Securities Litigation

On February 20, 2015, Chairwoman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), Mary Jo White, spoke at the 2015 SEC Speaks Conference in Washington, D.C. During her speech, Chairwoman White addressed a number of topics in providing an overview of the SEC's activities and initiatives during 2014.

In particular, Chairwoman White commented on reforms made with respect to U.S. money market funds via the promulgation of new SEC rules in July 2014. Under these new rules, institutional prime money market funds will be required to maintain a floating net asset value ...