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Federal Reserve Board And Federal Open Market Committee Release Economic Projections From The December 14-15 FOMC Meeting

Date 15/12/2021

The attached tables and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants in conjunction with the December 14-15 meeting.
Dissenting Statement On Buybacks Disclosure Proposal, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

Thank you, Chair Gensler. Both dividends and share repurchases are ways companies return cash to shareholders. Yet, say “dividend,” and nobody gets angry, but say “share buyback,” and the rage boils over. Today’s proposal channels some of that rage against repurchases in a way that only a regulator can—through painfully granular, unnecessarily frequent disclosure obligations. This proposal requires daily repurchase disclosure to be furnished with the Commission one business day after execution. Because I do not support the indirect regulation of corporate activity through disclosure requirements, I respectfully dissent.
Standing Up The Security-Based Swap Regime: Statement On Proposed Rules For Antifraud, Position Reporting And CCO Support, SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

This year marks the thirteenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis and the 11th anniversary of the Dodd Frank Act. Title VII of Dodd-Frank, which established a new regulatory framework for swaps and security-based swaps, and was among the Act’s most significant reforms.
Statement On The PCAOB’s 2022 Budget, SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

The mission of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB or Board) is set forth directly in its enabling statute. It is to oversee audits “in order to protect the interests of investors.” Investor protection is not one of prong of the mission; it is the mission. It is the lens through which we gauge the Board’s success in its central endeavors – standard setting, inspections, and enforcement.
Enhancing Transparency Around Stock Buybacks: Statement On Corporate Share Repurchase Proposal, SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

In recent years, corporate share repurchases, or buybacks, have grown exponentially. Even amidst a relative slump in share repurchases in 2020, buybacks reached nearly $700 billion in volume. And interest in, and the need to understand, these share repurchases has grown accordingly. Today’s proposal would enhance transparency for investors and markets around share repurchases by requiring more detailed, timely, and structured disclosures.

Stock Trading Plans Should Prevent – Not Enable – Insider Trading: Statement On Proposed Amendments To Rule 10b5-1, Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

Working to keep markets fair by protecting against insider trading is one of the most fundamental jobs we have at the Commission. Enforcement in this area is key to our mission, but prophylactic measures designed to prevent the misconduct (rather than punish it after the fact) are vital. Because if companies and corporate insiders profit by trading on information that is available only to them, they not only disadvantage other shareholders, but also erode investor confidence and thereby undermine the integrity of our markets. So today’s proposal seeks to ensure our rules are operating as intended to prevent, rather than shield, trading on inside information and bolster investor confidence in our markets.
SEC Approves 2022 PCAOB Budget And Accounting Support Fee

Date 15/12/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to approve the 2022 budget of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the related annual accounting support fee.
PCAOB Budget Statement, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

Thank you, Chair Gensler. Welcome Acting Chairperson DesParte. I do not have any questions about the budget, but do have one admonition for you and the rest of the board installed last month by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Earlier this year, the Commission precipitously fired the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) chairman and told the three remaining board members that, if they wanted to finish out their terms (one of which had only just begun), they had to go through the application process all over again. Those actions incapacitated the PCAOB by leaving it with just one board member for a time. I voted to reinstate Mr. DesParte and install four new board members so the board could function. I intend to work with the new board to ensure that the PCAOB fulfills its statutory mandate of promoting informative, accurate, and independent audit reports for public companies and SEC-registered broker-dealers.
Statement On Proposed Money Market Fund Reforms, SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

Today, the Commission is once again proposing reforms for money market funds after once again observing vulnerability in these products during times of financial market stress -- this time during the events in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. The ‘dash for cash’ that occurred at that time put severe stress on these funds and prompted federal intervention in the form of a backstop for the second time in just over a decade.
Statement On Rule 10b5-1 And Insider Trading Proposing Release, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Dec. 15, 2021

Date 15/12/2021

Thank you, Chair Gensler. Given our many policy disagreements and—spoiler alert—my resulting dissents on various matters today, I was beginning to feel a bit like the Grinch this holiday season. Singing in Whoville on Christmas morning caused the Grinch’s heart to grow three sizes that day,[1] but it was my fellow Commissioners’ willingness to collaborate and engage on this release with the help of Renee Jones and her staff and Corey Klemmer on the Chair’s staff that won me over and led me to support this proposal.