This past week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published its 41st annual Small Business Forum report, an effort to help guide the Commission on important issues facing small businesses and access to capital in the USA. While the SEC focuses most of its attention… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Martha Legg Miller, Director of the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (OASB), is leaving the agency at the end of April. The SEC added that Sebastian Gomez Abero will serve as Acting… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission‘s (SEC) 41st Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation will take place as a virtual gathering once again. Pre-covid, the event was held in person either in Washington, DC or at another venue around the US. For this year’s… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation, is a relatively new entity at the SEC. The Advocate was created in recognition of the fact that smaller firms in need of growth capital too frequently get ignored by… Read More
The Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation will host the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) 40th Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation in a virtual event this year in light of the ongoing COVID health crisis. This is the 40th… Read More
Longtime Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staffer Sebastian Gomez Abero has been named Deputy Director of the SEC’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (OASB). Gomez Abero has been serving as Senior Advisor to SEC Chairman Jay Clayton. The OASB was created… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that its annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation will be virtual this year. During SEC Chairman Jay Clayton’s tenure, the Forum has moved outside the beltway. Before Clayton, the Forum was held at SEC HQ… Read More
George Cook, the CEO of Honeycomb Credit, is a sixth-generation community banker who started a loan crowdfunding portal to support main street small businesses. A FINRA regulated funding portal, Honeycomb is a debt only seeing an opportunity to supplant bank lending or competing Fintechs that… Read More
Earlier this week the SEC Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation announced a series of “virtual coffee breaks” to engage with the public to discuss updates, trends, and perspectives on how COVID-19 is impacting raising capital. The very first virtual gather is… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee met today in a teleconference to discuss the impact of COVID-19 and small business. In brief, several Committee members expressed the opinion that it is going to be really bad. Martha Legg Miller,… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the selection of Martha Legg Miller as the very first “Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation.” The position was created by legislation signed into law during the final days of the Obama Administration in a legislative push to… Read More
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