As I noted last week, President-Elect Donald Trump has indicated his intent to name former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC Chair in the upcoming new administration. Atkins’s appointment, as I noted in last week’s post, could mean significant changes to the agency’s regulatory approach and enforcement priorities. Observers and commentators have continued to weigh in on the potential implications of Atkins’s appointment, and, as discussed below, academic commentators have tried to emphasize the importance of monitoring the agency closely under the new administration to ensure that it continues to be able to fulfill its traditional mission.Continue Reading More About the SEC Under the Incoming Presidential Administration
The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has – nearly two years overdue – finally published its long awaited report to Congress on its recommendations for the modernization of insurance regulation in the United States. The broadly ranging 65-page report identifies limitations in the current state-based regulatory model but does not recommend that federal regulation should displace state
On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (of the JOBS Act as it is more popularly known). President Obama is expected to sign the Act shortly. The Act is intended to facilitate capital-raising by reducing regulatory burdens. The Act also introduces changes designed to ease the
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In our era, the burgeoning 
My weekend reading over the Memorial Day holiday included a hefty selection from the stack of law firm memos that accumulated in my inbox in recent weeks. Many of the most recent memos related to the Senate’s passage of its version of the financial reform legislation, but the memos also reflected a variety of other
One consequence of the current economic crisis that has long seemed inevitable is some form of legislative overhaul of the financial regulatory system. This possibility may have taken one step toward realization with the October 1 release of a package of legislative proposals by Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman 
Do private securities lawsuits play an important role in deterring fraud and compensating defrauded investors, or are they simply wasteful and ineffective? These were the questions that on October 23, 2008 Stanford Law School Professor 
The intervening subprime meltdown makes it seem longer ago than it really was, but it was only a short time ago that regulatory reform was a very hot topic (as noted, for example, 