September 12, 2025
After a decade in compliance, you start to notice the same rhythms: quarter-end scrambles, brokerage feeds that don’t quite connect, the email from someone insisting they already submitted their attestation. But you […]
July 7, 2025
Introduction: When A Routine Release Signals Structural Change SEC data releases are rarely splashy. Written in neutral tones, stripped of commentary, and often dropped mid-week with little amplification, they’re not designed […]
June 17, 2025
You’re probably reading this article because someone (maybe the CCO, maybe your future self) said the words: “We need to audit our compliance program.” And now it’s your job to figure out […]
May 28, 2025
The SEC’s 2024 enforcement numbers were never going to tell the whole story. Yes, the agency brought 26% fewer cases than the year before; but no one paying attention would call this […]
May 22, 2025
The most valuable signal in compliance isn’t always what’s new; it’s what keeps showing up. That’s what makes FINRA’s 2025 Oversight Report so revealing. Underneath the new headlines (third-party risks, complex annuities, […]
May 15, 2025
When a city works well, you don’t notice. You step off the curb, and a car stops. You find shade on a hot street. Trash disappears. The lights turn red, and strangers […]
April 3, 2025
Introduction: An Industry on the Move FutureProof Citywide 2025 brought the RIA community face-to-face with the pace of its own transformation. The conversations pulsing through the boardwalk in Miami Beach were […]
March 26, 2025
If you want to understand where compliance is headed, follow the crowd to Washington, D.C. – or more specifically, to the IAA Compliance Conference at the Marriott Marquis. In 2025, it wasn’t […]
February 27, 2025
Records Rule the World: Why Compliance Starts (and Ends) With Documentation As pretentious as it might sound, history is written by those who keep the records. Contracts carved into Mesopotamian clay […]
