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Our expert team keeps up on the latest filings from the SEC, FINRA, and the IRS to ensure our clients can efficiently minimize costs and risks while simultaneously maximizing reporting accuracy.
Our expert team keeps up on the latest filings from the SEC, FINRA, and the IRS to ensure our clients can efficiently minimize costs and risks while simultaneously maximizing reporting accuracy.
The government continues to address the concerns of small businesses who have borrowed money through the SBA-backed Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
New guidance released over the holiday weekend offered more clarity about the conditions for loan forgiveness, while the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill to provide more flexibility for borrowers.
This week the SBA eased PPP loan concerns through much-needed guidance. The SBA stated it would trust borrowers of less than $2 million if they stated that they needed the funding as a result of the “current economic uncertainty.”
All ACI clients who applied for a PPP loan were below the $2 million threshold, so this should mitigate the immediate concern about the potential for an SBA audit on the horizon.
The SBA-backed Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) reopened on April 27, 2020 with $320 billion in additional funding.
More than 75% of ACI’s clients who have applied under PPP have obtained official SBA loan numbers this past week.
FINRA Notice 15-47
/in Regulatory Updates/by Jay GettenbergSummary Implementation Date: May 23, 2016 The SEC approved amendments to the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) rules to require an indicator when the TRACE report does not reflect a commission or mark-up/mark-down. The implementation date for these amendments is May 23, 2016. The amended rule text is available in the online FINRA Manual. […]
FINRA Notice 15-46
/in Regulatory Updates/by Jay GettenbergSummary November 2015 In light of the increasingly automated market for equity securities and standardized options, and recent advances in trading technology and communications in the fixed income markets, FINRA is issuing this Notice to reiterate the best execution obligations that apply when firms receive, handle, route or execute customer orders in equities, options and […]
FINRA Notice 15-45
/in Regulatory Updates/by Jay GettenbergSummary Implementation Date: January 4, 2016 The SEC recently approved FINRA’s proposal to establish a registration category and qualification examination requirement for Securities Traders and Securities Trader Principals.1 This Notice provides firms with information regarding the Securities Trader registration category and qualification examination (Series 57), Securities Trader Principal registration category, Series 57 examination fee and […]
FINRA Notice 15-44
/in Regulatory Updates/by Jay GettenbergSummary Effective Date: November 1, 2017 FINRA and the other U.S. members of the Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG members)1 have extended the effective date for compliance with certain data elements for Electronic Blue Sheets (EBS) identified in Regulatory Notice 13-38 to November 1, 2017. FINRA and the other ISG members are extending the effective date […]