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Mark Schoeff Jr.

Arkansas duo goes to bat for small investment brokers

House Financial Services Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., often calls for easing regulatory burdens on community banks. Now he and a home-state Senate colleague are turning their attention to small investment brokers handling clients’ trades and dealers trading on their own behalf.

Hill and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have drafted legislation that would relieve small, privately held broker-dealers from tough audit requirements dating back to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals.

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