Securities andExchangeCommission (SEC). The SEC maintai a publicly available, searchabledatabaseonIPOandothercorporateinformation that is requiredto be filed with the SEC.
For years it has been assumed that the shuttling of lawyers from the SEC(Securities andExchangeCommission) to private industry and back again has compromised SEC enforcement when a violation needs to be ruled upon.
Unfortunately, investors can also expect a tidal wave of accounting minutiae from the regulators, as the SecuritiesandExchangeCommission(SEC) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) get on the stick.
Three weeks ago, Jeff Morgan, the President and CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), included an anecdote in the IR Weekly newsletter that demands particular attention as the SecuritiesandExchangeCommission(SEC) and law enforcement continue an exhaustive and unprecedented investigation into insider trading.