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Month: February 2022

Abandoned cloth-covered pioneer wagon, deserted like BlockFi

Landmark Crypto Settlement Still Leaves Big Question Unanswered

Abandoned cloth-covered pioneer wagon, deserted like BlockFi

Cryptocurrency platform BlockFi Lending counts “pragmatic pioneering” among its values. According to the company website, that means aspiring to “inspire clients to think about wealth management differently” and “changing the status quo.” B...

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Cat playing with a ruler, measuring financial performance

SEC Proposes New Pay vs. Performance Rule

Cat playing with a ruler, measuring financial performance

How should a public company define success? It’s the kind of abstract question that might appear on a college economics exam. But for more than a decade, it has also been a very real question plaguing the Securities and Exchange Commission....

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A Quick Response QR Code for GAAP

Ruling Spotlights Hole in Crypto Accounting

A Quick Response QR Code for GAAP

If you were one of the millions of viewers who tuned in over the weekend to watch the Los Angeles Rams outlast the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI, you saw a barrage of commercials for cryptocurrencies and crypto-related businesses. On...

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Pug using a laptop, representing the cause of a catastrophic data breach

Gensler Previews Expanded Role of SEC in Cybersecurity

Pug using a laptop, representing the cause of a catastrophic data breach

Not so long ago, a consumer data breach at a big-box retailer would turn into headline news for days. Hackers are now setting their sights on bigger targets like government networks and oil pipelines, which raises the stakes for national se...

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Dark forest with a little fog representative of climate change disclosure

Intelligize Report: SEC Steps Up Focus on Quality, Accuracy of Climate Risk Disclosures

Dark forest with a little fog representative of climate change disclosure

As regulatory authorities have ramped up scrutiny of corporations’ reporting on environmental, social and governance issues, they’re probing more deeply into the quality and accuracy of information contained in companies’ public disclosures...

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