Archive for the ‘sec’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
How bad is the relationship between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? What are the tensions? Can they actually work together to protect the markets? Now we have insiders saying they hate each other.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
SEC lawsuits have a negative impact on the share price. But are some violations worse than others? Is there a difference between litigation being settled with fines and without? What happens if it’s just left pending? A study answers these questions.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Why was the SEC asleep at the wheel in the lead-up to the subprime crisis? Bad risk management and it did not want to clamp down on this market.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Another sign that the Securities and Exchange Commission is pulling back from Sarbanes-Oxley. On Friday, the SEC announced that it’s giving yet another delay to the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley to smaller public companies
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Siemens faces a fine of 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion), a figure that would wipe out a full year’s profit, after a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Senior executives of German electronics and engineering group Siemens AG today met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the bribery scandal at Siemens.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
This week’s extraordinary decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to let companies deny shareholders access to annual proxy ballots is another victory for the bosses and companies like General Motors and Bank of America to block democracy.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The Government Accountability Office has slated the SEC for having shoddy internal controls and material weaknesses, yet again
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Corporations are not really doing that well when it comes to explaining to investors how executives are compensated and what exactly they have to do to earn their bucks, says the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced it’s clamping down on the ratings agencies in the wake of the subprime debacle. But a closer look at what the SEC will tell you that the new measures will do nothing to protect investors.
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