SEC adopts updated ethics rules for members and employees

Amended rules aim to strengthen and modernize the regulator’s ethics compliance program.

The agency said the amendments update the SEC’s “existing, robust ethics requirements that govern the securities holdings and transactions of all agency employees, their spouses, and minor children”. The rule was adopted jointly with the Office of Government Ethics, apply to SEC members and employees (and, in some cases, their

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