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2 More Officials Plan to Leave the S.E.C.

Source: Dealbook, Dec 5 2012, 1:06pm CST

Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesRobert W. Cook, the S.E.C.’s director of trading and markets, at a Senate panel earlier this year. Two top S.E.C. officials — Mark D. Cahn, the general counsel, and Robert W. Cook, the director of trading and markets — plan to lea ...

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13 hours ago

Obama nominates Senate aides to serve as SEC commissioners

Source: Thomson Reuters News & Insight  |   May 24 2013, 7:10am CDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama nominated two U.S. Senate aides on Thursday to serve as members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency tasked with policing Wall Street. Obama said Kara Stei ...

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22 hours ago

Obama Nominates 2 Senate Aides for S.E.C. Posts

Source: The New York Times  |   May 23 2013, 9:15pm CDT

President Obama continued his shake-up of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, naming two Senate aides to senior posts at the Wall Street regulatory agency. The nominees to the five-member agency are ...

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24 weeks ago


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"It has been a unique privilege to have worked at the commission during such an extraordinary period of change in the financial and regulatory arena"


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1 day ago

SEC should adopt Franken plan on credit ratings agencies

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   May 23 2013, 6:37pm CDT

A sensible, bipartisan solution to the conflicts of interest that too often arise between credit ratings agencies and the firms that hire them to judge their products should be adopted by the Securities and Exchange Com ...

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3 days ago

Naming Names in the Dodd Frank Mess

Source: The American Prospect  |   May 21 2013, 8:01am CDT

As we trudge through the swamp of disappointment that defines Dodd-Frank implementation, the liberal commentariat has lately seized upon a new meme; Wall Street lobbyists are responsible for gutting Dodd-Frank behind closed doors. Big-pocketed firms d ...

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4 days ago

SEC review of brokerages' use of arbitration not expected in 2013

Source: Thomson Reuters News & Insight  |   May 20 2013, 1:20am CDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street brokerages' use of mandatory arbitration clauses merits a regulatory review, but the Securities and Exchange Commission will not have time to undertake one before 2014, an SEC commissioner said on Monday. The agency w ...

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6 days ago

How your U.S. lawmaker voted

Source: The Seattle Times  |   May 18 2013, 6:39pm CDT

WASHINGTON — Here’s how the state’s members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Friday, May 17. By a vote of 235 for and 161 against, the House on Friday passed a bill (HR 1062) imposing time-consuming requirements on the Securities and ...

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