On January 11, the SECs Office of Compliance Inspections as well as Examinations released its Examination Priorities for 2016. The assessment top priorities, which deal with problems throughout a range of economic establishments, consist of (i) shielding retail financiers, consisting of those preparing for retired life, by taking on assessments to assess exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and also ETF methods, variable annuity referrals and also disclosure, and also possible problems and also threats including advisors to public pension plan funds; (ii) examining market-wide dangers by, amongst various other point, proceeding to concentrate on cybersecurity controls at broker-dealers and also financial investment advisors; and also (iii) making use of boosted information analytics to analyze anti-money laundering conformity, discover microcap fraudulence, and also total evaluations of extreme trading.