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    The SEC’s regulation of the securities markets facilitates capital formation, which helps entrepreneurs start businesses and companies grow. Last year $5 trillion was raised in public and private securities offerings, promoting economic growth and job creation. 

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Q&A with Caribbean American Heritage Committee Co-Chair
The SEC is spotlighting Caribbean American Heritage Committee Co-Chair Christy White in celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month.
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Chair Gensler Marks 2nd Year at SEC
Over the last two years, the SEC has filed 1,500 enforcement actions and overseen tens of thousands of registrants. The SEC proposed rules to make our markets more efficient, competitive, transparent, resilient—and worthy of the public’s trust.
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The Securities Act of 1933

Happy 90th birthday to the Securities Act of 1933—the first of the securities laws. Ninety years later, the Securities and Exchange Commission is committed to investors and issuers alike and ensuring that the markets connecting them works for them.

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Through the goals laid out in its Strategic Plan, the SEC will continue to bring a skilled and steady hand to the capital markets of a changing world.
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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.

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Capital Raising

The Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation and the Division of Corporation Finance’s Office of Small Business Policy launched an expanded Capital Raising Hub, which includes all of the SEC’s small business educational resources for entrepreneurs and their investors.
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The SEC’s FinHub facilitates our active engagement with innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs of financial technology.
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    Explore the fundamentals of capital raising with the SEC's Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation.

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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 proposals and other pertinent issues and topics. We want to know what information is important to you, the investor.
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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.