Elisse B. Walter
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Investors push SEC on climate-risk disclosure* SEC's Walter believes climate change serious issue * Investors want firms to disclose climate-related risks * Biggest U.S. pension fund Calpers wants SEC guidance By Rachelle Younglai Pension funds and other investors holding more... In this article: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Climate change, Elisse Walter, Covington & Burling, U.S., and George W. Bush |
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CFO | November 17, 2009
Keep Bank Regulators Away from FASB: SEC Commissioner
Keep Bank Regulators away from FASB: SEC Commissioner Commissioner Elisse Walter hopes to squelch a legislative proposal that would make FASB subject to oversight by banking regulators. Other critics say the proposal might allow banks...
In this article: Financial Accounting Standards Board, SEC, Elisse Walter, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Center for Audit Quality, Ed Perlmutter, and House Financial Services Committee
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Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy | November 17, 2009
SEC Official Critiques Risk Proposal
...the secretary of the Treasury would serve as the head of the council. When questioned about that model, however, Ms. Walter said she thinks alternative approaches should be explored. "I think the notion of having a rotating chairman...
In this article: Elisse Walter, SEC, Federal Reserve, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Risk management, House Agriculture Committee, and House Financial Services Committee
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AP Online | November 17, 2009
House Ag committee blasts Obama financial proposal
...to consider closely whether it's best to set up multiple regulators for some functions," Gensler said. SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter warned that moving too quickly on proposed measures, especially expanding Fed power too much, could...
In this article: The Fed, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, House Agriculture Committee, and Securities and Exchange Commission
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Reuters | November 05, 2009
SEC official worried about naked access
...that problems aren't created by sponsored (naked) access," Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Elisse Walter told Reuters. Walter is one of five commissioners who make decisions on federal securities rules. She is the latest...
In this article: SEC, Elisse Walter, and Risk management
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UPDATE 1-Madoff to SEC watchdog: agency held me in awe
...had "mutual respect." An email to Walter seeking comment was not immediately returned. According to the documents, Walter told Kotz that she knew Madoff in a professional sense. "I would not say that I know him pretty well," she said.
In this article: Bernard Madoff, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, Elisse Walter, Finra, and William Donaldson
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Madoff to SEC watchdog: agency held me in awe
...FINRA. She had been an SEC commissioner between December 1988 and October 1994. Madoff also said he knew SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter "pretty well," and said he was "sort of competitors" with former SEC Chairman William Donaldson...
In this article: Bernard Madoff, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, Elisse Walter, Finra, American Stock Exchange, and Wall Street
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USATODAY.com | October 27, 2009
SEC commissioner manages a high-profile job, her health, too
Shortly after Elisse Walter joined the SEC in 2008 she learned she had cancer. April 14, 1950, in Brooklyn; now 59. Grew up in Williston Park, Long Island. Yale, B.A. in mathematics (cum laude), 1971; Harvard, J.D. (cum laude), 1974.
In this article: Elisse Walter, SEC, Cancer, Breast cancer, Bernard Madoff, Surgery, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and George W. Bush
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How to work while healing
...home so she could have full access to her desktop at work. Staffers scanned paper documents and sent them to her by computer. Walter leaned on her office's small team - three lawyers and an executive assistant - even though they had just...
In this article: Elisse Walter, E mail, CNBC, Ovarian cancer, Securities and Exchange Commission, and CNN
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Elisse B. Walter was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn in on July 9, 2008. Under designation by President Barack Obama, she served as Acting Chairman during January 2009.
Walter holds a Democratic seat, succeeding Annette Nazareth, who left the commission in January 2008 to work in private practice. Walter was recommended for the commissioner position by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) in 2007, along with fellow commissioner Luis A. Aguilar.
Prior to her appointment as an SEC Commissioner, Ms. Walter served as Senior Executive Vice President, Regulatory Policy & Programs, for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She held the same position at National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) before its 2007 consolidation with NYSE Member Regulation.
Ms. Walter coordinated policy issues across FINRA and oversaw a number of departments including Investment Company Regulation, Member Education and Training, Investor Education and Emerging Regulatory Issues. She also served on the Board of Directors of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation.
Prior to joining NASD, Ms. Walter served as the General Counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Before joining the CFTC in 1994, Ms. Walter was the Deputy Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission. She served on the SEC's staff beginning in 1977, both in that Division and in the Office of the General Counsel. Before joining the SEC, Ms. Walter was an attorney with a private law firm.
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