securities and exchange commission (SEC) News

Wall Street WhatsApp, Texting Fines Exceed $2.5 Billion

Wells Fargo & Co. and BNP Paribas SA are among firms that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties for employees using unofficial communications like WhatsApp, personal texts or email to conduct business — the latest in US …

SEC Set to Adopt New Cyber Rule, Unveils Brokerage AI Proposal

Wall Street’s top regulator on Wednesday was poised to adopt new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose hacking incidents, a measure officials said was being taken to help the investing public contend with the mounting cost and frequency of …

Elon Musk to Appeal Loss in SEC Case to Supreme Court

Elon Musk plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Securities and Exchange Commission overstepped its authority in enforcing a consent decree that he has called a “muzzle” on his free speech. Musk would be appealing a …

Law Firm Must Name Clients Affected by 2020 Cyberattack, Judge Says

Covington & Burling must identify some clients caught up in a 2020 hack on the law firm to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge in Washington ruled on Monday in a case that could impact future cyberattack …

Founder of Crypto Lender Celsius Network Arrested, Charged With Fraud

Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was arrested and charged with fraud, a U.S. prosecutor in New York said Thursday, while three federal regulatory agencies sued him and his company. Mashinsky, 57, was …

Gensler Asserts SEC Authority Over Crypto as Opponents Waver

Gary Gensler’s Securities and Exchange Commission is filling the crypto regulatory void, and the industry and its backers on Capitol Hill have so far been unable to check him. The tide was supposed to turn when Republicans gained control over …

SolarWinds Executives Receive Wells Notice From SEC

SolarWinds said on Friday some of its former and current executives had been issued a Wells notice by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a massive 2020 data breach tied to the software firm. A Wells notice does not …

SEC to Weigh New Artificial-Intelligence Rules for Brokerages

Wall Street’s main regulator is moving to introduce new rules for brokerages using artificial intelligence to interact with clients. The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that a long contemplated plan to rein in conflicts of interest associated with …

SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Coinbase, One Day After Suing Binance

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued Coinbase, accusing the largest U.S. cryptocurrency platform of operating illegally because it failed to register as an exchange, in another blow to the crypto industry. The lawsuit is the SEC’s second …

SEC Sues Binance and Founder Zhao Over ‘Web of Deception’

U.S. regulators sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday for allegedly operating a “web of deception,” piling further pressure on the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and sending bitcoin to its lowest in almost three months. The Securities and …