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Opinion: IFRS Foundation funding concerns central to Atkins’s OECD remarks

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins
SEC Chair Paul Atkins. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A closer reading of the Chair’s comments in the speech shows, as a primary focus, explicit and very prosaic concerns about the IFRS Foundation’s long-term solvency and stability.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins delivered an intriguing speech at the inaugural Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) roundtable on global financial markets in Paris. My colleague Alexander Barzacanos already very ably covered the salient points of this speech.

However, what caught my eye