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After setbacks, N.Y. prosecutors resume insider trading crackdown | Reuters
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are pursuing insider trading cases on a pace not seen since 2012 – before a major appellate ruling limited their ability to bring charges against hedge fund managers and other traders. So far this year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, known for high-profile prosecutions of wrongdoing on Wall Street, has announced charges […]
SEC’s IT Security Under Attack as It Attacks Others | McGuireWoods LLP
The Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported last week that the SEC has not sufficiently implemented information technology security upgrades in order to protect highly sensitive information from data breaches. The IG reported that SEC officials failed to deactivate idle user accounts, did not ensure that owners kept their […]
Compliance fail: Chinese bank employees publicly spanked for poor performance | Compliance Week
A disturbing video of a Chinese bank’s effort to improve employee performance — through public, violent spankings of employees — was posted yesterday in a BBC article. The video, which will make even the most hardened U.S. compliance officer cringe, shows a line of employees from Changzhi Rural Commercial Bank being subjected to an awful “team-building” workshop in […]
Securities Docket News Wire for June 21, 2016
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Securities Docket News Wire for June 20, 2016
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SEC prevails again in latest circuit court challenge to APs| Compliance Week
Constitutional challenges to the SEC’s use of administrative proceedings to carry out enforcement actions continue to find no success in federal circuit court. Last week, the Eleventh Circuit joined three other circuits that have considered and rejected such challenges when it ruled in the SEC’s favor in two cases that had been consolidated for appeal: SEC v. […]
U.S. Attorney on the Biggest Threats Businesses Face – WSJ
MR. BHARARA: There is no greater issue for people in business to be thinking about and caring about and being worried about than the cyberthreat. I think we have increased our resources with respect to cyber in my office, in just the seven years I’ve been there, by 10-fold. And the FBI, the Secret Service […]
Chipotle shareholders file lawsuit against restaurant, claim insider trading – AP
Some shareholders of Chipotle stock have filed a suit against the Mexican restaurant chain, saying that company executives awarded themselves “hundreds of millions” of dollars just before stock prices plummeted in response to an E. coli breakout, according to Colorado Public Radio. via Chipotle shareholders file lawsuit against restaurant, claim insider trading – AP
Securities Docket News Wire for June 18, 2016
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