The total number of enforcement actions from the Securities and Exchange Commission declined to a five-year low in fiscal year 2021, although the number of standalone enforcement actions increased ...

The number of police and law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty jumped 55% from 2021 to 2020 – with the majority succumbing to COVID-19-related illness, statistics released Tuesday show ...

Last year marked the deadliest for line-of-duty police and law enforcement officers since 1930, with 458 officers dying in 2021. The startling preliminary statistic, released Tuesday by the National ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement (Division) published its Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2021 on Nov. 18, 2021. The Annual Report – the first issued under new ...

Fines doled out by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority jumped 60% to $91 million from $57 million in 2020, although the bulk of the increase came from a single case, according to a report by ...

PCAOB enforcement record The PCAOB publicly disclosed 18 audit-related enforcement actions last year — a 38% increase from 13 in 2020 — but still well below pre-pandemic levels. Of the 15 individual ...

In 2020 and 2021, law enforcement officers faced an unprecedented level of scrutiny and criticism, especially in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an African American man who died in May 2020 ...

After a year and a quarter, the SEC's new priorities under the Biden administration are coming into focus through enforcement patterns. The SEC filed 697 total enforcement actions in fiscal year 2021.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC or Commission) actions in 2021 demonstrate that insider trading remains a key enforcement priority. While the absolute number of insider trading ...

Law enforcement seizures of pills containing illicit fentanyl increased dramatically between January 2018 and December 2021, according to a new U.S. study. The number of individual pills seized by law ...

The agency’s annual enforcement report indicates that advisors are very much in the regulator's crosshairs, as officials uncover new types of fraud and classic compliance failures around fees and ...