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Pedal to the metal on principles-based disclosure
Image by RockMotorArt from Pixabay On August 26, 2020, the SEC continued to keep its foot on the gas with respect to its recent practice of modernizing disclosure rules by adopting amendments to the...
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Out with the old, in with the new: Banks and S&Ls must now provide updated...
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay How did we get here? On September 11, 2020, the SEC adopted new rules to “update and expand the statistical disclosures” that bank holding companies, banks, savings...
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Perquisites Disclosure: “How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You?”
Image by truthseeker08 from Pixabay Remember when you were a kid and you didn’t clean up your room or do something else you were supposed to do, and a parent would say “How many times do I have to tell...
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Living in a material world
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay My apologies to those of you who thought I would expound on the corporate governance implications of Madonna’s early oeuvre; but I want to write about...
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Caveat Everybody — The SEC Takes Aim at SPACs
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay In the last several days, the SEC has engaged in a skirmish, and possibly an opening battle, against SPACs. A recap follows. The first shot was fired on March 31,...
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Another perquisites enforcement action…with a twist or three
I suppose I should be getting tired of writing about enforcement actions involving nondisclosure of perquisites (for example, see here), and that you’re getting tired of reading about them. However,...
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Note to SEC: The internet and social media are here – deal with it!
Remember those three monkeys – see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil? Well, that’s kind of how the SEC views the internet and social media. Time after time after time, the SEC has cautioned that...
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Who needs Shakespeare when you’ve got the SEC?
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay Hating lawyers may not have started with Shakespeare, but he didn’t help things when he wrote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” in Henry VI. Any...
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Rooting for the other guys?
I have long thought that the SEC is among the best, if not the best, government agency. Over the years, I’ve worked with and gotten to know many folks on the SEC’s staff, who have consistently...
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Bringing the Dead Back to Life
Image by Kevin Phillips from Pixabay Spoiler alert – despite the title and the creepy photo, this is not about zombies, vampires, or anything else of a spooky nature. Rather, it’s how we can hopefully...
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