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📄Regulatory Update

The SEC has submitted a request for extension on Rule 17a-8, which regulates mergers of affiliated investment companies. The rule provides exemptions for certain transactions while imposing requirements for asset valuation and shareholder approvals, emphasizing governance and compliance responsibilities for funds engaging in mergers.

📈Compliance and Registration Requirements for Investment Companies

The SEC announces a request for an extension on Form N-8A, essential for investment company registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The form facilitates the notification of existence to the Commission, ensuring companies are subject to necessary regulations regarding their organizational structure and activities. Compliance is mandatory, and the document invites public comments on the information collection request.

📈SEC Notice on HarbourVest Investment Advisory Fee Exemption

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a notice regarding an application by HarbourVest Private Investments Fund and HarbourVest Registered Advisers L.P. seeking an exemption to permit the payment of investment advisory fees in common stock. The notice outlines the application process, additional contacts, and the implications of this potential regulatory change.

📈SEC Notice on Exemption for Investment Companies and Share Classes

This document details the SEC's notice regarding an application from AMG Comvest Senior Lending Fund and Comvest Credit Managers, LLC, seeking exemption under the Investment Company Act to permit closed-end management investment companies to issue various classes of shares with different fees. It outlines the application process and contacts for further information.

📊Withdrawal of Proposed Rule Change on Shareholder Meetings

The Securities and Exchange Commission formally acknowledged the withdrawal of a proposed rule change by Cboe BZX Exchange, which sought to exempt closed-end management investment companies from annual shareholder meeting requirements. This action underscores the complexities of regulatory compliance for investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

📜SBA Declares Licenses Null and Void for Plexus Investment Funds

⚖️SEC Notice on Co-Investment Order for Investment Companies

📊SEC Rule 482 Revisions

📄SEC Mandates Electronic Filing for Regulatory Compliance

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission" or "SEC") is amending its rules to require electronic filing or submission of certain forms and other filings or submissions that are required to be filed with or submitted to the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and the rules and regulations under the Exchange Act. The amendments require the electronic filing or submission on the Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval ("EDGAR") system, using structured data where appropriate, for certain forms filed or submitted by self- regulatory organizations ("SROs"). The amendments require the information currently contained in Form 19b-4(e) to be publicly posted on the SRO's website and remove the manual signature requirements for SRO proposed rule change filings. The Commission is also requiring that a clearing agency post supplemental material to its website. In addition, the Commission is amending rules under the Exchange Act and the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") to require the electronic filing or submission on EDGAR, using structured data where appropriate, of certain forms, reports, and notices provided by broker- dealers, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants. The amendments also require withdrawal in certain circumstances of notices filed in connection with an exception to counting certain dealing transactions toward determining whether a person is a security-based swap dealer. Finally, the Commission is allowing electronic signatures in certain broker-dealer filings, and amending the Financial and Operational Combined Uniform Single Report ("FOCUS Report") to harmonize with other rules, make technical corrections, and provide clarifications.

⚖️FinCEN Final Rule

FinCEN is publishing this final rule to reflect inflation adjustments to its civil monetary penalties as mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended. This rule adjusts certain maximum civil monetary penalties within the jurisdiction of FinCEN to the amounts required by that Act.