SEC Announces Conference on Macroeconomic and Structural Trends and Dynamics Affecting the Capital Markets
Washington D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - November 20, 2019) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it will host a conference on Dec. 4 entitled โThe State of Our Securities Markets.โ
The conference will bring together current and former government officials and experts from different areas of the private sector to explore and discuss the ever-changing economic, risk and market environment and what those changes mean for the structure and function of the securities markets. Areas of focus at the conference will include global macroeconomic trendsโand their impacts on our capital markets; changes to the global equity and credit marketsโincluding how todayโs markets differ from those of the early 2000s and market concentration and fragmentation within certain areas of the securities markets, including relevant causes and potential risks and effects.
SEC participants will include Chairman Jay Clayton, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis Director S.P. Kothari, and Division of Investment Management Director Dalia Blass. Outside experts will include:
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, Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Glenn Hutchins, Co-founder, Silver Lake Partners
Marko Kolanovic, Global Head of Macro Quantitative and Derivatives Research, J.P. 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 U.S. Department of the Treasury
Justin Schack, Managing Director 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 Economics, Federal Trade Commission
Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, Financial Times
The conference will be held at SEC headquarters in Washington, DC from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with doors opening for attendees at 8:30 a.m. The event will be open to the public, with advance pre-registration available here. A livestream of the event will be available to the public at www.sec.gov.
A complete detailed agenda will be released in the near future.