SEC Chairman Atkins Addresses Intermarket Surveillance Group, Previews Dividend Rules and Release Date Changes
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul S. Atkins delivered the keynote address at the 2026 Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG) Conference on November 12, outlining several bread-and-butter market reforms under his “Make Capital Markets Great Again” effort.
Atkins said the Commission is actively working to add all exchanges to its coverage list and believes dividends for many registered companies should be normalized in markets, with the agency considering a rule allowing registered companies to pay dividends on the same day as their current record date. He called such incremental reforms the kind that “may not generate headlines, but matter a great deal to how well our markets function.”
He also announced a change to enforcement news-release practice, under which releases will be published even before a full internal sign-off is complete, in a bid to make the agency’s work more transparent. He said he hopes those changes can be finished within a few months.
(Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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