Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler says hedge funds must face closer scrutiny following the recent turmoil in US government bonds, according to a story by the Financial Times.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced sweeping new rules governing the fees charged by alternative investment managers including hedge funds, according to a report by Fund Selector Asia.

The US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed changes to the current Form PF reporting regime which would force hedge funds and private equity funds to report large investment losses or redemptions more frequently.

The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering proposals to tighten the disclosure deadline for hedge funds that hold significant shares in companies, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Hedge funds and other institutional investors are monitoring activity by groups of retail investors on social media-style platforms such as Reddit, according to a report in Financial News (FN).

BlackRock is one of number of asset managers and hedge funds said to be opposed to the SEC's proposed reform of US securities lending laws, according to a report in The Financial Times.

The European Commission has decided that The Bahamas should be deleted from the EU’s anti-money laundering (AML) blacklist.

AIMA and the ACC strongly support the reform of the European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) regime introduced in November by the European Commission and have published a position paper that details further refinements of the proposals.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against JP Morgan Chase Bank, JP Morgan Securities , and JP Morgan Securities plc (collectively, JPMorgan), for failing to maintain, preserve, and produce records that were required to be kept under CFTC recordkeeping requirements, and failing to diligently supervise matters related to its businesses as CFTC registrants.  

GAM Holding AG’s UK subsidiary, GAM International Management Limited (GIML), has reached a GBP9.1 million settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), over the operation of GIML's conflicts of interest framework between November 2014 and October 2017 and conflicts of interest arising out of three specific investments made by the Absolute Return Bond Fund (ARBF) team between October 2016 and March 2018.