Tag: SEC

Citigroup's affiliates will pay out $180 million to the investors hurt by the failure of the hedge funds, but without admitting guilt for breaking specific securities laws. (Getty Images file)

Citigroup hedge funds to pay $180 million in settlement

Joseph Lawler · August 17, 2015 3:49 pm

Participant hold their laptops in front of an illuminated wall at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers' congress, called 29C3, on December 28, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Patrick Lux/Getty Images)

Feds break up $100 million scheme to trade stocks using stolen press releases

Joseph Lawler · August 11, 2015 5:04 pm

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission building, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Washington.

Pay for CEOs to be compared with workers

Joseph Lawler · August 5, 2015 5:00 pm

White House: No indication of ‘malicious actors’ in halt of NYSE

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2015 6:27 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to propose a rule that would claw back compensation for executives who were awarded performance-based compensation that was later found to be based on accounting misstatements.

SEC proposes rule to take back executive pay for accounting errors

Joseph Lawler · July 1, 2015 6:13 pm

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo White attends a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Warren criticizes SEC chair: ‘Extremely disappointing’

Joseph Lawler · June 2, 2015 1:25 pm

Workers repair an oil well owned by the Yukos company April 24, 2002 in Nefteyugansk, Siberia. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Investors want SEC to require detailed climate risks from oil and gas industry

Zack Colman · April 17, 2015 7:00 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during the dedication of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Monday, March 30, 2015, in Boston. (AP Photo)Â

Warren: ‘Break up the biggest banks’

Joseph Lawler · April 15, 2015 6:34 pm

Securities and Exchange Commission officials circumvented federal salary rules to pay an employee a $315,000 salary and $120,000 in living expenses in just over a year, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. (Washington Examiner)

SEC listed wrong duty station for professor so it could pay him $435,000

Luke Rosiak · March 4, 2015 2:14 pm

Feds: Total Wealth paid off SEC with client funds

LocalLabs News Service · February 12, 2015 6:42 pm

AIG's 2008 collapse highlighted the need to identify non-bank threats to the financial system. (AP)

Regulators to overhaul system of naming risky financial firms

Joseph Lawler · February 5, 2015 12:40 am

Specialist Joseph Mastrolia, right, works with traders at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Obama calls for more money for financial regulators

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2015 6:40 pm