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Steven Lofchie

@Stevenlofchie
#NortonRoseFulbright partner. Founder of #USRegulatoryIntelligence & newsletter, first ranked in Chambers, twice named best NY FinReg lawyer. #FinReg
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    Steven Lofchie
    @Stevenlofchie
    Mar 27, 2025
    With a diatribe against Paul Atkins, the nominee-to- be SEC Chair, that runs 34 pages and contains 196 footnotes, Senator Warren demonstrates that within her still beats the heart of an academic. However, her arguments are badly stretched (apparently, she thinks he caused the
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    Steven Lofchie
    @Stevenlofchie
    Mar 24, 2025
    Commissioner Crenshaw trivializes the new SEC guidance on whether crypto mining is a securities activity by pointing out that its application to mining activities is subject to a "limitation: one actually would have to conduct a Howey [test] analysis to know if a specific mining
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    Steven Lofchie
    @Stevenlofchie
    Mar 24, 2025
    There is no area of financial regulation that is so in need of reduced regulation as that governing of the production of investment research. Investment research, which is a necessity for strong capital markets, has been treated by the SEC and FINRA as an inherently suspect
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    Steven Lofchie
    @Stevenlofchie
    Mar 18, 2025
    That FINRA has revived work (which had been dormant for over six years) on simplifying its rules governing the outside employees of broker-dealers is reflective of the general policy of the Trump Administration to simplify regulation. That policy is impacting not only
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    Steven Lofchie
    @Stevenlofchie
    Mar 14, 2025
    Ordinarily, when a regulator states that it intends to "modernize" rules, that means it intends to adopt more (and more burdensome) rules. Under the new administration, the world is turned upside down. It is actually reasonable to expect that FINRA will consider where burdens
    Laptop with a checklist on it.