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Tag: Gary Gensler

Congress tightening using pipe wrench

Gensler Looks to Tighten Rules for 10b5-1 Plans

Congress tightening using pipe wrench

While their companies were busy last year developing vaccines to help fight the coronavirus, executives at major pharmaceutical companies were busy cashing in on stock sales. Their trades involved more than 8.5 million shares of stock and p...

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SEC Blesses Nasdaq’s New Rules for Board Diversity

SEC Blesses Nasdaq’s New Rules for Board Diversity

SEC Blesses Nasdaq’s New Rules for Board Diversity

The Securities and Exchange Commission last week approved a request from the Nasdaq stock exchange to enact rules that would prod listed companies to diversify their boards of directors. We previously told you late last year about what Nasd...

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Ethereum Coin: SEC's Gary Gensler’s Crypto Campaign Starts to Take Shape

Gensler’s Crypto Campaign Starts to Take Shape

Ethereum Coin: SEC's Gary Gensler’s Crypto Campaign Starts to Take Shape

Cryptocurrency evangelists are quick to tell you that digital money will be the foundation of our monetary system in the future. On that theory, at least, it counts as “infrastructure.” Capitol Hill lawmakers apparently agreed when they stu...

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SEC Responds to Chinese Crackdown with New Disclosure Requirements

SEC Responds to Chinese Crackdown with New Disclosure Requirements

SEC Responds to Chinese Crackdown with New Disclosure Requirements

Time to add a new term to your financial vocabulary: variable interest entities, also known VIEs. They’re playing a key role in an escalating economic tiff between the United States and China, and U.S. disclosure rules are changing as a res...

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Five Things to Know About the SEC’s Regulatory Agenda

Five Things to Know About the SEC’s Regulatory Agenda

Five Things to Know About the SEC’s Regulatory Agenda

The annual release of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s regulatory agenda is typically a dry affair in which the agency rehashes priorities with which close observers are already familiar. Not so this year, as a change in the White H...

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