The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it will hold an open meeting on December 19, 2018. Among other things, the Commission will consider a rule requiring disclosure of hedging arrangements entered into by a reporting company's directors and employees as required by Dodd-Frank Act Section 955, as well as whether to issue a comment request regarding the content of quarterly reports and earnings releases issued by reporting companies. The latter has been the subject of significant media coverage since a Presidential tweet suggested that quarterly reporting contributes to short-termism ( see our prior blog posts). The proposed package of legislation known as JOBS Act 3.0 contains a bill that would require that a study be conducted by the Commission regarding the requirement for quarterly reporting by smaller reporting companies. See the meeting notice here: https://www.sec.gov/news/openmeetings/2018/agenda121918.htm.
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