The Council of Institutional Investors provided the SEC with feedback on its semiannual regulatory agenda with a focus on investor protection, corporate disclosure, and market systems and structure.
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The SEC Office of the Investor Advocate set forth its priorities for protecting and promoting the interests of retail investors in its annual report on objectives for the coming fiscal year.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) introduced amendments to the securities laws as part of an omnibus spending bill, two of which freeze certain SEC proxy rulemaking initiatives.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposed a pro-growth legislative and regulatory agenda for the next administration. The recommendations were designed, in part, to strengthen and enhance capital market formation.
SEC Commissioner Piwowar delivered remarks to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, focusing on a broad range of topics, particularly: (i) priorities for the SEC and (ii) the intrusion of other political interests into the mission of the SEC and (iii) the relationship between the SEC and other regulators, particularly FSOC. Priorities for the SEC: Commissioner Piwowar described five areas that should be the focus of the SEC's efforts to advance its core mission: engage in a comprehensive multi-year review of equity market structure which would consider the effects of high-frequency and algorithmic