SEC names former Treasury, Fed adviser Mark Flannery as chief economist

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced in a press release Monday that it has named Mark J. Flannery as the newest chief economist and director of the Economic and Risk Analysis division (DERA), a section that offers interdisciplinary scrutiny to help bring up to date … [Read more...]

SEC warns investors of bitcoin frauds, Ponzi schemes

A long list of central banks, federal governments, departments and state governments have warned about the usual risks associated with the peer-to-peer decentralized digital currency bitcoin. The latest to do so is the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is … [Read more...]

Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings Under Fire for Facebook Post – Stock Drops

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has certainly not been the most popular Silicon Valley CEO in recent years, after changing prices and the structure of Netflix, which turned out to be a flop. This time, Hastings is once again in the news due to a Facebook post, which was flagged by … [Read more...]

SEC Has Their Hands Full – From the JOBS Act to Working Majority

Recent news coverage of the Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) activity has focused quite a bit of attention on an issue involving outgoing Chairman Mary Shapiro's motivation for her alleged last minute involvement in delaying the passage of one of the main pieces of the Jumpstart … [Read more...]

SEC

SEC An abbreviation for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is the securities industry’s federal regulating body. Random Finance Terms for the Letter S SEC Second Pass Regression Secondary Issue Secondary Market Sector Sector Analysis Section 482 … [Read more...]