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Category: SEC

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The Biggest Stories of Gary Gensler’s Year One at the SEC

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Gary Gensler celebrated his first full year on the job as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the SEC had a business-friendly reputation under predecessor Jay Clayton, Gensler was billed as a reformer. In addition to deali...

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Charges Against Brazilian Mining Company Tests SEC’s ESG Authority

Molten hot iron poured into kiln for sustainability

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s foray into required corporate reporting on environmental, social and governance issues has been the top story in financial regulation since the start of the Biden administration. To this point, howev...

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Twitter Presents Musk with Poison Pill

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Following Elon Musk is exhausting. Absolutely exhausting. Driven by an apparently insatiable need for public attention, the latest in an interminable series of headline-grabbing stunts from the CEO (sorry, “Technoking”) of Tesla involves a...

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Auditing Showdown with China Nearing a Conclusion?

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Remember the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act? Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler warned the world last year that the law, which took effect at the end of 2020, could start causing problems in the United States f...

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Twitter Investment Could Get Elon Musk in More Trouble with SEC

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It’s always something with Elon Musk, isn’t it? Once heralded as a visionary innovator, the CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX now appears more interested in burnishing a reputation as a social provocateur. As his personal fortune has grown, the...

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