Morgan Stanley is close to an agreement to pay $200 million to $300 million to resolve a yearslong US investigation into its employees’ handling of stock sales big enough to move markets, a probe that rattled major clients and reverberated …
NEW YORK –– The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying they defrauded investors by hiding cybersecurity weaknesses during a massive hack targeting the U.S. government. The SEC …
Janice Shell likes to sniff out fraud. An art historian by training, she once spent her days digging through Renaissance archives in Italy. Now 74, retired and living in suburban Philadelphia, she pores over financial filings instead. She hunts for …
SAN DIEGO — New rules proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on cybersecurity and climate impact disclosures may generate more lawsuits that will generate claims against directors & officers policies, panelists said Wednesday during the Professional Liability Underwriting …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recommended an enforcement action against SolarWinds Corp. over its public statements on cybersecurity and procedures governing such disclosures, the software firm said on Thursday. The Austin, Texas-based company also said in a filing …
CVS Health Corp., Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc. have agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state, local and tribal government lawsuits accusing the pharmacy chains of mishandling opioid painkillers. CVS said Wednesday it …
Germany’s Allianz agreed to pay more than $6 billion and its US asset management unit will plead guilty to criminal securities fraud over the collapse of its Structured Alpha funds early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Allianz’s settlements with the U.S. …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday sued Brazilian miner Vale SA for allegedly making false and misleading disclosures about the safety of its dams ahead of a 2019 disaster that killed 270 people. Beginning in 2016, Vale manipulated …
DETROIT (AP) — A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. Lawyers for stockholders of the …
WASHINGTON —Wall Street’s watchdog on Wednesday unveiled a draft new rule to enhance blank-check company investor disclosures and to strip them of a legal protection critics argue has allowed the shell companies to issue overly optimistic earnings projections. The move …