WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission says it has set aside about $450 million for payments to outside whistleblowers whose inform...

If control fraud were rare then the proposed financial incentives for whistleblowers would be more dubious. But the current epidemic of accounting control frauds has caused massively greater damage than did their S&L counterparts.

Whistleblower provisions do nothing except burden business with more adversaries and wasted time of senior people, which could be much better used competing in the marketplaces.

There is no one comprehensive law that protects whistleblowers from suffering repercussions for telling the truth, even though their claims may be valid and their disclosures spare the public a great deal of pain and expense.

One of the best kept secrets of the financial reform bill is tough whistleblower laws to protect bank workers who expose shady lending, credit card and fee practices. But do U.S. bank workers know about the new protections?

There's a new whistle blower in town, and he deserves a look-see. Hhis name is Ilya Eric Kolchinsky, and the company he's blowing the whistle on is his former employer, Moody's Investors Service.

The new Wall Street reform law includes protections for front-line bank workers to blow the whistle, which means they can now be our first line of defense against predatory banking practices.

The first thing we need to do to prevent more catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon is to change our laws so that workers can feel comfortable speaking up when they see something dangerous.