The SEC is taking the term "no action" more literally than it ever has before. The agency took its first step away from the no-action process last November, when the Division of Corporation Finance said it would stop weighing in on most company ...
The SEC has created dedicated accounting-fraud teams before. It did so in 2013 with a Financial Reporting and Audit Task Force, and again this past spring with a "SOX group" that arrived with little more fanfare than a pair of job listings. On August ...
For nearly four decades, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) held a piece of paper most public companies would envy: a 1987 business review letter from the U.S. Department of Justice saying the government had no plans to challenge its business . ...
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That can-do sentiment could serve as the tagline for the administration's newest tariff regime, which took effect on July 24. Acting under the Trade Act of 1974, the U.S. Trade Representative imposed ...