A mentally ill doctor should not be forced to take medicine in a bid to make him competent to stand trial for the killing of a Yale University physician, a public defender told Connecticut’s highest court on Thursday. Assistant Public ...
Read More »SEC approves new conflict of interest limits for credit raters
Credit-rating firms, whose lapses played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis, will face new restrictions on conflicts of interest under rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Read More »No high-frequency crackdown in SEC blueprint for tighter control
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s plan advanced some new ideas while borrowing heavily from existing proposals and measures that already have support on Wall Street.
Read More »SEC deploying new tool to spot insider trading
The agency’s National Exam Analytics Tool will allow SEC examiners to analyze millions of trades for patterns that suggest suspicious activity “in a fraction of the time it has taken in years past."
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Read More »Watchdog group proposes more disclosure in auditor reports
Auditors would be required to disclose the most difficult parts of their opinion of a public company’s books under a proposal that would trigger the first change in 70 years to the reports.
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