January 7, 2015
Pay Ratio: Is the SEC Adopting Final Rules Next Week?!?
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
Does Politico suddenly have the inside track at the SEC? That would be a shocker. This excerpt from this article surprised me:
…the SEC’s commissioners are expected to vote on Dodd-Frank rules as soon as mid-January, sources said, with the most likely candidates being regulations concerning derivatives markets and the law’s controversial “pay ratio” requirement for executive compensation.
The article also handicaps the odds of crowdfunding and other Dodd-Frank rules. Personally, I would fall off my chair if the SEC adopted pay ratio rules next week – but we’ll find out soon enough whether Politico’s “sources” are real. Note that this article from the Washington Examiner notes that a source at the SEC said that finalizing the pay ratio rule was a “top priority” and that “while there is no timetable to finish the rule…it could be done soon.”
As an aside, here’s an article critical of some members of Congress that have asked the SEC to change its budget priorities…