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David Marcus, the head of Facebook’s cryptocurrency projects, on Wednesday said that Bitcoin is digital gold, but it’s not a good currency for transactions. “I don’t think of Bitcoin as a currency. It’s actually not a great medium of exchange because of it’s volatility,” Marcus said speaking at the New York Times DealBook Conference in […]
In fiscal year 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission created a specialized unit (one of only five in its enforcement division “dedicated to particular highly specialized and complex areas of securities law“) devoted to enforcing the FCPA. The question arises however: does the SEC really even need a specific FCPA unit? via Does The SEC […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission brought a diverse mix of 862 enforcement actions in fiscal year 2019, of which 526 were “standalone” actions of which the plurality, 36%, involved advisory and investment company issues. The securities regulator’s enforcement division notes in its just-released annual report that it also obtained judgments and orders totaling more than […]