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SEC Backs Big Budget for Crypto Crackdown

SEC Backs Big Budget for Crypto Crackdown

SEC Backs Big Budget for Crypto Crackdown

The Biden administration has proposed a record-smashing $2.4 billion budget for the SEC in fiscal year 2024, and it’s apparently already burning a hole in Gary Gensler’s pocket. To hear him tell it, the SEC chair is more than ready to use t...

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Risk Factors: Large boulder rests precariously atop the edge of a cliff

New Intelligize Report Offers Insights into SEC Views on Company Risk Factors

Risk Factors: Large boulder rests precariously atop the edge of a cliff

Fortunately for investors, you don’t need inside access to C-suites to know what kinds of risks keep corporate executives on edge. Publicly traded companies frequently disclose in their Securities and Exchange Commission filings their views...

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SEC Scrutinizing Non-GAAP Disclosures in Financial Statements

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Everybody has at least one of those friends who seem to insist on making everything more complicated than it needs to be. They ask for multiple substitutions when ordering at a restaurant. They try to convince everyone to watch the obscure...

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Banker with Briefcase running away from SEC Enforcement

SEC Taking an Interest in Accounting Enforcement

Banker with Briefcase running away from SEC Enforcement

The implosions of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank this month may have come as a surprise to KPMG LLP, one of the so-called Big Four accounting firms. Both banks collapsed within two weeks of KPMG signing off on their audits. In the w...

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Execs’ 10b5-1 Plans Reportedly at Heart of Silicon Valley Bank Investigation

Shadow on a wall of a person with a flashlight who is investigating

What did Silicon Valley Bank executives know, and when did they know it? Ever since the financial institution of choice for venture capital-backed startups went bust on March 10, talk in the media and around Washington has focused on the po...

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