Tag: SEC
Investigate Piwowar?
by Cydney Posner Not everyone is pleased by the actions taken by Acting SEC Chair Michael Piwowar directing the SEC staff to review the conflict minerals and pay-ratio disclosure rules. In fact, today, four Senate Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee have called for an investigation into whether he has […]
Say farewell to the conflict minerals case, Nat’l Ass’n of Mfrs. v. SEC
by Cydney Posner The parties to the conflict minerals case have filed in the D.C. District Court a “Joint Status Report,” which requests that the Court enter a final judgment in accordance with the decision of the Court of Appeals. As a result, it will be case closed for National […]
Exhibits just one click away! (updated)
by Cydney Posner At an open meeting this morning, the SEC voted to adopt new rule and form amendments requiring that the exhibit index in registration statements and reports contain hyperlinks to the exhibits listed and that these filings all be made in HTML format. (The SEC also voted to […]
SEC votes to propose Inline XBRL (updated)
by Cydney Posner At an open meeting this morning, the SEC voted to propose the mandatory use of Inline XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) for financial statement information. The proposal is intended to facilitate “improvements in the quality and usefulness of XBRL data and, over time, decreas[e] filing costs by […]
Exhibits just one click away!
by Cydney Posner At an open meeting this morning, the SEC voted to adopt new rule and form amendments requiring that the exhibit index in registration statements and reports contain hyperlinks to the exhibits listed and that these filings all be made in HTML format. (The SEC also voted to […]
Will the SEC be instructed to waive any or all of the conflict minerals requirements on the basis of national security interests? (Updated)
by Cydney Posner Remember all the way back to last week when Acting SEC Chair Michael Piwowar issued two statements on the conflict minerals rules? (See this PubCo post.) Remember too that the first statement directed the staff to revisit the 2014 guidance from the director of corp fin regarding conflict […]
What to make of the latest Executive Order on financial regulation?
by Cydney Posner As reported all over the place, a new Executive Order has been signed directing the Secretary of the Treasury to consult with the heads of the member agencies of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (which includes the SEC) and report to the President within 120 days identifying […]
Acting SEC Chair to revisit 2014 guidance on conflict minerals rules
by Cydney Posner Yesterday, Acting SEC Chair Michael Piwowar issued two statements — available here and here — on the conflict minerals rules, neither of which is definitive, but which together make clear that further guidance on the rules is in the offing and that it may well involve some […]
In her final speech as SEC Chair, White identifies current trends assailing SEC independence
by Cydney Posner Mary Jo White took the occasion of her final speech as SEC Chair, presented to the Economic Club of New York, to discuss how to maintain the role of the SEC as an effective financial regulator and how the SEC can “continue as a strong independent agency […]
Likely interim SEC Chair spells out his priorities
by Cydney Posner According to this article in the WSJ, SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar, who will probably become acting Chair when current Chair Mary Jo White steps down this month, has agreed with fellow Commissioner Kara Stein about various rulemakings that they might pursue in the interim until nominee Jay […]
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