Well, the Compliance Week 2010 conference is now done. The event was excellent, and credit belongs to all the attendees, speakers, and helpers who altogether made our 2010 conference the largest and most successful we’ve ever had. We have extensive coverage of the event in this month’s magazine, but let me also share a few thoughts here.
Victory for non-accelerated filers? The most surprising news to come out of the conference happened while I was interviewing U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, about what final regulatory reform legislation might come out of Congress. I asked him whether the bill will include a provision exempting small public companies from compliance with Section 404(b) of Sarbanes-Oxley. As of press time, the House bill does include such a provision, the Senate’s does not.
