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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Q&A with SEC’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Committee Co-Chair
In honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AANHPI), Co-Chair of the SEC’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Committee shares her story and insights on the celebration of AANHPI Month.
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SEC Provides Financial Literacy to High School Students
In recognition of Financial Capability Month, the SEC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion and the African American Council hosted their annual financial literacy and career day event for high school students.
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Office Hours with Gary Gensler: What is the Bond Market and How Does it Work?

Did you know that our bond markets are every bit as big as the stock market? We often hear about the stock market—but our $50 trillion bond markets are vital, too.

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Enforcement Task Force Focused on Climate and ESG Issues

The Climate and ESG Task Force develops initiatives to proactively identify ESG-related misconduct consistent with increased investor reliance on climate and ESG-related disclosure and investment.
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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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Ombudsman

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