Trump Proposes Revoking SEC’s Decades-Old Pay-to-Play Rule
The proposal would end a 1994 anti-corruption rule that has limited advisers’ campaign contributions and drawn praise from watchdog groups.
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Trump’s SEC Moves To Rescind Private Equity Pay-To-Play Rule, Increasing Public Corruption Concerns
Trump administration is moving to scrap a rule intended to prevent private equity firms from bribing public officials following a series of pay-to-play scandals.
Trump Proposes Revoking SEC’s Decades-Old Pay-to-Play Rule
President Donald Trump and his recently appointed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Aitkins are proposing to rescind the pay-to-play rule. The rule prohibits investment advisers and their officers from making or soliciting campaign contributions above a small threshold to government officials responsible for awarding investment contracts to those advisers for two years prior or during the contracting period. Craig Holman, Ph.D.,…
SEC Proposed Rescinding the Advisers Act Pay-to-Play Rule:
HedgeCo.Net — On September 3, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-5—the federal “pay-to-play” rule that generally prohibits an investment adviser from receiving compensation for advising a government client for two years after certain political contributions—and to strip related recordkeeping provisions. The SEC’s release said fraud prohibitions, fiduciary duties, the compliance rule, and the…
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