One source of the data inaccuracies is that FINRA and the SEC have two completely different registration systems each revealing different types of information about the brokers on their respective systems.

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Major conferences like the Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC rake in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, well ahead of even smaller FBS conferences like the MAC and Mountain West.

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Data regarding millions of nationwide brokerage firm customer complaints is not disclosed to the public, despite the fact that state securities regulators, the SEC and National Association of Securities Dealers, each keep such records.

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The SEC and CFTC have each proposed rules for a new type of trading venue known as a swap-execution facility that is designed to increase market transparency.

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Wall Street has evolved greatly in recent years with financial firms increasingly getting into each other's lines of business, and the president-elect has talked about consolidating the SEC and the CFTC, two of the most important regulatory bodies.

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An SEC enforcement release says that each firm "lacked adequate systems or procedures for the preservation of electronic mail communications" from 1999 to at least 2001.

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