It ill serves the public welfare for a governmental entity to pretend to be protecting the public when, in fact, it cannot do so because it is so egregiously underfunded and unsupported.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators filed civil fraud charges Friday against three former executives of the parent of IndyMac Bank, accusing them of mis...

Without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch unit has agreed to pay $10 million to settle the Securities and Exc...

WASHINGTON — Charles Schwab Corp. on Tuesday agreed to pay $118.9 million to settle regulators' civil charges over disclosure of the risks of a ...

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As we turn the corner into the new year, corporate counsel need to identify important legal issues facing their companies in 2011.

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday postponed a vote to settle a case with the Obama administration's former auto in...

WASHINGTON — The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found no hard evidence that the SEC timed the announcement of its fraud case...

It's no secret that venture capital and angel investing is 'clubby,' dominated mostly by middle-aged men. According to a 2007 study of angel investo...

Congress "ducked" on financial regulation, neglecting to solve the problems that caused the financial crisis, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt said. ...

WASHINGTON -- BP says the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department are conducting informal inquiries into securities matters aris...

Goldman Sachs is preparing to file a full-blown, point-by-point defense against the fraud allegations filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission,...

My father was a professional gambler and used to carry a roll of money that he called "walking around" money. Walking around money is what the SEC settled for in the Goldman Sachs case today.

une 16 (Bloomberg) -- Congress's proposed overhaul of U.S. bank regulation wouldn't have averted the 2008 financial crisis and does too little to prev...

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But more than a year after Schapiro took office, the SEC has not yet written into the Wall Street rulebook the short-selling limits -- or most of the ...

Wall Street's wrongdoers may have officially met their match. After less than six months on the job, Robert Khuzami, the newly appointed top prosecuto...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday accused three former top executives of collapsed mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp. of fraud,...

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

WASHINGTON — A key House lawmaker wants to make credit rating agencies – widely criticized for failing to give investors adequate warning ...

By Barry Ritholtz Note: this post also appeared on Ritholtz's blog, The Big Picture. The problems at the SEC were decades in the making. The a...

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