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from The Advisor's Professional Library- The Few and the Proud: Chief Compliance Officers CCOs make significant contributions to success of an RIA, designing and implementing compliance programs that prevent, detect and correct securities law violations. When major compliance problems occur at firms, CCOs will likely receive regulatory consequences.
- Client Communication and Miscommunication RIA policies and procedures must specify what type of communications should be retained. The safest course of action is for RIAs to retain all communications—to clients, from clients, and about client accounts. To comply with fiduciary obligations, communications must be thorough and not mislead.
Senate Republicans are urging regulators to slow down implementation of Dodd-Frank by extending the comment periods on their rule proposals and conducting more “rigorous” analysis on those rules—including one on putting brokers under a fiduciary standard of care.
As Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee conducts his first hearing on Thursday on regulators’ implementation of Dodd-Frank, Senate Republicans sent a letter on Tuesday to all the top regulators asking that they “not sacrifice quality and fairness in exchange for speed,” in fulfilling their statutory mandate under Dodd-Frank.
The letter was sent to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro; Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC); and John Walsh, acting director of the Comptroller of the Currency.
The Republican Senators, including Richard Shelby, R-Ala., ranking minority member on the committee, and Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, asked regulators to extend their comment periods on proposed rules under Dodd-Frank from 40 days to 60.
The Senators pointed to the request for a more rigorous economic analysis raised by SEC Commissioners Kathleen Casey and Troy Paredes in the SEC’s study under Section 913 of Dodd-Frank, regarding putting brokers under a fiduciary standard of care.
