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.