SEC Seeks Ideas to Boost Stock Market Quality in New Initiative

By Andrew Ramonas

The SEC is looking to hear how to improve equity market structure in a series of roundtable discussions this year, agency Chairman Jay Clayton said April 10.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s first talk will focus on the market for small companies with thinly traded stocks April 23, Clayton said in remarks at a Security Traders Association and University of Chicago Booth School of Business symposium in Chicago. Other discussions will center on investor access to markets and market data, and fighting retail fraud, including in the cryptocurrency space, he said.

The new initiative will help the ...