The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:32:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png An SEC Insider’s Guide to Reform – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 An SEC Insider’s Guide to Reform https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/11/04/an-sec-insiders-guide-to-reform/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-sec-insiders-guide-to-reform https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/11/04/an-sec-insiders-guide-to-reform/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:32:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=13679?d=20101104093241EDT Editor’s Note: Luis A. Aguilar is a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is based on Commissioner Aguilar’s recent remarks at the University of California at Berkeley, which are available here. The views expressed in the post are those of Commissioner Aguilar and do not necessarily reflect those of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the other Commissioners, or the Staff.

Today I want to speak with you about financial regulatory reform. This is a pivotal time for the financial service industry and for its regulators. It was, after all, just over two years ago that Lehman Brothers collapsed and the American financial system went into tailspin followed by massive government bailouts. On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) into law. It will result in changes to the regulatory framework, operations and supervision of the financial services industry. A few of these changes include — the new Financial Stability Oversight Council, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and a new mechanism for seizing and liquidating large financial companies on the verge of failure, to a host of other changes.

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