Financial regulations

The commission has nearly doubled the size of the Division of Enforcement's Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit.

The West Virginia senator is calling on the commission to reconsider a plan to require companies to disclose information about their greenhouse gas pollution.

A growing number of trading platforms are safeguarding digital assets for their users and maintaining the cryptographic keys necessary to access the tokens.

Blank-check companies would be required to disclose more information about their sponsors and potential conflicts of interest under a new plan from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the latest effort by regulators to rein in the once red-hot market.

The commission issued a 500-plus-page proposed rule Monday that would mandate corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions.

The commission unveiled an eagerly awaited proposed rule on climate risk disclosures that public companies would need to start including in their registration statements and periodic reports.

Companies will need to reveal detailed information about their greenhouse gas pollution under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plan, marking a major shift in how corporations must show they are dealing with climate change.

When companies suddenly replace their auditing firms, the required SEC disclosures are often vague and may be a signal of a forthcoming restatement, but timing is a crucial factor.

Corporate directors and executives aren’t supposed to use privileged information about their companies to enrich themselves at the investing public’s expense.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is ramping up enforcement against cryptocurrency providers, as the Internal Revenue Service has also stepped up investigations and compliance efforts.

The SEC has tweaked certain accounting rules and is considering doing more.

Find out why the recent guidance from the SEC on how SPAC warrants are classified requires careful consideration of the specific facts and circumstances for each entity and each contract.

The new commissioner is poised to confront everything from the fallout of the GameStop trading frenzy to the deluge of SPACs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission tapped deputy chief accountant Paul Munter to become acting chief accountant when chief accountant Sagar Teotia leaves in February.

President Biden has picked Allison Herren Lee, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the acting chair of the SEC, as nominee Gary Gensler waits in the wings as a more permanent chair once he is confirmed by the Senate.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to amend the disclosure requirements in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis portion of financial reports.

PCAOB aligns auditor independence rules with SEC

At issue is China's refusal to let inspectors from the PCAOB review audits of some Chinese businesses.

Jay Clayton, who has led the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for most of President Donald Trump’s term in office, said in a statement Monday that he will step down at the end of the year.

The commission has been busy helping public companies report the impact of COVID-19.