As required by Section 621 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010, the SEC has voted to propose a rule intended to prohibit certain material conflicts of interest between those who package and sell asset-backed securities (“ABS”) and those who invest in them. The proposed rule would prohibit securitization participants of an ABS for a designated time period from engaging in certain transactions that would involve or result in any material conflict of interest. Two criteria to determine whether the transaction involves a material conflict of interest are set out in the rule proposal.