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Today’s one of those weird holidays where the markets are open, but the SEC is closed, which means no new filings today. But on Friday, before they left for the holiday weekend, the SEC released a bevy of comment letters, many of which focus on compensation disclosures in the 2009 crop of proxies. One of [...]
We were taken by surprise yesterday afternoon when we got a short email from the SEC that it had decided to appeal the insider trading case against billionaire investor Mark Cuban. The email was pretty concise: a short statement from SEC spokesman John Nester that said “As we alleged in our complaint, Mark Cuban violated [...]
My good friend and blogger extraordinaire Barry Ritholtz wrote such a compelling post yesterday about the SEC that I thought it was worth sharing with footnoted.org readers. Here it is in its entirety as only Barry can say it: The problems at the SEC were decades in the making. The agency is supposed to be [...]
Late yesterday, the SEC put out a brief statement to let everyone know that despite what you may have read recently from Judge Jed Rakoff’s unhappiness with the SEC’s offer to wipe away the Merrill bonus disclosure problem with a $33 million fine, it planned to “vigorously pursue” its case against Bank of America (BAC). [...]
Though it’s been awhile since we last footnoted CIT Group (CIT), given the news over the past few days, it seemed like a good idea to take a closer look at their filings. One of the things that immediately jumped out was the relatively long string of comment letters between the company and the SEC, [...]
