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July 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro on Thursday warned lawmakers on the first anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act that the agency needs “significant additional resources” in order to proceed with the agency’s responsibilities under the law.
The SEC has proceeded with the “first stages” of implementing Dodd-Frank without the necessary additional funding, Schapiro said, because implementation over the past year has “largely involved performing studies, analysis and the writing of rules.” These tasks, she continued, “have taken staff time from other responsibilities, and have been done almost entirely with existing staff and without sufficient investments in areas such as information technology.”
However, Schapiro told members of the Senate Banking Committee that the new responsibilities assigned to the agency under Dodd-Frank “are so significant that they cannot be achieved solely by wringing efficiencies out of the existing budget without also severely hampering our ability to meet our existing responsibilities.”
Schapiro went on to explain that the budget justification the SEC submitted in February as part of President Barack Obama’s FY 2012 budget request estimates that, over time, “full implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act will require a total of approximately 770 new staff,” of which many will need to be expert in derivatives, hedge funds, data analytics, credit ratings. The SEC “also will need to invest in technology to facilitate the registration of additional entities and capture and analyze data on these new markets.”
