Departures are in full swing at the SEC since SEC Chair Mary Jo White announced this past November that she will be stepping down from the top post, sparking an exodus of high-level personnel (http://bit.ly/2ggL1lI). In her wake, Michael Piwowar has been serving as the SEC acting chairman. Not long after White’s announcement, Andrew J…. Read More >>
SEC and CFTC Reinforce Whistleblower Programs
U.S. regulators the SEC and the CFTC are reaffirming their commitment to make their whistleblower systems more accessible to industry participants and financially rewarding. Most recently, the SEC has given a whistleblower an award of more than $700,000 to “a company outsider who conducted a detailed analysis that led to a successful SEC enforcement action,”… Read More >>
