November 10, 2014
Dodd-Frank: Republican Senate Takeover Could Bring Changes
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
Many are asking what the GOP’s takeover of the Senate might mean for the SEC’s pay ratio proposal, among others. It’s too soon to tell – but it’s a good bet that Chair White’s “hope & expectation” to adopt the pay ratio rules by the end of this year might not happen. But you never know. Anyways, this memo from Greenberg Traurig lays out a bunch of possibilities about how Dodd-Frank could change, including an observation that 60 votes in the Senate is needed to pass changes to Dodd-Frank (meaning that some Democratic Senators must cross party lines) and musings about who is now likely to chair the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the SEC (Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL))…
This Boston Globe article notes other efforts to implement laws to enact pay ratios. This MarketWatch article cites Chair White as saying she is still planning to implement Dodd-Frank – including the Four Horsemen – and this NY Times column notes that the Four Horsemen are not law yet…