Insider Trading Bans Offer Hope to Enforcers
The SEC doesn’t need any help in identifying suspected insiders. Already this year, it has pressed charges in three high-profile insider trading act...
Insider Trading, IPOs and More Go Unpoliced in Government Shutdown
As the longest federal government shutdown in history drags on, President Trump is testing out a new slogan to drum up support for his border wall: "B...
New Allegations Reveal SEC Fell Victim to International Computer Hacking Scheme
The mounting tales of corporate data breaches tend to follow a familiar pattern. A major U.S. or multinational company—often a retailer—reveals...
Public Company Boards Prepare to Clean House (Members)
Any public company with a member of Congress sitting on its board can probably buy that farewell card and schedule the departure happy hour now. If am...
SEC Makes Belated Call for Cyber-risk Disclosures
In the history of computing, the year 2011 was a different era entirely. The Facebook “Wall” was still a thing (as was Google Buzz), IBM’s Watso...
Intel Response to “Meltdown” Raises Questions
For Intel investors, the news has gone from bad to worse to a full-blown “meltdown.” Meltdown, as we now know, is the name of a critical flaw t...