Mar. 15, 2023
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Good evening, I would like to express my opinion as a retail person investor regarding exemptions to the proposed rules. As an Accounting employee of a publicly traded company, we have a strict internal control environment to prevent the possibility of fraud without the collusion of multiple parties. This is required to be a transparent system, audited by third parties annually, to provide investors with as much potentially relevant information so they as investors can make an informed decision. If companies traded on the stock market have this fiduciary responsibility to make information as available as possible, why aren’t the companies facilitating the trades held to the same standard? Not only are they not held to the same standard, as non-reporting entities, they have exemptions to the rules that retail investors are held to. The more information available to we the investor, the more informed of a decision we can make. I would like a legitimate response on how increasing transparency in the markets would negatively impact the broader market, and what the purpose of attempting to prevent the transparency would be. Thanks Concerned investor