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Apple denies CNN iReport of Steve Jobs heart attack

Interesting citizen journalism report on CNN's iReport send's Apple shares tumbling. The SEC is investigating.

SEC-PCAOB arm wrestle

How bad is the relationship between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? What are the tensions? Can they actually work together to protect the markets? Now we have insiders saying they hate each other.

SEC litigation and share price

SEC lawsuits have a negative impact on the share price. But are some violations worse than others? Is there a difference between litigation being settled with fines and without? What happens if it's just left pending? A study answers these questions.

Subprime mess: where was the SEC?

Why was the SEC asleep at the wheel in the lead-up to the subprime crisis? Bad risk management and it did not want to clamp down on this market.

SEC buys time for small companies

Another sign that the Securities and Exchange Commission is pulling back from Sarbanes-Oxley. On Friday, the SEC announced that it's giving yet another delay to the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley to smaller public companies

Siemens fine to wipe profits

Siemens faces a fine of 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion), a figure that would wipe out a full year's profit, after a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Siemens and the SEC

Senior executives of German electronics and engineering group Siemens AG today met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the bribery scandal at Siemens.

Shareholder rights wronged

This week's extraordinary decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to let companies deny shareholders access to annual proxy ballots is another victory for the bosses and companies like General Motors and Bank of America to block democracy.

GAO slates SEC, again

The Government Accountability Office has slated the SEC for having shoddy internal controls and material weaknesses, yet again

Pay disclosures not good enough

Corporations are not really doing that well when it comes to explaining to investors how executives are compensated and what exactly they have to do to earn their bucks, says the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ratings agencies get let off

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced it s clamping down on the ratings agencies in the wake of the subprime debacle. But a closer look at what the SEC will tell you that the new measures will do nothing to protect investors.

A greener SEC?

A coalition of interests, including investors are petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to come clean on pollution risks.

GAO slates SEC for being too slow

The Government Accountability office has slated the Securities and Exchange Commission for being too slow and still having a backlog of cases.

SEC charges accounting firms

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 69 accounting firms and individuals with violating Sarbanes-Oxley by failing by auditing public companies without registering with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Five years on, and you have to question how effective Sarbanes-Oxley is.

More heat on Siemens

The Siemens group might have new leadership but the bribery scandal is not going away with reports that that US Securities and Exchange Commission is now putting pressure on the German government to help its investigations into whether Siemens employees paid millions of euros in bribes to secure deals.