On February 7, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Municipal Securities (“OMS”) issued a staff legal bulletin discussing the applicability of the antifraud provisions of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the [...]
On January 27, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) released its report on cybersecurity and operational resiliency practices that OCIE has observed in its examinations of thousands of broker-dealers, investment [...]
On December 5, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives approved (by a vote of 410-13) H.R. 2534, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, to explicitly prohibit insider trading. The U.S. federal securities laws currently do [...]
On February 20, 2020, Murray Barnes Finister attended the Women In Public Finance - Georgia Chapter’s first Annual Meeting to hear Cynthia Robinson Alexander, J.D., MCRP, Executive Finance Director of the Board of [...]
We want to make sure that you are aware of SB 309. It creates a Georgia Municipal and Local Government Infrastructure Authority. The Authority will dramatically impact your involvement in your client’s bond issues. [...]