SEC Chair Atkins Tells NYSE He Wants to 'Make IPOs Great Again'

SEC chief wants to ease rules for small-firm public offerings

By Lydia Beyoud and Katherine Doherty | Bloomberg The nation’s top securities regulator is planning to make it easier for small companies to go public by cutting mandatory disclosures and scaling back requirements based on the size of the firm. Such a move could increase the initial public offering pipeline and revive the roster of listed companies, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said in prepared remarks for a Tuesday ev…

SEC Chair Atkins tells NYSE he wants to 'make IPOs great again'

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins spoke at the NYSE Tuesday, discussing how he will work to lighten public disclosure requirements.

Public markets ‘worth reviving’: SEC Chair

SEC Chair Paul Atkins has a 250th birthday gift for America’s CEOs: less paperwork. In a NYSE speech Tuesday, the regulator vowed to cut the “regulatory creep” of “voluminous disclosure requirements.” Atkins, noting in his speech that public-market listings have fallen 40% since the mid-1990s, has been beating this drum for a while. Earlier this year, he blessed the idea of companies moving to twice-yearly earnings reports, the standard in Europ…

SEC Chief Wants to Boost IPOs by Easing Rules for Small Firms

(Bloomberg) — The nation’s top securities regulator is planning to make it easier for small companies to go public by cutting mandatory disclosures and scaling back requirements based on the size of the firm.