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Australian Securities & Investments Commission Chairman Greg Medcraft stated last week that Australia’s white collar criminal penalties were so weak that “it’s worth breaking the law to do the trade” and that Australia was a “paradise for white-collar criminals.” After a concerned call from the country’s Finance Minister, however, Medcraft quickly “hosed down” his prior […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for October 28, 2014.
The day Medicare officials began discussing whether to set new coverage limits on a costly new prostate-cancer treatment, the official in charge emailed three colleagues to put a “close hold” on the process. That meant: Keep quiet until an announcement later that month. Yet by the end of that same day, June 7, 2010, shares […]
Levitt, who is the SEC’s longest serving chairman, will work with payment processor BitPay and institutional exchange Vaurum to help “monitor business practices” and develop ways to market the new currency. via Former SEC chairman Levitt becomes advisor to bitcoin firms — Finextra
I have consistently tried to bring a ‘Nuts and Bolts’ approach to my writing about compliance. Last year when describing some of my writing on the building blocks of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance program to my friend Mary Flood, she said “That’s great but what about actually doing compliance?” … Her idea […]