Gary Gensler: “A lot of the pushback is because in an opaque world, a call-around market, et cetera, you make more fees.”

I think that the Congress' wisdom was to have an agency to oversee disclosure-based markets where issuers are asking the public to buy and sell their securities.

I really do think it is such a privilege to serve and the important thing we do is we look out for 330 million Americans.

It is rife with fraud, scams, and abuse.

The New York Stock Exchange can't actually also run a hedge fund on and trade against their customers.