US: SEC published its 2025 priorities
10/01/2025
On October 21, 2024, the Division of Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its examination priorities for fiscal year 2025 (which started October 1, 2024).
Over the course of 2025, the SEC intends for its examinations to focus on the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, complex products, cybersecurity, outsourcing, private fund advisers, and compliance with new and amended SEC rules, such as the recent amendments to Regulation S-P (about confidentiality and protection of financial and customer information) and SEC rule changes relating to the securities industry’s transition to a T+1 standard settlement cycle for most securities transactions.