Tag Archive: investor protection fund

$20M award adds to historic SEC total

Author: admin November 18, 2016

Earlier this week, the SEC announced a more than $20 million whistleblower award “to a whistleblower who promptly came forward with valuable information that enabled the SEC to move quickly and initiate an enforcement action against wrongdoers before they could…
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Dodd-Frank Act, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Whistleblower, Whistleblower award

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SEC Office of the Whistleblower chomping at the bit to pay “big awards”

Author: admin March 25, 2016

Two distinct themes have emerged from the recent whistleblower awards issued by the SEC Office of the Whistleblower: 1) The SEC’s Whistleblower Office will, if warranted, pay big awards; and 2) The faster a potential whistleblower provides the SEC with…
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Dodd-Frank Act, SEC, Whistleblower award

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