{"id":7983,"date":"2025-12-03T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:33:55","slug":"chairman-atkins-speech-revitalizing-americas-markets-at-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/chairman-atkins-speech-revitalizing-americas-markets-at-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Atkins\u2019 Speech \u2013 \u201cRevitalizing America\u2019s Markets at 250\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On December 2, 2025, SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins delivered a speech at the New York Stock Exchange titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/newsroom\/speeches-statements\/atkins-120225-revitalizing-americas-markets-250\">Revitalizing America\u2019s Markets at 250<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 In his speech he discusses the history of our country and capital markets, addressees the impact of disclosure regulation, and enumerates possible disclosure reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one section of his remarks Chairman Atkins states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cOver the years, and particularly over the past two decades, special interest groups, politicians, and\u2014at times\u2014the SEC itself have weaponized the disclosure regime that Congress created for our marketplace, in an effort to advance social and political agendas that stray far from the SEC\u2019s mission of facilitating capital formation; protecting investors; and ensuring fair, orderly, and efficient markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cOne of my priorities as Chairman is to reform the SEC\u2019s disclosure rules with two goals in mind. First, the SEC must root its disclosure requirements in the concept of financial materiality. Second, these requirements must scale with a company\u2019s size and maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He then outlines areas for possible reform, including simplifying executive compensation disclosures, scaling disclosure rules based on company size, and expanding the IPO on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 2, 2025, SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins delivered a speech at the New York Stock Exchange titled \u201cRevitalizing America\u2019s Markets at 250.\u201d\u00a0 In his speech he discusses the history of our country and capital markets, addressees the impact of disclosure regulation, and enumerates possible disclosure reforms. In one section of his remarks Chairman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/chairman-atkins-speech-revitalizing-americas-markets-at-250\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chairman Atkins\u2019 Speech \u2013 \u201cRevitalizing America\u2019s Markets at 250\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[143,256],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topic","category-sec-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}