{"id":1265,"date":"2022-06-06T17:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:51:47","slug":"electronic-signature-policies-and-procedures-for-ias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/electronic-signature-policies-and-procedures-for-ias\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Signature Policies and Procedures for IAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black;\">The SEC has begun examining investment advisers to evaluate their practices around the use and authentication of electronic signatures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black;\">The focus is on ensuring that advisory firms have policies and procedures designed to ensure that electronic signatures are not being exploited to perpetrate fraud that could harm advisory clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; 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--artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; cursor: text; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black;\">Among other things, the staff has requested information pertaining to (a) the types of documents that firms allow to be electronically signed; (b) a firm\u2019s procedures for authenticating changes to clients\u2019 contact information (including email addresses); and (c) a firm\u2019s controls \u00a0addressing how a client is authenticated for electronic signatures and how the firm prevents unauthorized changes to this information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); --artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; cursor: text; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); --artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; cursor: text; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black;\">Advisers utilizing electronic signatures should ensure that their policies and procedures address such issues to minimize the likelihood of identity theft and fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); --artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; 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widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; cursor: text; word-spacing: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6939621808421691394\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC has begun examining investment advisers to evaluate their practices around the use and authentication of electronic signatures.\u00a0\u00a0The focus is on ensuring that advisory firms have policies and procedures designed to ensure that electronic signatures are not being exploited to perpetrate fraud that could harm advisory clients. \u00a0 Among other things, the staff has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/electronic-signature-policies-and-procedures-for-ias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electronic Signature Policies and Procedures for IAs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulatory","category-standard-of-care"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}