The meeting schedule of a former official of the Securities and Exchange Commission provides a detailed roadmap into the agency’s thinking as it began to weigh how best to reign in the burgeoning digital-asset business, but it could also buttress the growing sentiment that ...Read More

Eleven of the world’s largest banks and brokerages will collectively pay $1.8 billion in fines to resolve regulatory investigations over their employees’ use of messaging applications that broke record-keeping rules, regulators said Tuesday. The firms include brokerage units of Bank of America Corp., Barclays PLC,  Citigroup, Credit ...Read More

Gary Gensler is coming after digital currency companies. In his recent opinion piece published on the Wall Street Journal, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fired a warning shot at the digital currency industry. There’s no reason to treat the crypto ...Read More

The SEC’s decision on Friday to reverse Trump-era restrictions on its whistleblower program divided the five-member body, with its newest member citing concerns about the program’s secrecy that were outlined in a recent Bloomberg Law investigation. “The Whistleblower Program has come under increasing scrutiny from ...Read More