The SEC Investor Advisory Committee's Thursday agenda includes recent volatility in pricing for exchange traded funds, the investment vehicles in the news on Aug. 24, when disruptive price swings throughout equity markets led to trading halts for more than 500 ETFs.

Regulators and stock exchanges want to limit the potential for disruptions in the $2 trillion market for ETFs, which typically track broad investment portfolios while being bought and sold like individual stocks.

The SEC is working on rules to rein in disruptive trading as part of broader changes in oversight of market structure. An agency report is scheduled to come out in the next few weeks.
12 October 2015
Week InAdvance
save the date...
Wednesday, Oct 21
Mortgage Securitization Telecon
3 - 3:30 pm ET

Tuesday, Oct 27
Board of Directors Meeting
12 noon - 2 pm ET
Boston, Massachusetts

Tuesday, Nov 17
2015 Fall Market Practices in-Person
8:30 am to 1:30 pm ET
Boston, Massachusetts
for details & call-in info...
Matthew Jones
Staff Director
mjones@association.institutionalINVESTORS.org
(202) 712-9050
week in brief
Monday, Oct 12
Columbus Day federal holiday. U.S. stock markets are open, while bond markets will be closed.

Tuesday, Oct 13
The first U.S. Libor trial begins in Manhattan federal court. The trial could mark a turning point in the government's effort to prosecute individuals for corrupting financial markets.

Wednesday, Oct 14
IAIS IGWG/GWG meeting in Basel, Switzerland. Fed issues Beige Book of economic conditions.

Thursday, Oct 15
SEC panel meets in open session on recent market structure developments, pricing of ETFs and enforcement priorities. Live CFR world economics webinar. EU privacy chiefs mull U.S. data transfer future in Brussels, Belgium.

Friday, Oct 16
6th OECD mayors and ministers roundtable in Mexico City.
Please see below for details on these and other events this week.
at the agencies
Thursday, Oct 15
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Meeting of the Investor Advisory Committee. Meeting agenda includes remarks from commissioners, a discussion of recent market structure developments, a discussion of exchange-traded fund pricing, a report of the committee chair, and a discussion of commission enforcement priorities.
  
 
on the hill







Lawmakers are scheduled to take a week-long recess.
across the globe
Monday, Oct 12
LONDON, ENGLAND
During LME Week, a London Metal Exchange Regulation Seminar will focus on the impact of European regulation and its impact for all those affected by MIFID II and forthcoming developments in European legislation. 

Monday, Oct 12 -
Wednesday, Oct 14
KIEL, GERMANY
Global Economic Symposium, "Values to Guide Economies," will explore financial regulation and stability; environmental sustainability; societal development, integration and equality; and innovation and prosperity.

Tuesday, Oct 13
LONDON, ENGLAND
Bank of England's 7th meeting of the Risk-Free Rate Working Group that is trying to find an alternative to the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).  

Tuesday, Oct 13 -
Wednesday Oct 14
ANKARA, TURKEY
G20 Sherpa Meeting.

Tuesday, Oct 13 - 
Thursday, Oct 15
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO
5th OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge, and Policy: Transforming Policy, Changing Lives."

Wednesday, Oct 14
BASEL, SWITZERLAND
International Association of Insurance Supervisors meeting of the Insurance Groups Working Group and the Governance Working Group.

Thursday, Oct 15
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
The Article 29 Working Party, an advisory group to the European Commission, made up of representatives from the data protection authorities of the 28 EU member states, is slated to meet  to consider offering official guidance to companies affected by the sudden end of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program.

Friday, Oct 16
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Sixth OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers. Closed-door event for leading mayors and national ministers from OECD and non-OECD countries.
other events
Tuesday, Oct 13
NEW YORK CITY
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley presides over an Economic Club of New York luncheon meeting.

Wednesday, Oct 14
NEW YORK CITY
SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar will address the Annual Boardroom Summit and Peer Exchange.

Wednesday, Oct 14
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
Andrew "Buddy" Donohue, the SEC's chief of staff, will give the keynote address at the NRS 30th Annual Fall Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Compliance Conference. 

Thursday, Oct 15
LIVE WEBINAR
Council on Foreign Relations "World Economic Update" will highlight the quarter's most important signals and emerging trends.

Thursday, Oct 15
NEW YORK CITY
SEC Chair Mary Jo White will address the Managed Fund Association's 2015 Outlook Conference.

Thursday, Oct 15
WASHINGTON DC
Brookings Institution's "The Fed at a Crossroads: Where to Go Next?" Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley participates in a conversation on how the Federal Reserve should decide on the appropriate level of interest rates.

Thursday, Oct 15 -
Friday, Oct 16
WASHINGTON DC
5th Annual Consumer Research Symposium. Speakers include Melissa Koide of the U.S. Treasury, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg and the CFPB's Jialan Wang and Jesse B. Leary.

Friday, Oct 16
NEW YORK CITY
Andrew Ceresney, the SEC's enforcement director, will be a panelist during the Annual Securities Litigation and Enforcement Institute at the New York City Bar. His panel will focus on enforcement priorities and recent activities.

Friday, Oct 16
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Mark Flannery, the SEC's economic and risk analysis director and chief economist, will be a panelist at the Financial Management Association's annual meeting. His panel will discuss current topics of interest to the SEC including mutual fund liquidity risk management, executive compensation and security-based swap markets.