The Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened a preliminary investigation into JPMorgan’s accounting practices and public disclosures about the trades.

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DealBook: S.E.C. Opens Investigation Into JPMorgan’s $2 Billion Loss

The inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission is focused on at least three studios and creates a potential roadblock for the industry’s plans to expand in one of the world’s largest markets.

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S.E.C. Asks if Hollywood Paid Bribes in China

After spending millions of dollars for a management consultant to analyze its operations , the Securities and Exchange Commission said a shortage of money will limit its ability to act on the recommendations. Read full article > >

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SEC: Funds limit restructuring options

This story has been updated. The House overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday designed to make it easier for growing companies to attract investors and comply with securities laws. The bipartisan measure, strongly backed by both parties and the White House, passed 380 to 41. Read full article > >

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House passes JOBS Act, sends bill to Obama

An appeals court is likely to overturn a rejection of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud settlement with Citigroup over the sale of mortgage-related investments.

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DealBook: S.E.C. Appears Poised to Win Appeal in Citigroup Settlement

A bill the House passed last week to make it easier for companies to raise money could also make it easier for companies to cheat investors, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission says. Read full article > >

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JOBS Act could remove investor protections, SEC chief says

For sale of mortgage-backed securities.

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Goldman Hit With SEC Notice

Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street, the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments.

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S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks

In an effort to regain public trust, the Senate voted Monday to take up a bill that would prohibit members of Congress from trading stocks and other securities on the basis of confidential information they receive as lawmakers.

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Democratic Senators to Push ‘Buffett Rule’

The federal government resorted to a favorite accounting maneuver Tuesday to stay under its debt limit, suspending the issuance of securities in a retirement savings program for federal and postal employees. Read full article > >

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Treasury’s Thrift Savings Plan maneuver aims to keep government under debt cap

Companies and other defendants found guilty in criminal proceedings will no longer be able to settle parallel SEC actions with a provision that says the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing, the SEC said Friday. The change leaves intact the Securities and Exchange Commmission’s general policy of letting defendants in its civil or administrative enforcement actions settle without admitting or denying wrongdoing . Read full article > >

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SEC changes settlement rules for companies found guilty of crimes

A federal judge who has accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of negotiating weak settlements in Wall Street cases on Thursday accused the agency of misleading a federal appeals court. U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff said the SEC also withheld from him important information that he needed to do his job. Read full article > >

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Federal judge accuses SEC of misleading court

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday that it will challenge a federal judge’s rejection of the agency’s $285 million fraud settlement with Citigroup. The agency is asking an appeals court to overturn the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff in Manhattan. In rejecting the deal, Rakoff argued that the penalty amounted to mere pocket change for Citigroup and that he had no basis to assess whether it was appropriate because the firm neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. Read full article > >

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SEC to appeal federal judge’s rejection of Citigroup deal

A North Bethesda man ran a Ponzi scheme that cheated investors in the Washington area, including charities, out of millions of dollars, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday. Garfield M. Taylor told investors that they could earn annual returns of about 20 percent with little or no risk, and he showed one prospective client, a Baptist church, a fake letter of recommendation from the Charles Schwab brokerage firm, the SEC alleged. Read full article > >

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Millions lost in local Ponzi scheme

Citigroup was in a bind. Two years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission was considering charging the firm’s former chief financial officer with misleading investors by understating Citigroup’s exposure to subprime mortgages. To help defuse the situation, Citigroup added to its legal team a criminal defense lawyer named Mark Pomerantz, who had some special qualifications. As Pomerantz later told the SEC’s inspector general, he had supervised SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami when the two worked for the Justice Department, and he had helped get Khuzami a promotion. Read full article > >

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Under SEC probe, Citigroup hired ex-boss of top agency official