Mary Schapiro

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association named former Republican Senator Judd Gregg as its chief executive officer, the lobbying group said Monday. The appointment of the veteran politician, who also was governor...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - The new head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defended on Tuesday the agency's policy of letting firms settle civil charges without admitting or denying them, but also pledged to review the...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have circulated a long-awaited draft proposing new reforms for the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry, people familiar with the matter told...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission have circulated a long-awaited draft proposing new reforms for the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Details on the exact...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - The top U.S. securities regulator remained tight-lipped on Friday about the details of her agency's efforts to craft reforms for money market funds, probably disappointing an audience of fund industry...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is certainly looking all spiffy and new these days. Mary Jo White, the former federal prosecutor and Debevoise & Plimpton law partner, has taken over as chairman. She tapped her longtime deputy at the Southern...

Investors who lost big when Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme unraveled cannot sue federal regulators, despite the government’s “regrettable inaction,” a federal appeals court ruled. Madoff victims had sued, arguing that the...

Mary Schapiro, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, must take us for fools. No need to worry about her and the so-called revolving door between government and Wall Street, she told the Wall Street Journal on April 2, after...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday confirmed Mary Jo White to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, placing a tough former prosecutor in the role as Wall Street's top watchdog. White was confirmed by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate, an...

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Mary Jo White's nomination to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, clearing the way for the former federal prosecutor to be confirmed soon as Wall Street's top watchdog....

One of the oft-repeated justifications for why Wall Street must be regulated by Wall Streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. This argument is bunk, of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s revolving door is spinning as feverishly as ever. Lawyers who leave the SEC for private law firms often immediately begin lobbying on behalf of their new corporate clients, frequently trying to weaken...