On November 20th, the SEC announced it will host a conference on December 4th entitled "The State of Our Securities Markets". This conference will bring together current and former government officials and experts from different areas of the private sector as it explores the ever-changing economic, risk, and market environments. In addition, what these changes mean for the structure and function of the securities markets will be discussed. In particular, the conference with focus on macroeconomic trends (including their influence on capital markets), changes to the global equity and credit markets (including how today's markets are different from those of the early 2000s), and market concentration and fragmentation within certain areas of the securities market (including relevant causes and potential risks and effects).
Conference participants include:
- Jay Clayton, SEC Chairman
- S.P. Kothari, SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis Director
- Dalia Blass, SEC Division of Investment Management Director
- Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund
- Gary Cohn, former Director of the National Economic Council
- Nate Goldstein, Assistant Chief of the Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
- Glenn Hutchins, Co-founder, Silver Lake Partners
- Marko Kolanovic, Global Head of Marco Quantitative and Derivatives Research, JP Morgan
- Jennifer Marietta-Westberg, Principal, Cornerstone Research
- Tara Muller, Head of Off Exchange Liquidity, Virtu Financial
- Craig Phillips, former Counselor to the Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury
- Justin Schack, Managing Directory and Partner, Rosenblatt Securities
- Howard Shelanski, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; Professor of Law, Georgetown University, former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; former Director, Bureau of Economic, Federal Trade Commission
- Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, Financial Times
The event is freely open to the public. The conference will be held at SEC Headquarters in Washington, DC from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm EST. Doors will be open for attendees at 8:30 am. To attend, pre-registration is available here. A livestream of the event will also be hosted on the SEC’s website at https://www.sec.gov. The full conference agenda is available here.
Sources:
SEC Announces Conference on Macroeconomic and Structural Trends and Dynamics Affecting Capital Markets (sec.gov)
