securitiesdocket.com - 2/23/2009
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Additional details have emerged on the chain of events that led to counsel for the Stanford Financial Group withdrawing from representing the company and disaffirming all prior statements made to the SEC regarding his former client.
The Memphis Daily News reports that on Tuesday, February ...
The SEC
blogmaverick.com 11/30/2008 — First let me say that this has nothing to do with me, but given my interest in all things financial and the government during this financial crisis, I read with interest the Office of Inspector General’s Report to Congress regarding the SEC.
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America's Fear of Competition
tbm.thebigmoney.com 1/24/2009 — Although everybody claims to love the market, nobody really likes the rough-and-tumble of competition that produces the essential "creative destruction" of capitalism. At bottom, this abhorrence of competition and change are the common theme that ...
The SEC
blogmaverick.com 11/17/2008 — I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job.
November 17, 2008
RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District
for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
Mark Cuban today ...
How the New SEC Enforcement Director Can Help Restore Investor Confidence
securitiesdocket.com 4/14/2009 — by Bruce Carton
Robert Khuzami began his new job as director of the Enforcement Division at the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30. His arrival marks the first change in leadership for the Enforcement Division since 200
Khuzami joins the SEC from Deutsche Bank AG in New York, ...
SEC looks to reassure investors
(Reuters)
news.yahoo.com 2/8/2009 — Reuters - Securities and Exchange Commission officials looked to reassure investors on Friday that they would reinvigorate the agency's policing of Wall Street, improve the quality of credit ratings and said they expect to bring more cases against ...
SEC Heal Thyself: Compliance Program Revamped
securitiesdocket.com 6/9/2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission just hasn’t had enough bad news recently, so last month the media piled on even more: a probe of insider-trading allegedly going on inside the SEC.
Specifically, the agency’s inspector general has found evidence of “suspicious activity, appearances of ...
Today’s Testimony of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Before Senate Subcommittee
securitiesdocket.com 6/2/2009 — Today, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. A copy of her prepared testimony is available here. Key sections of her testimony are laid out below:
»»REINVIGORATING SEC ...
SEC Self-Funding: The Time Has Come
feedproxy.google.com 9/9/2009 — B. Carton
As I argued in this column last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission budget has been well below where it should be for several years. This shortfall has caused the SEC to suffer a 10 percent reduction in staff and a cut of more than 50 percent in its new technology ...
Fiscal Year 2009: The SEC’s Year from Hell
securitiesdocket.com 24 days ago — For the Securities and Exchange Commission, which operates on a fiscal year that ends every September, Oct. 1, 2009, could not come soon enough. It seems almost beyond dispute that the agency’s fiscal 2009 was the most dismal in its history, and perhaps the most transformational.
Now it ...
Schmuck-o-Meter Reading: 463 SPs —
The Big Money 2/20/2009
It’s been a few days since we spoke about R. Allen Stanford, the guy who’s trying to steal Bernie Madoff’s schmuck-o’-the-year title. Since then Stanford has been found in Virginia ( where he was very courteous to the FBI ), caused bank runs in ...
Today’s Schmuck-o-Meter Reading 461 SPs —
The Big Money 2/26/2009
Perhaps Bernie harbored some aspirations for a wrestling career? According to a report from New York magazine's Daily Intel and the New York Times' DealBook , the 17 th -floor offices of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were referred ...
Business this week —
The Economist: Full print edition 2/26/2009
America’s Treasury released details about the “stress tests” that are being applied under the new Capital Assistance Programme. These gauge the capacity of banks with more than $100 billion in assets to weather a downturn under an ...
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