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On July 16, 2026, the SEC proposed Regulation E-Delivery (“Reg E-Delivery”), a new rule that would establish a comprehensive framework permitting, but not requiring, electronic delivery (“e-delivery”) as the default method for providing required disclosures and reports under the federal securities laws.
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Recently, some large financial institutions, including intermediaries, wrap sponsors, and broker-dealers that hire outside advisers for their clients, have specified that advisers who use their platforms need better, higher-level accessibility conformance on Part 2 of their Form ADV PDFs and on Form CRS.
On February 6, 2026, the SEC announced that starting on March 16, 2026, EDGAR will suspend filings rather than issue warnings for incorrect or incomplete structured filing fee-related information for all filers, consistent with the Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization Final Rule.
The SEC adopted amendments to Reg S-P requiring broker-dealers, investment companies, registered investment advisors, and transfer agents to implement and maintain policies and procedures regarding an incident response program designed to detect, respond, and recover from unwarranted access or use of client information.
In the first quarter of 2025, firms were ready to comply with the new Rule 13f-2, which required monitoring short positions and filing Form SHO to report on certain short activity. The first Form SHO filing was set to be due on Valentine’s Day 2025, but the SEC pushed back the deadline to February 17, 2026. The question for 2026 is: Will Form SHO be delayed again?