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A no-action letter is a letter written by the staff members of a government agency, requested by an entity subject to regulation by that agency, indicating that the staff will not recommend that the agency take legal action against the entity, should the entity engage in a course of action proposed by the entity through its request for a no-action letter.
The name "Wells notice" is derived from the Wells Committee of the SEC which proposed this process in 1972. This SEC committee was named after John A. Wells, its chair. [5] The other members of the committee were former SEC Chairmen Manuel F. Cohen and Ralph Demmler. [6] Among the recommendations made by the committee was the following:
No-action letters are letters by the SEC staff indicating that the staff will not recommend to the commission that the SEC undertake enforcement action against a person or company if that entity engages in a particular action. These letters are sent in response to requests made when the legal status of an activity is not clear.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is sending an open letter to U.S. public companies asking that firms evaluate their disclosure obligations with "specific tailored disclosure" about how ...
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However, the CFTC in its no-action letters did not grant relief for SEFs from the October 2, 2013 deadline requiring swap trading venues to register. The CFTC regulations further require SEF's to report certain data arising from the execution of a swap to a swap data repository either for real-time public dissemination or confidential ...
Two commissioners have stated that even if the letters provide a defense in private securities litigation, that they are not a defense in an SEC enforcement action. [ 2 ] Even more controversial than the letters themselves is the practice of buying securities subject to a big boy letter and then reselling the securities to a third party without ...
The SEC filing is a financial statement or other formal document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Public companies , certain insiders, and broker-dealers are required to make regular SEC filings.