My latest President’s Letter describes the difficulties for small and mid-sized dealers to access external capital to build operating scale to compete in the retail marketplace. The impending changes toward regulatory consolidation, such as SRO amalgamation, and related significant cost-savings, will place even more competitive pressures on small firms. Regulators need to redouble efforts to focus on proportionate regulation and “scalability” versions of core regulations.

You can click here to read my Letter.