Airbnb Tempts Clayton with Stock Proposal
Here’s something you might be concerned about if you run a “sharing economy” business like Airbnb or Uber: payments to people who earn income fr...
SEC Makes Belated Call for Cyber-risk Disclosures
In the history of computing, the year 2011 was a different era entirely. The Facebook “Wall” was still a thing (as was Google Buzz), IBM’s Watso...
Spotify Tests SEC Patience with Dual-Class Shares for Stock Offering
Spotify is planning a stock offering in a couple of months, and it appears that the music streaming service’s co-founders are taking their cues from...
SEC Puts Budget Where Its Mouth Is on Retail Enforcement
For the last eight months, the SEC has talked a big game on retail investors. With remarkable consistency, Chairman Jay Clayton returns in his public ...
SEC Dangles Arbitration as Latest IPO-Bait
From the moment he took the helm as SEC chairman last summer, Jay Clayton voiced a desire to reverse the long-term decline in IPOs. (Since reaching 94...
Five-Member SEC Complicates Fiduciary Rule
Finally, the SEC is whole again. The agency reached a full complement of five commissioners with this month’s swearing in of Robert Jackson (D), who...