Adam Storch, chief operating officer and managing executive of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, is leaving the agency at the end of this week to join Fannie Mae in Washington, D.C. Storch will be Vice President of Enterprise Planning and Reporting at Fannie Mae beginning July 7, 2014. via Enforcement Division COO Storch Leaving SEC to Join Fannie Mae –…
After a series of high-profile data breaches and warnings, corporate boards are waking to cyberthreats, grappling with security issues they once relegated to technology experts. via Boards Race to Bolster Cybersecurity – WSJ
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for June 27, 2014.
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Federal investigators rarely disclose details of insider-trading probes before decisions on what — if any — charges are publicly filed. But that’s the scenario unfolding in a newly escalated legal showdown between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the influential House Committee on Ways and Means. via Court fight bares SEC insider-trading probe — USA TODAY
Big violations are easy to define and the bad actors most always know they are engaging in wrongdoing, but what constitutes a small violation worthy of the costs and ramifications of a federal civil prosecution? Where will the SEC draw that blurry line between conduct that is unlawful versus merely unethical? Or, in the eyes of the SEC, is the…
Lorin L. Reisner, chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, announced yesterday that he is leaving government service for the private sector next month. Reisner is expected to join a law firm, the NYT reports, but Reisner did not identify which firm he may be joining. via SDNY Criminal Division…
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for June 25, 2014.
The government’s top credit-rating watchdog has kept a low profile since taking the job two years ago to help prevent another financial crisis. That may be about to change. Thomas J. Butler, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Credit Ratings, said he has referred multiple cases to the agency’s enforcement division and is helping complete several industry…
The Financial Conduct Authority has charged former equities trader at Schroders Investment Management Damian Frank Clarke with nine counts of insider dealing. Schroders says Clarke was dismissed in Feburary last year for “gross misconduct.” via Former Schroders trader charged with insider dealing — Funds Europe