SEC Identifies 2021 Regulatory Priorities

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs identified the SEC's short- and long-term regulatory priorities in its Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.

The SEC will focus on the following areas:

• environmental, social and governance ("ESG") related disclosures, including those concerning climate risk, workforce and corporate board diversity, and cybersecurity risk;
• the market structure of equity, treasury and other fixed-income markets;
• the transparency of stock buybacks, short-sale disclosure, ownership of securities-based swaps ("SBS") and the stock loan market;
• investment fund rules, including those concerning money market, private and ESG funds;