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Carl Ayers

Carl Ayers Carl Ayers, Publisher | 202-908-6194 | cayers@regcompliancewatch.com Carl has been the publisher of Regulatory Compliance Watch since 2008. He has won several national journalism awards, including for investigative reporting. In 2018, Ayers won two awards - a second place award for Best Spot News for a story reporting Form ADV developments ahead of the SEC (IA Watch, July 6, 2017), and a third place award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series on an adviser that initially fought SEC charges (IA Watch, July 27, 2017). He has worked at newspapers, in television news and in healthcare journalism. Carl hails from New Jersey, earned his master's degree from Northwestern University and enjoys playing guitar, working out and pursuing golf.
The adviser followed the rules and disclosed a conflict and compensation on Form ADV that it received from a clearing broker. However, the adviser failed ...
Include in your definition of personally identifiable information any “security code, access code or password that would permit access to an individual’s financial account.”   ...
This week, the CFA Institute’s executive body will weigh a proposal to change the GIPS’ rules to accept a mutual fund’s existing regulatory disclosures as ...
Sending routine account notices should be, well, routine. But programming errors and supervisory glitches can trump the best of intentions. And it will cost you. ...
FINRA’s exam priorities letter could not be clearer: “Protecting senior investors will remain a top priority in 2017.”  But a series of recent enforcement cases ...
This report from 2017 is reproduced here with permission of the Association for Corporate Growth. This 35-page report covers hot compliance issues along with recommended ...
Click here to open a Word file that is a memo designed to educate staff about cybersecurity.
The Federal Register has published the Labor Department’s 8-page proposed rule that would move its fiduciary duty rule’s applicability date to June 9th from April ...
You’d think they’d want to crow about their accomplishment. One week out from the SEC’s three updates about its custody rule (IA Watch, Feb. 23, ...
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