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Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
SEC Cracks Insider-Trading Ring The SEC has charged 14 individuals -- including employees of UBS and Morgan Stanley -- with participating in two insider-trading schemes that generated at least $15 million in illegal profits.   |
CFO
October 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Lee Conrad |
Oversight: Hedge Fund Transparency At Issue...Again The Securities & Exchange Commission is attempting to shine a spotlight on the most opaque of investments-hedge funds-by creating a working group in its enforcement division to combat insider trading. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 20, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Traditional Investigation Methods and New Tech Help Catch Insider Traders As insider trading rises globally, regulators and banks are using complex event processing and remote-control software to catch rogue traders. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Emily Thornton |
A Steady Drip of Buyout Leaks The Justice Dept. is investigating several cases where insiders may have traded on nonpublic information. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Blotter Inside Job: The SEC charged 14 people in March in what one SEC official described as the biggest insider-trading scheme... Ponzi Scheming Manager: William Sirls, a former Wachovia branch manager was charged in early March with stealing... |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2006
Seth Jayson |
SEC Slaps Tube Traders A few South American account holders are charged with trading Maverick Tube on inside information. The SEC is, so far, short on the details of just how these people got insider information. |
Reason
October 2003
Michael McMenamin |
St. Martha Why Martha Stewart should go to heaven and the SEC should go to hell. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Paula Dwyer |
The SEC To Top Execs: Read The Fine Print The Ken Lay criminal indictment has overshadowed the parallel SEC civil lawsuit. But corporate insiders and their attorneys would be wise to give the SEC complaint a close read. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Emily Thornton |
More Heat On Hedge Funds As if there weren't enough controversy surrounding hedge funds, now the Securities & Exchange Commission is investigating suspicions that fund employees are engaging in insider trading. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Meet the SEC If you're an investor, you have a friend. His name is EDGAR (the acronym for the database hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission). |
Registered Rep.
May 9, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan Stanley to pay $7.96 Million for Best Execution Fraud The SEC announced that Morgan Stanley will pay penalties to settle the charges against the firm for failing to provide best execution to clients. |
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Homing In On Trading Abuses Do allegations that a UBS worker sold info to hedge funds signal a growing problem? |
Chemistry World
November 23, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Record insider trading case hits pharma US authorities claim that in 2008 Mathew Martoma, a hedge fund manager, was able to avoid losses of $194 million and make gains of $82 million in response to confidential clinical trial data. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
CFO Staff |
And Justice for All? CFOs facing civil or criminal trials today might wish they had settled or done their time already... More than 80,000 U.S. employees of Arthur Andersen, which closed its doors on August 31, hit the job market this summer... etc. |
CFO
April 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
The Limits of Mercy The cost of cooperating with the SEC is high. The cost of not cooperating is even higher. Faced with financial penalties, career-ending bans, and possible criminal prosecution, more individuals are choosing to fight the SEC. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
SEC Probes Wachovia The Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement staff has notified Wachovia Bank that they may recommend the SEC file charges against it, as a result of an investigation into alleged anti-competitive bidding practices. |
InternetNews
May 31, 2007
Clint Boulton |
SEC Settles Backdating Cases With Mercury, Brocade The Securities and Exchange Commission settled stock-option backdating cases with Mercury Interactive and Brocade Communications Systems totaling $35 million. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Tim Gray |
Time Warner Settles Fraud Case Time Warner said today that it has agreed to pay $210 million in criminal and civil fines to settle a federal fraud case stemming from allegedly shady advertising deals within its America Online division. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Blotter SEC Front Running Probe... NASD Fines Bank of America... |
CFO
March 1, 2004
Kris Frieswick |
Bar Hopping Already considered one of the most severe civil penalties for securities violations, officer and director (O/D) bars have been embraced by the Securities and Exchange Commission with a new zeal. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Mara Der Hovanesian |
The SEC Isn't Finished With Hedge Funds The SEC is closing in on shady practices despite a setback from a federal court. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Morgan Stanley Wishes It Weren't Like Goldman U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Morgan misled investors in mortgage derivatives; similar to the charges against Goldman Sachs. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
On Trial This year, the wheels of justice may catch up to some corporate movers and shakers. |
Registered Rep.
May 21, 2004
Will Leitch |
Roye Blasts Revenue Sharing at ICI Conference; Strong Settles The SEC's director of its investment management division delivered perhaps his strongest remarks yet on mutual fund malfeasance. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Amy Borrus |
The SEC: Cracking Down On Spin The Securities & Exchange Commission is going after executives for skimpy or misleading disclosures in annual reports. |
Registered Rep.
December 2, 2003
Will Leitch |
Spitzer, OCC Issue Corporate Death Penalty The news came right before the Thanksgiving holiday, so you might have missed it. But let there be no doubt: The mutual fund investigations have now gone nuclear. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Dwyer & Thornton |
Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others? |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Hedge Funds Find An Escape Hatch The loophole: Locked-up funds don't require oversight. That means more risk for investors. |
Registered Rep.
February 25, 2009
John Churchill |
More Multi-Million Dollar Ponzis and Thousand-Dollar Teddy Bears! DOJ, SEC Bust and Freeze Assets of "Commodity Traders" Three new recent charges made by the SEC regarding alleged Ponzi schemes. |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2009
Farzad & Francis |
The SEC's Tough New Offensive on Insider Trading It's using wiretaps, informants, and high-tech software, as well as teaming with key federal prosecutors, to nab wrongdoers fast. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
Smith & Bleeker |
Who's More to Blame: Congress or the SEC? March Stock Madness -- Second Round: Let's bullet-point some of the failures of both Congress and the SEC to determine which is more to blame for the current crisis. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2007
John Churchill |
To Hedge Gets Harder The SEC proposed a rule in December that would raise the net worth requirements of investors in hedge funds to $2.5 million from $1 million, not including the value of one's home. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Lori Calabro |
In Your Own Defense Why representing finance executives in lawsuits is both an art and a science. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008 |
Blotter The SEC charged 11 people and three companies for an alleged conspiracy that raked in $64 million from 40,000 investors. |
InternetNews
April 8, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Former CA Execs Facing Up To Fraud Charges Former Computer Associates CFO Ira Zar and two others expected to plead guilty in court Thursday. |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Reason & Stuart |
Crackdown Alert After a GAO report documents a slowdown in the SEC's case generation and penalty volume under former chairman Christopher Cox, the regulator's new leaders talk tough. |
CFO
April 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Fraud Squad Federal investigators are on a crusade to elevate corporate misdeeds to criminal offenses. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Chairmen of Yore Speak Six former SEC chairmen pointed to quite a few regulatory challenges that loom large -- namely globalization of the world markets, the burgeoning market for complex synthetic securities, and the continued growth of hedge funds. |
Registered Rep.
February 4, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
NY AG Names Names -- Charges Ken Lewis With Fraud The New York Attorney General's office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. |
National Defense
November 2011
Piazza & Ayers |
Regulators Flex Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Muscles Continuing a trend that started late in the last decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission this year continues to raise the bar on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2011
John Grgurich |
5 Stocks Insiders Are Bullish On Nothing says bullish like buying shares of your own company. Look at these five companies that recently did: Morgan Stanley... General Motors... Chesapeake Energy... Chiquita Brands... Corning... |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2004
Jim Mueller |
Hang Up on This Stock Tip The SEC announced a warning against an investment scam that masquerades as a wrong phone number stock tip message left on the listener's voice mail or answering machine. |
Investment Advisor
December 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Democrats and Hedge Funds Will the new party in power turn up the regulatory heat? The SEC itself has gotten more vigilant and expanded its enforcement activities against hedge funds. |
CFO
March 1, 2011
Kimberly Blanton |
Fat Cats and Fall Guys When CEOs live large, CFOs risk paying a price. Two recent cases brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission put CFOs in the crosshairs for alleged abuse of corporate perks by their bosses. |
Registered Rep.
June 24, 2004
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley Sued by New Hampshire Regulators New Hampshire securities regulators are suing Morgan Stanley, charging that in 2002 the firm encouraged its brokers to sell proprietary mutual funds by using sales contests, a violation of NASD rules. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Jane Sasseen |
The SEC Is Eyeing Insider Stock Sales Executives are using inside information to boost returns when they sell stock through automatic trading plans. Now, the Securities & Exchange Commission is looking more closely at such trades and whether the rules governing them need to be tightened. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor. |
Registered Rep.
September 23, 2008 |
SEC Charges Miami Broker Gary Gross Gary Gross has been charged with fraud by the SEC for selling his elderly clients unsuitable investments. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
S&P Being Taken to the Woodshed The ratings agency will have to answer the SEC's questions about CDO ratings fiasco. |
