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Bear Stearns

On March 20, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said the collapse of Bear Stearns was due to a lack of confidence, not a lack of capital.

Black Scorpion Arnis

Capt. Teodosio organized and founded Black Scorpion Arnis International in his hometown of Balete, Aklan, Philippines in 1969, and was formalized and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Trade and Industry on November 10, 1982.

David Karr

In late 1978, as Occidental Petroleum was attempting an unfriendly takeover of the Mead Corporation, Karr told a bizarre story in secret testimony before the Securities and Exchange Commission.

First Consolidated Bank

In December 1996, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the bank's amendment to operate as a private development bank in accordance with Republic Act No. 7906, otherwise known as the Thrift Bank Act of 1995.

H. David Kotz

In December 2007, Kotz next became the Inspector General at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), following the resignation of his predecessor, Walter Stachnik, who stepped down after a Senate report criticized his performance.

Howard Francis Corcoran

He served in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1933 to 1934, worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1934 to 1935, an was a legal associate for the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1935 to 1938.

Hugh Carey

Paul, who served as White House Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton as well as 77th Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, died of cancer in 2001.

Infogroup

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JB Carlson

On Thursday, July 22, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission called for tighter federal regulation of the life-insurance secondary market while a Government Accountability Office report cited inconsistencies in regulation across states.

Marshall Cogan

Among Cogan's partners at CBWL were Sandy Weill, later chairman and CEO of Citigroup, Arthur Levitt, later the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Roger Berlind a noted Broadway producer and long-time member of the board of Lehman Brothers.

Matter Under Inquiry

According to former SEC employee and whistleblower Darcy Flynn, as reported by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone in 2011, the agency routinely destroyed thousands and thousands of MUI documents related to investigations of alleged crimes committed by Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, SAC Capital, and other financial companies involved in the Great Recession that the SEC was supposed to have been regulating.

Peer-to-peer lending

The license and registration can be obtained at a securities regulatory agency such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S., the Ontario Securities Commission in Ontario, Canada, the Autorité des marchés financiers in France and Quebec, Canada, or the Financial Services Authority in the U.K.

University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index

Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt opined that this might present a fairness issue and destroy confidence in the market by the public.

WQOM

However, soon after a party celebrating the launch of nighttime operations, Bleidt sent a taped confession to the Securities and Exchange Commission admitting that he'd turned his asset management firm into a massive Ponzi scheme.


see also

10K

Form 10-K, a form used by the Securities and Exchange Commission

1156 Shadow Hill Way, Beverly Hills, California, 90210

Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that it housed the International Monetary Reserve (IMR), described by the Italian press as "one of the most diabolical schemes in recent memory", and having executives and directors including fraudsters appearing in major international news stories including Pearlasia Gamboa and David Korem.

2003 mutual fund scandal

On November 20, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced “charges concerning undisclosed market timing against Harold J. Baxter and Gary L. Pilgrim in the Commissions’ pending action in federal district court in Philadelphia.”

An Act to exempt a particular class of securities from the Securities and Exchange Act

The bill H.R. 701, an act to amend a provision of the Securities Act of 1933 directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to add a particular class of securities to those exempted under such Act to provide a deadline for such action, was a bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives in the 113th United States Congress.

Douglas Clayton

Clayton is a director of Kingdom Breweries (Cambodia), trustee of the Center for Khmer Studies, and served as Technical Advisor to the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia.

Exchange-traded fund

Under existing regulations, a new ETF must receive an order from the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, giving it relief from provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 that would not otherwise allow the ETF structure.

Gary Weiss

The book is critical of hedge funds, mutual funds, the Wall Street securities arbitration process, the New York Stock Exchange, and former Securities and Exchange Commission chairmen Arthur Levitt and William H. Donaldson.

Khuzami

Robert Khuzami (born 1956), director of the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former United States federal prosecutor and general counsel of Deutsche Bank AG

Paul Atkins

Paul S. Atkins, former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Richard Walker

Richard H. Walker, general counsel at Deutsche Bank and former Enforcement Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

SEC Office of the Whistleblower

In the Office of the Inspector General Evaluation of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Whistleblower Program, Jan, 18 2013 the program was outlined by the Inspector General providing some insight into it inner workings.

Stephen Friedman

Stephen J. Friedman, American academic and administrator who served as commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission

William Cary

William L. Cary (1910–1983), Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission