The Securities and Change Fee is “scaring individuals off from coming in and having a dialog with us,” SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce mentioned Tuesday.

In remarks on the Practising Regulation Institute’s SEC Speaks convention in Washington, Peirce, a Republican, mentioned that “productive interactions with the SEC are fewer and additional between than they had been prior to now.”

When people and entities “come to the SEC with their novel concepts, their suggestions, their issues, their objections, their questions on implementation of a brand new rule or utility of an outdated one to new circumstances, too typically now they’re met with … effectively, crickets,” Peirce acknowledged.

Peirce relayed that “Neither workers experience nor points ripe for evaluation are missing, so what has modified?”

Partly, “the workers, run ragged by a punishing rulewriting agenda, doesn’t have the bandwidth to consider exhausting, novel authorized questions,” she asserted. “The distant work norm additionally could play a task because it reduces alternatives for spontaneous workers collaboration to work by way of powerful questions.”

That being mentioned, “the foundation of the issue, although, is that the Fee discourages the workers from providing far more than silence, shrugs, sighs, and slow-walking. The tradition on the prime of the SEC has modified, which in flip has modified the way in which the company interacts with the general public,” she defined.