Hugh Kennedy
The first-ever charges against a broker-dealer for failing to protect a customer’s material nonpublic information will result in a $5 million penalty for Wells Fargo ...
The fallout from the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers continues. This time the cost is $15 million—the penalty Barclays Capital ($12.9B in AUM) will pay ...
The good news: the SEC found the firm’s compliance manual contained policies and procedures “reasonably designed to prevent several violations of the Advisers Act.” The ...
The new president of the North American Securities Administrators Association began his one-year term last week and simultaneously announced action on one of his stated ...
Hedge fund advisers lured by rapid growth in the more than $300 billion alternative mutual funds market are increasingly becoming involved with the funds either ...
The SEC is 90% toward tackling its mandated Dodd-Frank rulemaking. In recent testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Chair Mary Jo White noted that Dodd-Frank ...
Faking research expenses, portfolio pumping and marking the close are all featured in an SEC enforcement action announced this month against a Minneapolis-based hedge fund ...
State-registered investment advisers still have work to do when it comes to cybersecurity practices, reveals a new survey from the North American Securities Administrators Association. It ...
Looks like the SEC has declared defeat in its battle to get the Securities Investor Protection Corporation to insure against investor losses incurred in the ...