Securities Litigation

In an address Friday at the 44th annual "SEC Speaks" conference, SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar suggested that the Securities Exchange Commission might do well to apply its own rules to itself. He suggested the Commission might best build on its 2014 accomplishments by "apply[ing] the same objective that we have for the markets we regulate - that they fair, orderly, and efficient - to ourselves." Addressing "fairness," Piwowar suggested the agency must not engage in rulemaking by enforcement or exam findings and "must resist the temptation to include undertakings in ...