Congressional Activity

To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to amend its rules to modernize certain requirements relating ...

Our budget is simply not proportionate to the responsibilities we face. The President’s budget request would change that. This budget will give us the resources ...

As the SEC’s Division of Investment Management prepares a recommendation for the Commission to formally revise two advisers act rules in response to the Fast ...

The FAST Act revised the venture capital fund adviser exemption by deeming SBICs to be venture capital funds for purposes of the exemption. Because an ...

It may be hard to fathom politicians becoming frustrated with political answers but such was the scene at the March 15th hearing on SEC commissioner ...

You have to go back to 2014 to find the full complement of five commissioners at the CFTC. It will now be up to the ...

An increase in our budget is a wise and necessary investment for our economy. Our derivatives markets are the most robust, dynamic and innovative in ...

We are very grateful for the increases we have previously received. Our fiscal year 2015 budget provided us an increase of $35 million over the ...

The repeal of the indemnification requirement is one of many much-needed Dodd-Frank Act fixes identified by SEC staff as they have worked diligently to implement ...

I would like to highlight a few of the CFTC’s priorities that are particularly relevant to the FSOC. The first area is the implementation of ...