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13th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation - Day Two Agenda
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20549
May 8, 2026
9:00AM
– 6:15PM ET
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Day Two Agenda
| TIME | ITEM |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:45 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45 - 10:00 AM | Opening Remarks SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce |
| 10:00 - 11:30 AM | Corporate Finance Track Session Chair: Paul Brockman (Lehigh University) Cryptocurrency Regulation: Protective vs. Enabling Approaches Jillian Grennan (Emory University) Discussant: Dino Palazzo (Federal Reserve Board) Decentralized Voting in Mutual Fund Families Roni Michaely (University of Hong Kong) Matthew Ringgenberg (University of Utah) Silvina Rubio (Nova School of Business Economics) Irene Yi (University of Toronto) Discussant: Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Lunch Keynote Address SEC Chairman Paul Atkins |
| 1:00 - 2:30 PM | Financial Intermediary Track Session Chair: Diana Knyazeva (SEC) From Rating-Takers to Rating-Movers: Investors’ Influence on Corporate Loan Ratings Han Xia (Southern Methodist University) David Xu (University of Texas at Dallas) Discussant: Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia) Liquidity Flows to Bank-Affiliated Broker Dealers: Insights from Volumes and Prices Jennie Bai (Georgetown University) Erik Bostrom (Federal Reserve Board) Sebastian Infante (Independent Researcher) Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University) Discussant: Dan Li (Federal Reserve Board) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:30 PM | Asset Management Track Session Chair: Shuaiyu Chen (University of Virginia) Active ETFs as Attention Assets: Retail Trading Meets Managed Funds Da Huang (Northeastern University) Vasudha Nair (University of Utah) Christopher Schwarz (University of California, Irvine) Discussant: Ke Shen (Lehigh University) Asset Reclassification and Mutual Fund Flows Nick Bollen (Vanderbilt University) Veronika Pool (Vanderbilt University) Alexey Vasilenko (Vanderbilt University) Discussant: Jim McLoughlin (SEC) |
| 4:30 - 4:45 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 4:45 - 6:15 PM | Informal SEC Reception |
Last Reviewed or Updated: April 17, 2026