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Robert Khuzami made a splash, as intended, today when he announced the biggest Wall Street penalty in the SEC’s history, a $550 million deal with Goldman Sachs (GS). We’re just not sure the long-term view will be as kind. The blogosphere has been quick to blast the deal as too little, too soon. Goldman shares [...]
The long-anticipated Wall Street reform bill just passed the U.S. Senate and is heading for President Obama’s desk. It still has a number of the investor-protection and corporate-governance provisions we mentioned before, but we were recently reminded that even some of the headline issues — bank capital standards, systemic-risk oversight, derivatives regulation — have a [...]
As the SEC deadline looms for large accelerated filers to file their 10-Ks by Monday, we’re reviewing literally hundreds of filings a day. Besides disclosing the state of their own debts, revenues, legal affairs (and so much more!), many companies are also discussing the state of the economy and what they think the future holds. [...]
In some ways, it seems a bit sad to do the very first footnoted post of 2010 on AIG (AIG), which so dominated the news in 2009. But since the company filed one of the last 8Ks on Thursday afternoon, we just couldn’t ignore it for the sake of starting the year off with a [...]
Given the paucity of filings on Friday, we couldn’t help but pay attention to the 10-K that TFS Financial Corp. (TFSL) filed. The company actually tried to sneak it in late Wednesday — around 6:30 pm. But the SEC was closed for Thanksgiving by then so it wound up getting accepted on Friday morning. Granted, [...]
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