Justice Department to Offer More Rewards to Corporate Whistleblowers March 8, 2024 By Karen Freifeld and Chris Prentice The U.S. Justice Department is expanding its whistleblower program to coax more tipsters to disclose corporate misconduct by offering monetary...
SEC Drops Some Emissions Disclosure Requirements From Draft Climate Rules February 23, 2024 By Chris Prentice, Isla Binnie, Jarrett Renshaw and Douglas Gillison The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has removed some of its most ambitious greenhouse gas emission disclosure requirements from...
SEC Hits More Wall Street Firms With $81M in Fines Over Record-Keeping February 12, 2024 By Chris Prentice A new group of Wall Street firms has agreed to pay more than $81 million in civil penalties to settle...
SEC Says No to New Crypto Rules; Coinbase Asks Court to Review December 18, 2023 By Chris Prentice and Michelle Price The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday denied a petition by Coinbase Global seeking new rules from the agency...
SEC Sues SolarWinds for Concealing Risks Before Massive Hack November 20, 2023 By Chris Prentice, Jonathan Stempel and Raphael Satter The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30 sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive,...
US SEC Enforcement Collected Nearly $5B in Financial Remedies Last Year November 15, 2023 By Chris Prentice The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed 784 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ran through September, garnering...
Elon Musk Asks Court to Reject SEC’s Bid to Make Him Testify in Twitter Probe November 6, 2023 By Chris Prentice and Jody Godoy Elon Musk asked a federal judge on Nov. 2 not to force him to testify in the U.S. Securities and...
SEC Sues SolarWinds for Concealing Cyber Risks Before Massive Hack October 31, 2023 By Chris Prentice, Jonathan Stempel and Raphael Satter The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying...
Progressive Groups Ask DOJ to Reverse New M&A Safe Harbor Policy October 31, 2023 By Chris Prentice More than a dozen groups are pressing the U.S. Justice Department to retreat from a new policy they say gives...
US Fed Fines Deutsche Bank $186M for Failing to Beef Up Money Laundering Controls July 20, 2023 By Pete Schroeder and Chris Prentice The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it fined Deutsche Bank and its U.S. affiliates $186 million for failing to sufficiently...