As new rules and regulations are adopted and the regulatory landscape evolves your compliance programme must keep pace or risk leaving your firm exposed.
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In additional to ongoing compliance manual maintenance support, our ACA compliance cycle management team can assist you with a range of topical compliance challenges, including:
AIFMD Consulting & Support
Drafting of your documentation, policies, procedures and controls for AIFMD impacted EEA-based investment managers of alternative investment funds, and also non-EEA advisers who wish to market such funds into the EEA.
Stay on top of financial crimes-related threats and regulatory concerns with AML consulting support. We can support with independent testing and risk management, as well as, development of AML, KYC/CDD, FCPA and anti-bribery, and cybersecurity policies and procedures.
Updating of policies, procedures and compliance manuals for firms with a UK-based presence, reflecting new rules and regulations following the exit of the UK from the European Union.
Policy and procedure development and program management including carbon footprinting, climate risk scenario analysis, net-zero management, DEI baselining and training, portfolio performance assessment, reporting (UN PRI, TCFD, SFDR), and marketing and disclosures reviews.
FCA Marketing Abuse Regulation (MAR) Solutions
Focused and cost-effective assessment of your firm’s policies, procedures, monitoring program, surveillance techniques, and controls environment. Our ACA compliance cycle management services can also provide a deep-dive review, benchmarking, and testing of your firm’s market abuse arrangements.
LIBOR
Assistance in devising your LIBOR transition plans, assessing and reviewing your firm’s reliance and usage of LIBOR, or performing a gap analysis review of your transition work to date.
Our investment company team will help you to navigate the SEC’s liquidity risk management program rule through educational resources and alerts, benchmarking insight, help with program management and development of policies and procedures, annual assessments.
MiFID II Consulting & Support
Our post-implementation review is designed to review, test and benchmark your MiFID II program to identify gaps and reduce your regulatory risk for compliance enhancement.
Our prudential team are on-hand to help provide regulatory oversight of your firm’s capital monitoring and forecasting, and regulatory reporting processes. This includes support with the upcoming Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR).
Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) and Form CRS
Our ACA compliance cycle management experts can help broker-dealers understand the compliance and operational issues presented by Reg BI as they relate to their retail business. Our consultants can assist in designing customized procedures that will detail the steps needed to address Reg BI’s requirements as they relate to your firm.
SM&CR Compliance Solutions
Post-implementation reviews of your documentation, framework and internal process, gap analysis, as well as senior manager and conduct rule training for compliance enhancement.
Policy and procedure development and thematic project support to help make sure your trade and transaction reporting is in line with MiFID/MIFIR and EMIR regulatory requirements.
On September 14, 2017, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued a National Exam Program Risk Alert related to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advertising Rule”). The risk alert highlights the compliance issues most commonly noted by the SEC’s examination staff as part of a recent “Touting Initiative.” That initiative, which consisted of reviews of approximately 70 investment advisers, focused on the use of “accolades” in advertising.
The amendments to Investment Advisers Act Rule 204-2 will require advisers to maintain additional records related to the calculation and distribution of performance information.
Communications record keeping obligations which include phone taping, are likely to prove particularly challenging when it comes to the cost of compliance and complexity of systems requirements.
The electronic communication mediums that investment advisers use to conduct business continue to evolve, posing a challenge to the compliance community’s ability to retain and adequately supervise
The SEC has been paying close attention to discrepancies in Form ADV filings, specifically reviewing assets under management. When Annual Updates are due, it’s important to pay close attention to how you calculate your regulatory assets under management (RAUM).
FINRA Rule 1250 requires registered persons to participate in Continuing Education (“CE”), with both Regulatory Element and Firm Element training. We break down these categories and how to differentiate them.
ACA Aponix Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary and National Cybersecurity Month. Reflecting on a decade of cybersecurity leadership, technological advancement, and industry recognition for financial services
ACA remembers and honors the life of Michael Lehman, the co-founder of Decryptex, now known as our Market Abuse Surveillance solution, a cornerstone of ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® platform today.
Join us on October 16, 2024, at 11:00 AM (ET) to hear from our experienced experts who examine outsourcing as a solution to help you face regulatory headwinds and tailwinds.