- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Ian Sherr2024-11-21T20:09:00
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler said will step down from his position as the top U.S. regulator of Wall Street when Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Jan. 20, ending weeks of speculation about his future.
In a statement Thursday, Gensler said he would step down at noon on Jan. 20, 2025. Gensler’s move will close a tenure that began more than three years ago in the aftermath of the meme stock market battle between retail investors and hedge funds around the share price of retailer GameStop.
Gensler had presided over a combative period for the agency, including high-profile efforts to reform company stock buybacks and fund fee disclosures, both of which courts ultimately overturned. The SEC also lost a legal battle around cryptocurrency trading, leading the agency to approve spot bitcoin ETFs earlier this year.
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2024-12-04T20:36:00Z By Aly McDevitt
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to strengthen his ties to the crypto industry when he nominated a popular crypto advocate, Patomak Global Partners founder Paul Atkins, to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
2024-11-25T18:30:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Change is likely coming to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement priorities with the pending handover of the White House to Republican President-elect Donald Trump. Adjust your compliance priorities accordingly.
2024-11-22T14:17:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Dr. Mehmet Oz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has a mandate from Trump to “take on the illness industrial complex” and to cut costs.
2025-04-24T18:07:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has quickly become one of the most active agencies advancing the Trump administration’s pullback on prosecuting corporations, as it dropped yet another consumer protection lawsuit against a financial services company Wednesday.
2025-04-21T12:00:00Z By Neil Hodge
The United Kingdom’s latest effort to encourage regulators to pare down rules to attract companies and investment as a way to stimulate the economy has received mixed reviews from lawyers.
2025-04-18T14:01:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A federal judge has ruled that Google “willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts” in the advertising technology industry, the latest antitrust setback in what could become a string of losses for tech companies.
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