# U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

id: ent_us-securities-and-exchange-commission  
wikidata: Q953944  
kind: regulator  
timeline: /timelines/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md  
page: /record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission  

U.S. federal agency that enforces securities laws and regulates securities markets and major market participants (public companies, brokers, exchanges, and asset managers)

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](/record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md) | founded | 1934-06-06 | valid 1934-06-06 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_10D9843C5067](/claim/clm_10D9843C5067.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/statutes-regulations, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953944
- [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](/record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md) | employees | 4,542 | valid 2025-09-30 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_71CFD6AB2D18](/claim/clm_71CFD6AB2D18.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/files/fy-2027-congressional-budget-justification.pdf, https://www.sec.gov/about/reports/secfy17congbudgjust.pdf

## All claims

One claim per line, newest first. Superseded claims stay visible.

- [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](/record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md) | employees | 4,542 | valid 2025-09-30 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_71CFD6AB2D18](/claim/clm_71CFD6AB2D18.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/files/fy-2027-congressional-budget-justification.pdf, https://www.sec.gov/about/reports/secfy17congbudgjust.pdf
- [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](/record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md) | chair | Gary Gensler | valid 2021-04-17 to 2025-01-20 | conf 0.95 | superseded | [clm_A709831436B2](/claim/clm_A709831436B2.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/about/commissioners/gary-gensler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953944
- [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](/record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md) | chair | Mary Jo White | valid 2013-04-10 to 2017-01-20 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_A709831436B2](/claim/clm_A709831436B2.md) | [clm_EC7232CFD3D0](/claim/clm_EC7232CFD3D0.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953944, https://www.sec.gov/about/sechistoricalsummary, https://www.sec.gov/about/sec-commissioners/sec-historical-summary-chairmen-commissioners/mary-jo-white, https://www.sec.gov/about/sec-commissioners/sec-historical-summary-chairmen-commissioners
- [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission](/record/us-securities-and-exchange-commission.md) | founded | 1934-06-06 | valid 1934-06-06 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_10D9843C5067](/claim/clm_10D9843C5067.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/statutes-regulations, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953944

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