An SEC final rule amending federal proxy rules to allow voting by proxy for a preferred combination of board candidates in contested elections will go into effect on January 31, 2022.

An SEC accounting bulletin, which provides guidelines as to how companies should disclose and account for "spring-loaded awards" granted as compensation to executives, went into effect on December 1, 2021.

Comments on an SEC proposal to amend broker-dealer and security-based swap dealer electronic recordkeeping requirements are due by January 3, 2022.

Refinitiv, the vendor selected by the Alternative References Rates Committee to publish spread-adjusted rates for cash products, launched production-ready fallback rates that are available for immediate use on institutional cash products.