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Stock Market Rebound Raises Red Flags For Economists, Investors

The Washington Post | Martha C. White | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Dow Jones, Stock Market Rise, The Center for Economic and Policy Research, Charles E. Schumer, Federal Reserve, Russell 2000, Stock Market, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, Business News

With a close over 10,270 on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average had its best showing of 2009. Like the day a few weeks earlier when it broke the ...

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House Panel Votes To Permanently Exempt Small Firms From Part Of Post-Enron Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Worldcom, Scott Garrett, Arthur Levitt, Barney Frank, Enron, Obama Administration, Investors, John Adler, Rahm Emanuel, Mary Schapiro, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Financial Crisis, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

A House panel voted Wednesday to permanently exempt more than half of all publicly traded companies from a seven-year-old post-Enron measure designed ...

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Obama Administration Helps House Democrat Gut Post-Enron Reforms

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Scott Garrett, Arthur Levitt, Barney Frank, Obama Administration, Carolyn Maloney, John Adler, Paul Kanjorski, Consumer Federation of America, Rahm Emanuel, Mary Schapiro, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Financial Crisis, Investor-Protections, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

With the White House's blessing, a House panel voted Tuesday to water down a key post-Enron measure designed to protect investors. In a voice vote, m...

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New SEC Website Offers Advice To Investors

DailyFinance | Michelle Leder | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Finra, Websites, Securities and Exchange Commission, Investors, Mary Schapiro, Business News

Instead of trying to be all things to all the people the SEC serves -- they include investors, advisors, fund managers, lawyers and others -- investor...

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Adam Storch: SEC Hires 29-Year-Old Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec For Key Role

Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Adam Storch, Mary Schapiro, Business News

UPDATE 10/21: There have been a few financial insiders who've raised an eyebrow over Storch's hire. Zero Hedge pointed to a big flaw in Storch's backg...

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Merrill-BofA: Judge Jed Rakoff Exposes the Failures of the SEC

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch Bank of America Merger, Bank of America, Merril Lynch Bonuses, Bernard Madoff, Robert Kuzami, SEC Fines, Judge Jed Rakoff, Mary Schapiro, Business News

Bank of America executives were paid $5.8 billion in bonuses when they merged with Merrill Lynch. Shareholders were not merely misled by the banks, but fed a bold-faced lie.

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Credit Rating Agencies: New Rules Proposed By SEC

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Flash Trading, Hedge Funds, Mary Schapiro, Flash Stock Orders, Flash Orders, Securities Exchange Commission, Flash Orders Ban, Business News

WASHINGTON — Regulators on Thursday proposed rules designed to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for credit rating compan...

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SEC Officials Promise Changes After Madoff Failure

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Madoff, Mary Schapiro, Business News

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Madoff Report Indicted Entire Regulatory System: Newsweek

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Report, Mary Schapiro, Ponzi Scheme, Sec, Securities Exchange Commission, Michael Hirsh, Business News

In the days immediately after Bernie Madoff's arrest, some enforcement experts I talked to speculated that the errant financier might have been an hon...

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SEC's Tough Talk Won't Stop Madoff Flim Flams

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Industry, Senate, Congress, Sec, President Obama, Mary Schapiro, Pequot Capital, Madoff Scams, Bernie Madoff, Wall Street, Financial Regulation, Business News

Ensuring there's no more Madoff type shenanigans has less to do with the SEC having more money, more staff, and more rules than with having the political will to crack the whip on the Wall Street.

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Is The SEC Tough Enough?

AP | RACHEL BECK | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Hank Greenberg, General Electric, Bank of America, Mary Schapiro, Securities Exchange Commission, Business News

NEW YORK — The government appears to be getting tough on corporate shenanigans, securing $83 million in fines last week from Bank of America and...

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Geithner Takes On Regulators In Financial Overhaul

nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Bank Reform, Tim Geithner, Mary Schapiro, Federal Reserve, Bank Regulation, Sheila Bair, Business News

WASHINGTON -- In what has become a routine spectacle, financial regulators went to Congress this week and raised objections to major portions of Presi...

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SEC Moves Closer To Banning Flash Orders

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business

Read More: High-Frequency Trading, Sec, Flash Orders, Mary Schapiro, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nasdaq, Business News

NEW YORK — The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving toward banning a trading practice that gives some brokerages a split-second advantag...

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Geithner Goes On Profanity-Laced Tirade As Bank Regulators Push Back

Posted 09.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, Federal Reserve, Geithner Tirade, Mary Schapiro, Sheila Bair, Finanical Reform, Geithner Profanity, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner unleashed a profanity-laced tirade on bank regulators at a private meeting last Friday, according to a Wall Street Jou...

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SEC Acted Properly In Stanford Investigation: Watchdog

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Stanford Financial, R. Allen Stanford, Inspector General David Kotz, Stanford, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission had been actively investigating the banking business of billionaire R. Allen Stanford for mo...

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SEC, FDIC Say Council Should Be Supercop, Not Fed

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Fed-Supercop, Sec, Barack Obama, Mary Schapiro, Sheila Bair, Federal Reserve, Business News

WASHINGTON — Key regulators on Thursday broke with the Obama administration, reaffirming their belief that some new powers to monitor big instit...

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SEC Chair Floats Ratings Agency Crackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Rating Shopping, Ratings Agencies, S&P, SEC Chairman, Mary Schapiro, Moody's, Business News

The Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Schapiro floated the possibility of cracking down on a particularly egregious Wall Street habit at a...

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Madoff Whistleblower Markopolos Blasts SEC But Praises New Chair Schapiro

BusinessWeek | Aaron Pressman | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Markopolos Madoff, Madoff, Madoff Whistleblower, Harry Markopolos, SEC Chair Schapiro, Markopolos, Markopolos Schapiro, Mary Schapiro, Business News

Chartered financial analyst Harry Markopolos spent 10 years unsuccessfully trying to convince the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate Bern...

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SEC Chair Mary Schapiro's Previous Agency Was Soft On Enforcement: Report

Legal Times | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: FINRA Enforcement, Sec, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Mary Schapiro, Mary Schapiro Sec, Schapiro Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission, Finra, SEC Chair, Business News

An analysis conducted out of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's Washington office shows the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority - the independent secur...

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SEC Head Fights Obama Financial Watchdog Plan

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Banking Regulation, Mary Schapiro, Obama Financial Regulation, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Securities and Exchange Commission, Consumer Protection, Business News

WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is objecting to a plan being weighed by the Obama administration to create a new...

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SEC May Lose Power in Regulatory Overhaul

bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt and Jesse Westbrook | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Mary Schapiro, Federal Reserve, Regulation, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bank Regulation, Financial Regulation, Business News

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration may call for stripping the Securities and Exchange Commission of some of its powers under a regulatory ...

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The Farce Called FINRA Has No Shame

Dan Solin | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Finra, Investing, Ars, Mary Schapiro, Business News

FINRA's Board of Governors is a who's who of the securities industry. They "govern" their fellow brokers the same way the SEC "governed" Bernie Madoff.

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SEC Chief Wants Power To Regulate Hedge Funds

Bloomberg | Jesse Westbrook | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec Regulation Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds, Economy, Mary Schapiro, Financial Crisis, Sec, Hedge Funds Sec, Business News

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should be given authority to regulate what hedge funds can buy and how much money they can borrow to maxim...

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