The New York State Common Retirement Fund says that it has convinced five major companies to disclose more information about their political spending. Sands, VeriSign, Royal Caribbean Cruises, The Progressive and Ulta Beauty all agreed to post their political contribution policies and an annual or semiannual political contributions disclosure report to their websites, the fund reports.

The Biden Administration on June 22 published its Spring 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which reports on the actions administrative agencies plan to issue in the near and long term. The “Reg Flex” agenda provides some clues about when the SEC might act on its own ambitious rulemaking list.

Two days after Republican lawmakers wrote to SEC Chair Gary Gensler criticizing the SEC’s proposed climate disclosure rules, Democratic senators fired back with letters urging Gensler to finalize the rules and suggesting improvements to various provisions in them.

Registration is now open for the CII fall conference, set for Wednesday, September 21, to Friday, September 23, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston! Members who pay a fee to attend the conference may take advantage of early bird rates through July 31.