The SEC will soon let startups raise money from investors via online portals. But is crowdfunding a good way to buy stocks?
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Crowdfunding Meets Investment Banking
Tag Archives: The Securities And Exchange Commission
A Fire Drill For Bond Funds
The SEC is concerned about bond funds in the event of a financial conflagration. The solution isn’t to run the sprinklers 24/7.
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Being Grateful Is Good For Us
New rules for money market funds are less damaging than they might have been. In the interest of good health, let’s be grateful.
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A Display Of Judicial Arrogance Is Rebuffed
Some countries have prosecuting judges. By rejecting a jurist’s overreach, a federal appeals court reminded us that we don’t.
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The SEC Catches Up To Social Media
There is no escaping “Thefacebook.” SEC staff offers investment advisers sensible, if belated, guidance on using it.
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The SEC Doesn’t Score Much In Blame Game
It wasn’t a shutout, but the SEC did not score much in its effort to collect big penalties for a money market fund’s collapse.
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Five Years On, A Lehman Hero Emerges
Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of Lehman’s collapse, and also the end of one phase of the Great Wall Street Witch Hunt.
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A Pointless Dodd-Frank Rule Defies Enforcement
Three years after Dodd-Frank passed, regulators cannot define a seemingly simple executive compensation statistic. Blame Congress.
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The SEC’s Fairness Problem
The SEC may or may not need fairer judges in its in-house courts, but it clearly needs fairer rules for using them.
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