Mary Jo White

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The decision by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to seek admissions of wrongdoing in select enforcement cases is expected to put pressure on other federal financial regulators to get tougher...

U.S. securities regulators will push for admissions of wrongdoing in cases of “widespread harm to investors” or “egregious intentional misconduct,” Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White said Tuesday. The change...

June 19 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * U.S. President Barack Obama will make the case for a new phase in nuclear weapons...

By Jed Horowitz NEW YORK, date (Reuters) - She didn't get the job, but if Sallie Krawcheck were running the Securities and Exchange Commission she knows where her priorities would lie. The former head of Bank of America Corp's global wealth and...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators will convene next week to consider a long-awaited proposal that would impose new rules on the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry, according to an announcement posted on the...

Two senior U.S. Senate aides were nominated by President Obama to join the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kara M. Stein would replace Elisse B. Walter as a Democratic commissioner and Michael S. Piwowar would succeed Troy A. Paredes as a...

Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, having chastised bank regulators for failing to put Wall Street giants on trial, is demanding to see any analyses that the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission have conducted...

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...

KPMG has resigned as Herbalife's auditor after the auditing firm fired a senior partner in its Los Angeles office because of an alleged insider-trading scheme. "KPMG stated it had concluded it was not independent because of alleged insider trading in...

KPMG, one of the country's biggest auditing firms, has fired a senior partner in its Los Angeles office for allegedly engaging in an insider-trading scheme. The partner passed confidential client information to someone who then traded stocks in...

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...