Elisse Walter discusses topics ranging from diversity to enforcement actions.

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Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2013 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a China-based petrochemical company and its former chief financial officer with accounting and disclosure violations, and they a...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese mining equipment company at the centre of an alleged accounting fraud was also involved in a web of insider loans and asset transfers prior to its purchase by Caterpillar Inc., public filings show. The transactions, whil...

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Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2012 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three executives with repeatedly lying to investors about the operations and financial condition of an Irvine, Calif.-based comp...

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2012-191

Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 2012 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the co-founder of a Chicago-based investment firm with misleading investors in two private equity offerings, and charged the o...

Washington, D.C., July 19, 2012 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the chairman and CEO of a Santa Ana, Calif.-based computer storage device company with insider trading in a secondary offering of his stock shares with knowledge o...

A recent fraud prevention program highlighted techniques to prevent and detect white-collar crime, with Crazy Eddie CFO and Jonathan Marks of Crowe Horwath offering insight.

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Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that three former directors have agreed to more than $1.6 million in monetary sanctions to settle charges that they were involved...

The following statement was presented by Anton R. Valukas, the Examiner in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case, to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment on April 6.

Business historians are hailing the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, a.k.a. Dodd-Frank, as a legislative landmark, and rightly so. Like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act before it, Dodd-Frank expanded government turf even further into the board’s domain.

Risk assessment of executive compensation plans should become a routine, annual task for every Compensation Committee.

With the worst of the financial crisis now behind them, Washington policymakers are turning their attention away from the financial sector and toward businesses in general.