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Comment: Gensler's US stock-order auction plans may not help small investors, academics say

By Neil Roland
  • 09 Jun 2022 20:21
  • 09 Jun 2022 20:36
Some of US Securities and Exchange Commission chief Gary Gensler’s ideas for shaking up stock-market trading to help ordinary investors will face well-founded skepticism about whether they really will help small customers, four law and finance professors said in interviews.
Other plans that he floated yesterday are better grounded and

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Neil Roland

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Neil has covered U.S. financial regulation for over two decades, mostly for Bloomberg and Crain Communications. He received a Loeb award for coverage of regulators' response to the collapse of Enron. He also garnered a SABEW award and some Jesse H. Neal awards for stories on the Federal Reserve's response to the 2008 financial crisis. Roland has appeared as a commentator on Fox TV, NPR, C-Span and Bloomberg TV. He received a Master's degree in public policy from Harvard and a Bachelors degree in economics from Cornell.

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