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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Launches “Office Hours” Video Series
In a recently launched video series, Chair Gary Gensler tackles timely topics and speaks directly to everyday investors on subjects that matter to them.
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SEC's Small Business Office Releases Strategic Plan for 2021-2025
The SEC's Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation's strategic plan outlines four key goals, with strategies and initiatives underpinning each.
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Diversifying Opportunity in Venture Capital

Our Small Business Office hosted a panel discussion on “How Emerging Managers are Making Access to Capital More Inclusive.” Listen to fund managers and industry leaders discuss how emerging managers are bringing more diversity to decision-makers and entrepreneurs.

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SEC Response to Climate and ESG Risks and Opportunities

As investor demand for climate and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) information soars, the SEC is responding with an all-agency approach. We’ve highlighted some of our recent actions.
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The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issues Investor Alerts & Bulletins as a service to investors. Investor Alerts typically warn investors about the latest investment frauds and scams. Investor Bulletins tend to educate investors about investment-related topics including the functions of the SEC.

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The Ombudsman will listen to your inquiries, complaints, and issues, review the information you provide, and help identify procedures, options, and resources. The Ombudsman is also available to clarify certain SEC decisions, policies, and practices, and serve as an alternate channel of communication between retail investors and the SEC.

We Facilitate Capital Formation

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FinHub

The SEC’s FinHub facilitates our active engagement with innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs of financial technology.
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Small Business

Check out our new Small Biz site, with info to help companies that want to raise capital.

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Tell us about your experience

Making Wall Street work for Main Street means getting your input. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to hear from you! We want your input on proposed rules and want to know what information is important to you, the investor.
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Developer Resources

Check out updates on the SEC open data program, including best practices that make it more efficient to download data.

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Money Market Fund Statistics

Our Investment Management Analytics Office released an updated Money Market Fund Statistics report. The report reflects staff’s compilation and analysis of data reported to the Commission on Form N-MFP.

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SEC Enhances Access to Financial Disclosure Data

The SEC has released Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that aggregate financial statement data, making corporate disclosures quicker and easier for developers and third-party services to use. APIs will allow developers to create web or mobile apps that directly serve retail investors.