Securities Regulation
Wall Street Brokers Support Removing Liability Shield for Stock Exchanges
The government should strip U.S. stock exchanges of the legal status that protects them from most lawsuits, a trade group for brokers said. In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the ...
How Most of the Insurance Industry Escaped the Worst of the Financial Crisis
At a time when efforts are underway to require additional supervision of some large insurers, a new government report concludes that the insurance industry's own practices and the policies of state ...
Old-Fashioned Regulators Miss What’s New in Finance
Is the financial system any safer now than in 2008? There's been some progress but less than you might think. I argued last week that regulators should put in place much tougher bank capital ...
U.S. SEC Says As Red Flags Waved, SAC’s Cohen Waved Them
"Failure to supervise" is not the sort of charge that typically grabs Wall Street's attention. Unless the target is one of the world's best-known hedge fund managers. In an order on Friday, the U.S. ...
SEC Readies Rule on Disclosure of CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
Public companies would be required to disclose how much more their chief executives are paid than rank-and-file workers under a rule to be proposed next month by U.S. securities regulators, according ...
SEC Bans Gupta From Director, Officer Roles; Imposes $13.9M Fine
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta was ordered to pay a $13.9 million civil penalty and banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company for having illegally passed ...
SEC Officials Frustrated with Slow Pace of Dodd-Frank Rules
Top U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials are frustrated over lack of progress in finalizing rules for credit rating agencies and asset-backed securities (ABS), seen by regulators as ...
SEC Fraud Case Against Goldman Sach’s ‘Abacus’ Trader Goes to Trial
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission heads to trial Monday against a former Goldman Sachs bond trader in a case it says highlights what went wrong on Wall Street in the financial crisis. Jury ...