Pollard & Perry on Dodd Frank

Randle B. Pollard and Tod Perry have posted 'Grade Incomplete': Examining the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Attempt to Implement Credit Rating and Certain Corporate Governance Reforms of Dodd-Frank on SSRN with the following abstract:

Following the financial crisis of 2007-2009, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act with stated goals, among others, of creating a sound economic foundation and protecting consumers. The Dodd-Frank Act creates several new agencies and restructures the financial regulatory system, yet controversies remain on the promulgation of new rules and the overall effectiveness in accomplishing the stated goals of the Act.

This Article briefly discusses the status of rulemaking by newly created agencies and the restructured financial regulatory system mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act three years after its passage. Next, we focus on certain aspects of the SEC and its charge from Dodd-Frank to implement new agencies and regulations. Specifically, we examine the SEC efforts to establish the Office of Credit Ratings and its regulations and the SEC’s efforts related to additional executive compensation disclosure regulations required by Dodd-Frank.