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The SEC settled two insider trading cases this week while bringing three investment fund fraud suits, two of which involved recidivists who are alleged to have diverted investor funds from their current scheme to make payments in their prior criminal …

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Rating agencies, officially known as nationally recognized statistical rating organizations or NRSROs, played a key role in the evolution of the market crisis. Accordingly, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act included a series of provisions bolstering their …

KEY FINDINGS OF THE STAFF REPORT ON RATING AGENCIES Read More »

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