Biden has nominated Gary Gensler to serve as SEC chairman, but that nomination must be approved by the Senate. Lee has served as an SEC commissioner since 2019.
Such pardons don’t sit well with securities attorneys, who say they contradict the mission of regulators and send the wrong message to perpetrators.
While conventional wisdom suggests a Democratic administration will move to strengthen regulations, there's potential for focus on how fintech can be used to help accomplish the new administration’s goal of expanding access to financial services.
Hours before President Joseph Biden was inaugurated at the U.S. Capitol, the Biden transition team released a list of more than 100 Trump regulations approved since 2017 that it intends to revisit.
A Department of Labor advisory council compiled a wealth of testimony on the challenges that plan sponsors, advisers, record keepers and others face in identifying retirement savers’ cognitive decline and what options they have when they suspect it.
The agency says that Michael Sztrom's son David faked being an adviser with his father’s help.
Jacob C. Glick of Scottsdale allegedly took $355,000 from a client after he was terminated by his firm.
A former chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, former Treasury Department official and former Goldman Sachs executive, Gensler has developed a reputation as a tough regulator who also was a successful leader on Wall Street.
VALIC and Associated Bank were sued recently over their retirement plans, while a long-running case over losses in Valeant Pharmaceuticals stock in DST Systems' plan was settled for a total of $79 million in three separate agreements.
Federal Trade Commission member Rohit Chopra will be nominated to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; both choices signal the incoming administration is planning tough oversight.
The Labor Department's fiduciary rule and the SEC's Reg BI pose a real threat to the retirement savings of investors, but the Biden administration can put an end to the threat.
As scrutiny of the online brokerage mounts and as it prepares for an IPO expected later this year, it has recruited two officials from its front-line regulator.
“We need comprehensive capital gains reform,” incoming Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said. “This is a kitchen-table issue.”
In a curious development to a strange, twisting tale, Butowsky, managing director of Chapwood Capital Investment Management, offered an apology to the brother of former DNC staffer Seth Rich on Twitter — then deleted the tweet.
The brokerage said a "hyper-partisan environment" led to its decision to stop contributing to political campaigns. However, the company will continue to lobby lawmakers in Washington.
Washington trade associations that represent financial firms and advisers are wrestling with whether and how to change their political action committee policies on donations in the wake of the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The Justice department sued to block the acquisition in November, accusing Visa of trying to buy the financial technology firm to eliminate an emerging threat to its online debit business.
If Gensler is nominated by Biden to be SEC chairman and confirmed by the Senate, he would be the new administration's front-line regulator for Wall Street and the arbiter of what public companies must disclose to their investors.
The twin wins give Democrats operational control of the Senate, which is split 50-50s. While Democrats claim the majority because of the tie-breaking vote of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, they hardly have free rein to advance legislation.
Under the measure, which the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. first released in May 2019, the broker-dealer self-regulator would use numeric thresholds for regulatory disclosures to identify firms that pose a heightened risk to investors.
