The Metaverse

This episode highlights the metaverse, with commentary from Joseph Rotunda, Vice Chair of the North American Securities Administrators Association’s Enforcement Section Committee, and Director of the Texas State Securities Board Enforcement Division. Rotunda will describe what the metaverse is, discuss the risks of investing in the unregulated metaverse, and the role played by state and provincial securities regulators in protecting investors who invest in the metaverse.

Episode 18 features the latest episode of NASAA’s webcast series, NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents. It addresses the theme “Financial Services Industry Experts Speak.” In this recording, speakers from the financial services industry discuss how they work within their firms and with other stakeholders to mitigate vulnerable investor harm.

Episode 17 features the launch of NASAA’s new webcast series, "NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents." This webcast series was developed by NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee to provide an inclusive platform for learning from the best and brightest minds who will discuss issues that matter most to those dealing with at-risk investors.The webcast episode you’re about to hear featured the theme “Cognition, Problems and Solutions” and addressed new ways to better understand the brain and cognition. The presenters in this recording discussed how environment, age, gender, and other factors can impact an investor’s ability to make sound financial decisions and the steps to be taken to prevent financial exploitation.

16 focuses on NASAA’s 2022 Top Investor Threats. Joseph P. Borg, NASAA Co-Chair of the Enforcement Section Committee and Director of the Alabama Securities Commission, and Joseph Rotunda, NASAA Vice Chair of the Enforcement Section Committee and Director of the Texas State Securities Board Enforcement Division, will describe what these top threats are, and why all investors should be concerned.

This episode highlights NASAA's investor education efforts, with commentary from Tom Cotter, Co-chair of NASAA’s Investor Education Section Committee and Alberta Securities Commission Vice-Chair; and Jillian Lazar, Co-chair of NASAA's Investor Education Section Committee and Director of Investor Protection with the Delaware Department of Justice.

Chair of NASAA’s Regulation Best Interest Implementation Committee and Ohio Securities Commissioner Andrea Seidt discusses notable findings from NASAA's 2021 Reg BI Phase Two Report. The report announces the results of a nationwide survey conducted by state securities regulators that provides the first comprehensive look at broker-dealer industry policies and practices following the implementation of Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NASAA Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Chair and Washington State Department of Financial Institutions’ Licensing and Examination Supervisor Kristen Standifer describes what a trusted contact is and how it can help protect investors from fraud. She also describes NASAA’s recent joint announcement with the SEC and FINRA on trusted contacts, and how this collaborative works to protect all investors and their investments. 

This episode profiles current NASAA President and Maryland Securities Commissioner Melanie Senter Lubin.

This episode highlights the NASAA Model Whistleblower Award and Protection Act. Our conversation features Washington Chief of Registration & Regulatory Affairs Faith Anderson and Montana Deputy Securities Commissioner Lynne Egan.

This episode features a conversation with Michigan’s Examination and Licensing Manager Linda Cena about the IAR CE Model rule.