SEC Names Paul Knight as Chief Operating Officer
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Event type
news.press_release
Occurred
2026-07-06
Reported
2026-07-06
Disclosure lag
0 days
Context
links are based on the recorded entity type| Field | Recorded value |
|---|---|
| Entity | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Source | SEC Press Releases RSS ↗ |
| News section | Unclassified |
| Source identifier | sec-press-2026-08-06-10 |
| Source-linked related entities | None recorded |
| Event ID | #408718 |
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Recorded payload
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"coverage": "official RSS press release; short feed summary only",
"language": "en",
"published_at": "2026-07-06T19:10:00Z",
"source": "sec-press",
"summary": "The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Paul Knight has been named as the agency’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).As COO, Mr. Knight will oversee the SEC's operational and administrative functions, including the agency's Office of…",
"title": "SEC Names Paul Knight as Chief Operating Officer",
"url": "https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-62-sec-names-paul-knight-chief-operating-officer"
}Evidence-based analysis
facts, provenance and explicit model coverageDescriptive evidence from the stored source record; it is not advice, a forecast or a legal conclusion.
| Dimension | Status / value | Method or boundary |
|---|---|---|
| What happened | available · SEC Names Paul Knight as Chief Operating Officer | The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Paul Knight has been named as the agency’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).As COO, Mr. Knight will oversee the SEC's operational and administrative functions, including the agency's Office of… |
| When | source_backed · reported 2026-07-06 | Occurred 2026-07-06. Source-record timestamps; no timezone or event time is inferred. |
| Affected entities | resolved · 0 related | Canonical primary entity and stored related_entity_ids only. |
| Event classification | news · news.press_release | canonical event type plus source-provided category; no sentiment or impact is inferred |
| Entity linking | resolved | Canonical entity resolved during ingestion |
| Deduplication | applied | unique source event key at ingestion |
| Source trust | high · terms allowed | Source registry metadata |
| Sentiment | not_covered | No sentiment model output is published for this record. |
| Market reaction | not_covered | Requires licensed quote, candle and volume observations for the affected instrument. |
| Historical analogs | not_covered | Requires an audited event-cluster corpus and matching methodology. |
| Impact mechanism | not_covered | No causal market-impact model is published for this record. |
| Related risks | not_covered | Risk implications require an audited instrument/entity exposure model. |
| Instrument linkage | not_covered | No instrument relation is inferred from an entity event; licensed instrument mapping is required. |
Source: Open original press release · as of 2026-07-06T19:10:00Z
Source: SEC Press Releases RSS · as of 2026-07-06T19:10:00Z