The Board of Governors voted 4-1 in favor of the changes, with the dissenter saying they would weaken core safeguards.
“There are strong indications that rating agencies are continuing to prop up risky financial products," the senator told SEC Chair Jay Clayton.
While penalties for erroneous financial reporting may spur achievement, they also may lead executives to cover up their mistakes, study suggests.
New academic analysis pulls no punches, calling the ratio "lacking in accuracy, difficult to interpret, and incomplete."
Contradicting prior research, a new report finds that increased performance-based compensation for CFOs actually steers them away from earnings management.
Doug McMillon outearned the typical Walmart employee by a ratio of 1,888 to 1 in 2017, the company discloses.
The recent Supreme Court whistleblower ruling is a devastating blow to defenses against corporate fraud, says an architect of the SEC whistleblower program.
Amy Shelly of Options Clearing Corp. faces several challenges in replacing the organization's outdated platform.
Here are some steps to begin resolving the divide between bringing regulatory relief to banks and adequately protecting consumers.
Proposed massive legislative change is unlikely; more moderate reforms floated by Treasury are better bets.
While preventing another financial crisis is paramount, there were a number of unintended consequences of the law.
Despite efforts afoot to repeal the law, it should remain in place but be modified, many observers say.
