SEC news from FierceComplianceIT

The whistleblower provisions (whistleblowers news) of Sarbanes-Oxley got a lot of media coverage. But ultimately it proved really hard for whistleblowers to qualify for Sarbox protection. We've... Read more...

On Monday the Supreme Court handed down a decision that largely preserves the controversial Sarbanes-Oxley accounting rule. Necessitating only minor changes, the ruling maintains the Public Company... Read more...

Did market makers shirk their duty to provide liquidity during the May 6th Flash Crash? A lot of speculation has been swirling around the issue. The SEC (SEC news) has heard rumors to the effect that... Read more...

Are regulators serious about cracking down on naked short selling? Fortune puts it this way: "Securities industries watchdogs have had it with naked short selling--and if the biggest securities firms... Read more...

Despite a lot of fits and starts, most accounting professionals still think that a mandated move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS news) from U.S. GAAP will happen at some point... Read more...

Traders notes that although the comment period for the SEC's (SEC news) proposal to put more risk checks into the sponsored access (sponsored access news) process ended March 29, letters on the topic... Read more...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB news) really had little choice but to open an investigation of Ernst & Young (Ernst & Young news) and its role in the failure of Lehman... Read more...

The world was looking to the SEC for clarity on the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards in the U.S (regulation news). The SEC responded by issuing a modified timeline, but in... Read more...

The SEC has certainly taken its lumps recently. The financial crisis in general was not kind to the agency, but it was the Bernard Madoff scandal that pushed the agency's reputation deep into the... Read more...

You might think that start-ups have been essentially priced out of the IPO market--due as much to Sarbanes Oxley as anything else. That certainly seems to be the conventional wisdom, and has been for... Read more...