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25 Mar 2012, 10:00 am by David Feldman
As we know SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro has opposed a number of aspects of the bill, as have some liberal lawmakers, but the bill did pass in an overwhelmingly bipartisan way in the Congress. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 9:23 pm
Senator John Cornyn from Texas and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) recently wrote a letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro calling on the federal regulator to go easy on a proposal mandating enhanced disclosures from such issuers. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:24 pm
Earlier this month, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro wrote a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) over her concerns that modifications needed to be made to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act to make sure that investor protections are enhanced. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 6:27 am by David Feldman
Thanks to my friend Lee Liebolt, I obtained a copy of a (publicly available) letter that SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro sent to the leaders of the Senate committee pondering passing the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act, already passed in the House (see prior entries). [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 7:27 pm by Ted Allen
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, Commissioner Luis Aguilar, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, the CFA Institute, the Consumer Federation of America, and the AFL-CIO are among those who have raised concerns about the broad reach of the House legislation. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 4:45 am by Doug Cornelius
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, Elisse Walter and Daniel Gallagher recused themselves for unexplained reason. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 11:03 am by admin
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee, said the commission is “very carefully reviewing” the comment letters received in response to the rulemaking, “and rethinking how we should approach the statutory requirement. [read post]
Prompted by a series of letters in the spring of 2011 between Rep Darrell E. lssa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Mary L. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 7:17 am by Doug Cornelius
SEC Chair Schapiro Urges Senate to Include Additional Investor Protections in House-Passed JOBS Act in Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities Regulation In a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Johnson (D-SD)and Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sec Chair Mary Schapiro said that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, HR 3606, passed by the House would weaken investor protections by, for example, exempting emerging growth companies from the internal… [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 4:36 pm
Batting away criticism that many of the Security and Exchange Commission’s enforcement actions for fiscal year 2011 were actually follow-on administrative proceedings and not new actions, Chairman Mary Schapiro stood by the agency’s record. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 2:58 pm by James Hamilton
In a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Johnson (D-SD)and Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sec Chair Mary Schapiro said that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, HR 3606, passed by the House would weaken investor protections by, for example, exempting emerging growth companies from the internal control auditor attestation provisions of Section 404(b) of Sarbanes-Oxley. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 9:53 am by William McGrath
As discussed here, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro was one those who made the trip to the Hill, appearing before the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on March 6, 2012 in support of the Administration's budget request for the SEC for the 2013 fiscal year. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 9:10 am by velvel
Even Chairman, Chairwoman Mary Schapiro expressed surprise as the initiation of the baseless lawsuit. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 10:34 am by Steve Bainbridge
 In a letter addressed to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, the lawmakers said that CEO pay has “skyrocketed,” while that for ordinary workers has “stagnated. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 1:38 am
In early March, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro stated that she was hopeful that the rule would be finalized in the "next couple of months. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 12:11 pm by William McGrath
On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro appeared before the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government to testify in support of the Administration's budget request for the SEC for the 2013 fiscal year. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 10:20 am by James Hamilton
The House has passed by an overwhelming bi-partisan vote of 390-23 legislation creating an on ramp for companies to go public, authorizing crowdfunding, reforming Regulations D and A, and raising the 500-shareholder threshold for private companies and community banks. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 1:00 pm by Tamar Weinrib
”  To read SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro’s testimony before the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations United States House of Representatives, click here. [read post]