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SEC Chair Gensler Supports Final Rules on Beneficial Ownership

Reynolds Holding

In 1968, in the wake of abuses in the 1960s in the mergers and acquisitions field, Congress passed an important law known as the Williams Act. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress gave the SEC the authority to shorten the beneficial ownership reporting deadline. Today’s adoption makes use of that Dodd-Frank authority.

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We Need to Move Beyond Profit Maximization to Plural Business Purposes

Reynolds Holding

Ideocracies use political power to enforce ideological truth, rather than to rely, as do more open democratic societies, on “the force of the better argument” (Jürgen Habermas) or a “marketplace of ideas” (Oliver Wendell Holmes). Jensen and William H. On Habermas, see Robert E. 28] Orts, Business Persons , op.

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Commissioner Peirce Blasts SEC for Lack of Public Engagement

Reynolds Holding

Jack Katz, who served for two decades as Secretary of the SEC and is being honored tonight with the William O. The poet Mary Oliver, who, as I did, grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, wrote beautifully about a cricket on a hillside. 15] Mary Oliver, Song of the Builders , Why I Wake Early: New Poems, 60 (2005). 13] Roberta S.

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SEC Chair Speaks About Proposed Rules on Money Market Funds, Customer Protection

Reynolds Holding

I’d like to thank the members of the SEC staff who worked on these final rules, including: William Birdthistle, Sarah ten Siethoff, Brian M. Congress gave us authority to adopt this key protection as part of the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 (SIPA). That benefits investors.

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SEC Chair Gensler on Proposed Rules for U.S. Treasuries Clearing

Reynolds Holding

These tremors led Congress in 1986 to add clearinghouses for Treasury securities to our mandate, just over a decade after in 1975 Congress gave the SEC authority over clearinghouses for stocks, bonds, and certain other securities. Congress appreciated the benefits of clearinghouses when it took these steps.

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SEC Chair Speaks on AI, Finance, Movies, and the Law

Reynolds Holding

That year also saw YLS faculty member William O. You get to research whether Rob and I are more like Lindsay Lohan as Hallie and Annie in the Parent Trap [30] or James and Oliver Phelps who played the Weasley twins in Harry Potter. [31] 4] See William O. To the faculty in the room, how do you feel about this show of hands?

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