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  • SAC's Cohen Caught in the Crosshairs
    SAC's Cohen Caught in the Crosshairs   

    CNBC's Kate Kelly has the latest details on hedge fund billionaire, Steve Cohen.

  • JPMorgan, Credit Suisse Pay $400 Million in Mortgage Case
    JPMorgan, Credit Suisse Pay $400 Million in Mortgage Case

    The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged JPMorgan and Credit Suisse with misleading investors over mortgage-backed securities, and the firms agreed to pay more than $400 million in combined settlements, according to a press release.

  • Advice to SEC Staff: Encrypt PCs When Among Hackers

    Sensitive, confidential information belonging to major U.S. stock exchanges was at risk of being hacked this year, thanks to an oversight by Securities and Exchange Commission staffers, according to a new Reuters report.

  • Ready for the Land Mines Embedded in Dodd-Frank?
    Ready for the Land Mines Embedded in Dodd-Frank?

    Wall Street is preparing to take a financial hit when  Dodd-Frank takes effect -- and  that may mean that rules intended to bolster the U.S. financial system could instead undermine it.

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    To Regulate Rapid Traders, S.E.C. Turns to One of Them

    In an acknowledgment that regulators have fallen behind the traders they oversee, the agency is turning to one high-frequency trading firm for help. The New York Times reports.

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    Ex-Stanford Exec Gets 3 Years for Ponzi Scheme

    A judge has sentenced a former top executive in the empire of disgraced Texas financier R. Allen Stanford to three years in prison for her role in helping the once jet-setting businessman bilk investors out of more than $7 billion.

  • Interest Rate
    30-Year Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Near Record Low

    The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage held steady this week, staying slightly above the lowest level on record.

  • A former Security and Exchange Commission employee Spencer Barasch, a witness for prosecutors in the Arthur Andersen, trial leaves the federal courts building in Houston, Texas, after testifying 08 May 2002.
    Documents Show Former SEC Official Aided Former Targets

    A former regional enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission who was sanctioned in May over alleged conflicts of interest in the multi-billion dollar Allen Stanford Ponzi case has a history of such allegations, according to documents obtained by CNBC.

  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) traders
    Time for a Futures Insurance Fund: CFTC's Chilton

    Commodities Futures and Exchange Commission (CFTC) commissioner Bart Chilton is calling for an insurance fund to protect futures customers.

  • Internet Security
    As Glitches Mount, Cyber Safety Net for Businesses Shrinks

    It is shaping up to be the year of the glitch. Days after the massive software failure which nearly put Knight Capital Group out of business,  exchanges in Tokyo and Spain were forced to suspend some trading due to glitches, while a software bug caused Southwest Airlines to charge online customers several times over for the same flight. .

  • Department of Justice
    Corporate Fraud Cases Often Spare Individuals

    Settlements for defrauding the government are on track to reach $8 billion this year, but relatively few executives are being charged at the companies getting the penalties, the New York Times reports.

  • Facebook
    Facebook: About 83 Million Accounts Are Fake

    About 83 million Facebook accounts are fake, the social network admitted in a recent Facebook SEC filing.

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    Did Accused Bristol-Myers Exec Give Himself Away?

    The first rule of insider trading: Don’t talk about insider trading—or do a lot of Internet searches about it.

  • VirnetX
    Part 2: Hidden Risk at VirnetX?

    Earlier this week I wrote about the hidden risk in Nevada-based VirnetX, a profitless battleground stock trading at a nearly $2 billion stock market valuation on hope about its mobile phone patents. Here's more.

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    Release of Jobs Numbers Revamped to Prevent Leaks: Report

    Both the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission have approached the Department of Labor with concerns that the agency’s monthly jobs report data could leak out to markets in the minutes and seconds before their official release, a government report revealed.

  • Gary Gensler
    CFTC Defines 'Swap', Regulations Move Forward

    This vote in turn, triggers the adoption of nineteen new rules governing the over the counter derivatives markets, most by year end. And while the rules aim to make this opaque market more transparent, they will also eventually eat into the very healthy profit margins big banks make writing and trading these derivatives.

  • Reed Hastings | CEO Netflix
    Did Netflix Violate Fair Disclosure Rule?

    Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, intentionally or not, appears to be pushing for a new definition of what constitutes fair disclosure.

  • Allen Stanford
    Judge to Stanford Victims—Sympathy, But No Compensation

    A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday denied a bid to force the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) to compensate victims of Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

  • Peter Madoff
    Madoff's Brother Pleads Guilty 

    Three years to the day his older brother was sentenced to 150 years in prison, Peter Madoff  pleaded guilty to two charges linked to Bernie Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

  • Peter Madoff
    Peter Madoff Now to Pay for Role in Ponzi Scheme

    Peter Madoff, the younger brother of Ponzi swindler Bernie Madoff, was arrested this morning and will appear in court later in the day as part of a process that will see him serve 10 years in prison for his role in the swindle.