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The complexity of the SEC’s Custody Rule is not to be underestimated. Custody issues remain among the most common deficiencies cited during SEC exams, and even firms with strong compliance programs have had challenges interpreting and applying the different rule elements, No-Action letters, FAQs and Investment Management Guidance Updates. Based on our experience in the field, Ascendant has created a unique offering to help you better understand the Custody Rule and how it applies to your business – the Ascendant Custody Toolkit.
Our Ascendant Custody Toolkit will help you understand and document compliance with the key elements of the Custody Rule; identify accounts over which your firm has custody; identify available exceptions to certain requirements of the Rule based on industry guidance; manage a list of accounts to provide to an accountant for a surprise examination; and evidence your analysis for determining the information in Item 9 of your Form ADV Annual Updating.
The Toolkit includes:
- A robust, interactive Custody Questionnaire
- A Form ADV Worksheet template
- Aggregated library with links and references to underlying regulatory material
- And more
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Custody Concerns Continue
You timely filed your Form ADV within 90 days of fiscal year end, but did you properly answer all the questions related to custody? Not surprisingly, the Form remains confusing for many advisers, as does application of the Custody Rule itself. The SEC has issued guidance, letters to the industry, alerts and FAQs, but things … Continued
Blockchain Isn’t Hot Sauce
Guest post by Samson Williams, Partner – Axes & Eggs and Keynote Speaker – Ascendant CSS Spring 2019 Conference I started telling people that blockchain isn’t hot sauce in mid-2017 to help explain why initial coin offerings (ICOs) were just the latest form of unregulated, online gambling. In November 2017, with Bitcoin nearing a high … Continued
The Importance of Effective ADV Disclosure: Staying Ahead of the Regulators
This ComplianceCast will discuss how firms can mitigate risk by having effective disclosure in their Form ADV Brochure. Our panelists will be CSS Ascendant Senior Consultant Ariana Monchick and Jessica Matelis, Partner at Foley & Lardner and former Senior Counsel at the SEC Division of Enforcement. They will discuss: Required disclosures The types of conflicts … Continued
Regulation Best Interest, Cybersecurity Top Concerns at IAA 2019 Compliance Conference
The Investment Adviser Association (IAA) represents the interests of investment advisers in Washington D.C., and the IAA Investment Adviser Compliance Conference 2019 was a forum for the discussion of future potential rulemaking. Cybersecurity and Fiduciary Rule considerations were headline topics, with custody and marketing right behind. The following is a summary of key issues discussed … Continued
The Challenges of Building a Global Compliance Program
Compliance programs face challenges in balancing global requirements with local exceptions while incorporating the fast pace of regulatory change, addressing critical business needs and obtaining the necessary resources necessary to manage the program. Trends and thinking on the subject were center stage at the recent CSS London event “Looking at the Year Ahead – Global … Continued
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