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Despite wide-scale recent turnover in its senior leadership and in the Enforcement Division, the SEC says a broader look at movement among its most senior officers shows that departures have consistently been between 15% -18% in the past four fiscal years. via A Look at the Recent Turnover in the SEC’s Senior Leadership – Compliance […]
The agency’s policy change occasioned a lot of speculation about how admissions to the SEC would impact investor class actions, and how defendants and their lawyers might try to mitigate the harm. Now, however, we’ll get some actual answers. SEC lawyers obtained their first admission under the agency’s new policy on Monday, when the hedge […]
Mary Jo White is the Securities and Exchange Commission’s third boss in nine months. And it is even harder to keep up with the rest of the turnover near the top of the nation’s securities-law enforcer. In barely the past year, four of the agency’s five divisional chiefs have stepped down, including the top SEC […]
Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department is nearing decisions on a number of probes involving large financial firms and that he plans to announce new cases stemming from the economic meltdown in the coming months. “My message is, anybody who’s inflicted damage on our financial markets should not be of the belief that […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for August 20, 2013.