Topic: Financial communications. Andy Merrill discusses his life journey, the effects of unregulated social media on increasingly regulated financial markets, the challenges facing banks in managing an increasing amount of structured and unstructured data, the growing role of the general public in the valuation of public companies, Elon Musk’s unorthodox use of Twitter, the weaponization of social media by activist investors, and Donald Trump’s proposal to move from a quarterly to a semiannual financial reporting system.