Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

366 results about this entity

Period: 18 Oct 2004 - 01 Nov 2024

US financial sector passes resiliency test

Federal regulatory agencies in the US say that clearing and settlement organisations and other firms that play significant roles in critical financial markets are now considerably more resilient to wide-scale disruptions than before September 11.

Online investors are prime cyber-crime targets SEC warns

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is urging online investors to take extra precautions to protect their online accounts from keylogging identity thieves following "numerous" cases of unauthorised access over the past few months.

SEC charges Estonian PR hackers

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed fraud charges against an Estonian financial services firm and two of its employees who allegedly used a 'spider' program to steal advance PR filings from the Business Wire Web site and made at least $7.8 million by illegally trading on the stolen data.

SEC issues interactive data RFI

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a request for information (RFI) to help identify ways to receive, store, view and analyse interactive financial data.

US government slams financial sector IT recovery failings

The US Government Accountability Office has ripped into the Securities and Exchange Commission and top trading firms for failing to adequately protect their operations from risk of disruption by terrorist attacks or other disasters.

SEC probes Thomson Financial division

The Securities and Exchange Commission has instigated an inquiry into the operations of Thomson Financial's Capital Markets Intelligence Service.