SEC Issues Final Rules on Electronic Submissions

November 18, 2020

The SEC has issued the following two final rules:

Electronic Signatures in Regulation S-T Rule 302, which allows “the use of electronic signatures when executing authentication documents in connection with many documents filed with the Commission.”
Amendments to the Commission's Rules of Practice, which requires “electronic filing and service of documents in administrative proceedings” as well as “redaction of sensitive personal information from many of these documents before filing with the Commission.”

For more information, see the press release on the SEC’s Web site.