Mary L. Schapiro: “In my 5 months at the SEC, we have been singularly focused on rebuilding investor confidence in the capital markets and…”

Companies seeking access to capital should not be overburdened by unnecessary or superfluous regulations.

The goal of the whistleblower program is to create a system that incentivizes individuals to come forward with high quality information to help the Commission expose fraud.

This is about my belief that their structure presents systemic risk.

This time around, I have had more than a few people in my office weeping with fear about what might happen to them because one person or another was looking into their behavior.