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Article: Supporting--and Improving--SRO Consolidation.
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- Securities Industry News
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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No organization pressed harder for a consolidation of broker-dealer regulation than the Securities Industry Association, now the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (Sifma). Now that the merger of self-regulatory organizations (SROs) NASD and NYSE Regulation is near, Sifma continues to raise some issues at the margins, as laid out in testimony May 17 to a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee by Sifma president and CEO Marc Lackritz, excerpted here.
Sifma supports the single SRO because we believe it is a win-win situation for investors and market participants. A single SRO will provide for more effective investor protection at the ...