By Richard Marshall (December 11, 2018, 3:35 PM EST) -- On Dec. 6, 2018, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton published a speech in which he outlined a focused regulatory agenda for the coming year.[1] As he noted in this speech, prior SEC regulatory agendas have been excessively long, rendering the agendas of little value in focusing either the SEC's energies or the public's attention. By keeping his regulatory agenda short, he hopes the SEC can avoid these mistakes. Clayton also noted that for much of the past decades, SEC rule-making has been driven by the implementation of legislative mandates. This has prevented the SEC from having the time and energy to develop its own regulatory agenda. At least for now, the SEC is relatively free to set its own regulatory agenda, and Clayton has done so....
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