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: FinancialCounselSEC Chairman's Speech Highlights Key Securities Initiatives And Reforms
By James Eccleston
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro's recent speech to the securities industry, entitled, "The Road to Investor Confidence," certainly was not designed to win over friends from Wall Street. Prefacing her remarks by blaming Wall Street for the "recent crisis" (it didn't understand or simply ignored the risks) and by blaming the SEC (for being asleep at the wheel), she described how the SEC is going about restoring investor confidence and protection. Let's review the more important initiatives and reforms.

Full post as published by FinancialCounsel on November 12, 2009 (boomark / email).
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