NASAA Sponsors Program on Regulatory Reform

NASAA will host its annual Public Policy Conference on April 28 in Washington, D.C. to discuss the challenges facing the current financial services regulatory structure and outline policy proposals to strengthen regulatory safeguards for Main Street investors.  The conference will open with a keynote speech by U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), who serves on the House Financial Services Committee and is chairman of its Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises. The conference also features two panel discussions.

Panel One: Answering an Angry Public: Restructuring Our Regulatory System and Restoring Investor Confidence

Moderator: James Cox, Duke University School of Law
Panelists: Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America 
                Matt Kitzi, Missouri Commissioner of Securities 
                Donald Langevoort, Georgetown University School of Law

Panel Two: Risky Business: Rebuilding Market Integrity through Systemic Risk Regulation

Moderator: Joseph Borg, Alabama Securities Commission Director
Panelists:  Monica Lindeen, Montana State Auditor 
                 Sarah Bloom Raskin, Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation 
                 Dean Shahinian, Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Banking Committee

More information is available at the NASAA website.