Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

364 results about this entity

Period: 18 Oct 2004 - 24 Sep 2024

Goldman Sachs compliance staffer charged with insider trading

A former Goldman Sachs staffer has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with making nearly half a million dollars by stealing non-public information from the bank's email system and using it to make illegal trades ahead of client mergers.

SEC proposes rules to enhance transparency and oversight of alternative trading systems

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has voted to propose rules to enhance operational transparency and regulatory oversight of alternative trading systems (ATSs) that trade stocks listed on a national securities exchange (NMS stocks), including “dark pools.”

SEC flash crash exec joins Ernst & Young

EY announced today that Gregg Berman, formerly of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Trading and Markets Division, has joined the Financial Services Organization (FSO) of Ernst & Young LLP as a Principal focusing on market risk and data analytics.

SEC expands use of Palantir big data software to catch insider traders - Reuters

The Securities and Exchange Commission has struck a five year, $90 million contract with big data outfit Palantir Technologies to help it sniff out insider trading, according to Reuters.

SEC reaches $30m settlement over press release hacking case

A Ukrainian investment banking firm and its CEO have agreed to pay $30 million to settle SEC charges that they profited from trading on information hacked from newswire services.

SEC fines Citigroup for compliance and surveillance failures

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to settle charges that it failed to enforce policies and procedures to prevent and detect securities transactions that could involve the misuse of material, nonpublic information.

ITG pays $20.3m to settle SEC dark pool charges

Execution broker ITG and its affiliate AlterNet Securities have agreed to pay $20.3 million to settle SEC charges that they operated a secret dealing desk and misused the confidential trading information of dark pool subscribers.

US charges nine over insider trading hacking scheme

US authorities have charged nine people with hacking into business newswires to steal yet-to-be published press releases containing financial information that was used to make trades netting around $30 million in illegal profits.

Big data firm Palantir raises $450m

Palantir Technologies, a big data startup co-founded by Peter Thiel, has completed a massive $450 million funding round that values the company at $20 billion.

Nasdaq and Nyse propose mutual back-up plan

Two rival exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange (Nyse) and Nasdaq OMX, are planning to provide back-up to each other's closing auctions in order to prevent a repeat of the outage that hit Nyse earlier this month.

Kx Systems wins SEC contract

Kx Systems, a leader in high-performance database and time-series analytics, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for use of its kdb+ software in supporting its ongoing IT objectives.

SEC commissioner calls for Reg SCI scope to be widened

An SEC commissioner has called on the regulator to massively expand the scope of recently introduced rules designed to strengthen the US market's technology infrastructure and protect it from cyber attacks.