SEC Chair defends response to "Flash Crash," discusses future structural market changes
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast After detailing the financial regulatory changes undertaken in the aftermath of the 2010 "flash crash," where equity markets collapsed with no provocation, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro talked about potential future changes that would ensure such a crash doesn't happen again at a breakfast... Read more
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- -: SEC Chair defends response to "Flash Crash," discusses future structural market changes
February 22, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast After detailing the financial regulatory changes undertaken in the aftermath of the 2010 "flash crash," where equity markets collapsed with no provocation, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro talked about potential future changes that would ensur...
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