The chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee panel is urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to pick up the pace on its work to create an audit trail to track financial trades and police markets, Reuters reports.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), whose panel has jurisdiction over the regulator, said Wednesday that the SEC needs to complete the database that it proposed in 2012 as a response to the May 2010 “flash crash,” Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly 1,000 points only to recover those losses minutes later. Almost three years later, the project is still far from completion, Reuters reports.
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