SEC Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee

The Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a meeting of the Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee on August 2, beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT.  The Commission established the advisory committee to provide a formal mechanism through which the Commission can receive advice and recommendations on equity market structure issues.

The meeting is open to the public and will also be live streamed on the SEC website.

The agenda is below.

9:30 a.m.         Welcoming Remarks

• SEC Chair Mary Jo White, Commissioners, and Division of Trading and Markets Associate Director David Shillman

10:00 a.m.       Market Quality Subcommittee Recommendations to the Committee

• Recommendations Relating to Market Quality

10:10 a.m.       Consideration and Discussion of Recommendations Relating to Market Quality

• James Angel, Associate Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
• Stacey Cunningham, Chief Operating Officer, NYSE Group
• Venu Palaparthi, Senior V.P. – Compliance, Regulatory, and Government Affairs, Virtu Financial
• John Zecca, Senior V.P. – MarketWatch, NASDAQ

11:30 a.m.       Lunch

12:30 p.m.       Customer Issues Subcommittee Recommendations to the Committee

• Recommendations Relating to Customer Issues

12:40 p.m.       Consideration and Discussion of Recommendations Relating to Customer Issues

• Bill Alpert, Senior Editor, Barron’s
• Frank Hatheway, Senior V.P. & Chief Economist, NASDAQ
• Chris Nagy, Director, Healthy Markets Association

2:00 p.m.         Break

2:15 p.m.         Regulation NMS Subcommittee Status Report to the Committee

2:45 p.m.         Trading Venues Regulation Subcommittee Status Report to the Committee

3:15 p.m.         Discussion of Next Steps/ Adjournment