The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed George Canellos and David Bergers to the top two positions in its enforcement division on a temporary basis, according to Thomson Reuters. Effective Thursday, Canellos
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Chief information officers at several agencies are considering buyouts and cutting information technology training budgets as they prepare for cuts to IT spending, Federal Times reports. Nicole Blake Johnson writes the Department
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Gregg Berman associate director for its new analytics and research office, which the agency launched in 2012 to use data analytics in helping make policy
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has promoted Paul Beswick, the agency’s acting chief accountant, to serve in the same capacity on a permanent basis. The agency said Beswick succeeds James Kroeker, who
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Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will stepp down from her post Dec. 14 after four years, the agency announced Monday. The agency said Schapiro is one of the
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has created a deputy chief information officer position and appointed Pamela Dyson to that position, the agency announced Thursday. Dyson, formerly the SEC’s chief technology officer, will
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A former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who handled Bernard Madoff’s legal matters for the agency should face a criminal investigation, the SEC’s top watchdog said Tuesday. Recently, it was revealed David
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s top auditor plans to ask the Justice Department to review whether an SEC lawyer broke conflict-of-interest rules during the agency’s investigation of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has forbidden its employees from destroying investigative documents, as fallout spreads from a whistleblower’s recent claim that the agency has illegally destroyed thousands of preliminary investigation documents. An
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is coming under fire on the heels of a whistleblower claiming the agency destroyed records of preliminary investigations once they are shut. The National Archives released a
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