SEC Weighs Four-Day Deadline for Firms to Disclose Major Hacks March 9, 2022 By Ben Bain Companies would face more pressure to alert the public of hacks or other significant cybersecurity incidents under a new plan...
Wall Street, Tech Firms Fear SEC Climate Disclosure Will Trigger Lawsuits June 29, 2021 By Ben Bain The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may make corporations reveal more about climate risks in key regulatory filings, a push...
SEC Throws Another Wrench into Wall Street’s SPAC Machine April 13, 2021 By Ben Bain, Heather Perlberg, Gillian Tan and Crystal Tse U.S. regulators are throwing another wrench into Wall Street’s SPAC machine by cracking down on how accounting rules apply to...
SEC Warns SPACs Aren’t a Way to Avoid Securities Laws April 9, 2021 By Ben Bain The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has a fresh warning for the booming SPAC market: Blank-check companies aren’t an end-around...
SPAC Mania Anxiety Grows; Bankers, Regulators, Insurers Try to Keep Pace April 1, 2021 By Gillian Tan, Ben Bain, Heather Perlberg and Crystal Tse Anxiety is growing that the wellspring of special-purpose acquisition companies, a 2020s echo of the dot-com mania of the 1990s,...
Trump Administration Forms Financial Frauds Task Force July 16, 2018 By Ben Bain and David McLaughlin In forming a new task force to protect consumers from fraud, the Trump administration made clear that one of the...
Trump’s SEC Considering Shielding Companies from Investor Class Action Suits January 29, 2018 By Ben Bain In its determination to reverse a two-decade slump in U.S. stock listings, a regulator might offer companies an extreme incentive...
Ecuador Earthquake’s Death Toll Rises; AIR Worldwide Comments April 18, 2016 By Ben Bain and Nathan Gill World leaders from the Vatican to Washington offered support to Ecuador as casualties mounted following one of the strongest earthquakes...