SEC and FSA discuss common approaches to regulatory issues

Posted on September 17, 2009

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.K. Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced plans today "to explore common approaches to reporting and other regulatory requirements for key market participants such as hedge funds and their advisers." Specifically, the two regulators "agreed to identify a common, coherent set of data to collect from hedge fund advisers/managers" in order to help the regulators identify risks to their regulatory mandates and objectives. The announcement, subsequent to a meeting between the SEC and FSA, stated that discussions also included OTC markets and central clearing, accounting issues, regulatory reform, credit agency oversight, short selling and corporate governance and compensation practices. Today's release follows an announcement by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) yesterday that the CFTC had signed a memorandum of understanding with the FSA "to enhance cooperation and the exchange of information relating to the supervision of cross-border clearing organizations."

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