Sphere is leveraging social media to help our client end hidden hurricane taxes and fight for a common-sense approach to risk preparedness in Florida.
Sphere is working with Kids v Cancer to bring media attention and grassroots support to innovative policy solutions in pediatric cancer.
Paul Atkins, senior partner at Sphere Consulting and a former commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appeared on Bloomberg Television to discuss the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd. and a vote by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to restrict how brokers can invest customer funds.
Sphere Consulting Senior Partner Paul Atkins testified in front of the House Committee on Financial Services on September 15, 2011. The hearing was entitled "Fixing the Watchdog: Legislative Proposals to Improve and Enhance the Securities and Exchange Commission." Atkins's testimony focused on a wide range of topics, including SEC funding and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.
With Labor Day approaching and the national unemployment rate remains at 9.1%, Sphere Consulting LLC launched a website, www.createrealjobs.com, which showed that private investment in infrastructure could generate 1.9 million jobs for Americans.
When Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+, Sphere put together an online campaign for five clients from the manufacturing industry to highlight the politics that went into the credit rating agency’s decision. Sphere developed and created a website, www.getSandPoutofpolitics.com, to add context and historical perspective to the discussion.
Sphere has developed a working group of 30 leading companies in the transportation and financial sectors and produced a report, The Benefits of Private Investment in Infrastructure, that continues to shape the narrative on PPPs in the U.S. The report was recently cited in a Barron’s article entitled “Banking on Infrastructure." Read the rest of the article here.
Sphere Consulting Senior Partner Paul Atkins testified in front of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 12, 2011. The hearing was entitled “Enhancing Investor Protection After The Financial Crisis.” Atkins’s testimony focused on the impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
