Securities and Exchange Commission News

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged the former chief accounting officer of Beazer Homes USA Inc.

Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Micro Focus International raised its offer for Borland Software to $US1.50 per share on Tuesday, up from $US1 in early May, to counter a rival offer from a mystery bidder.

Businessman and alleged Ponzi schemer David Hernandez appeared in a Downstate court Monday morning following his recent arrest on fraud charges.

After hailing Bernard Madoff's 150-year prison sentence, some of his former investment clients intensified criticism of what they termed an equally tough adversary -- the government systems charged with stopping financial scam artists and reimbursing its victims.

R. Allen Stanford's liquidators from Antigua were awarded control of 120 million pounds in UK assets seized in a fraud probe in a London court battle with US receivers.

The Pacific Corporate Group, a company that helps big government pension funds decide how to invest their money, has agreed to pay $2 million to extract itself from a corruption investigation in New York.

The Canadian ministry behind "100 Huntley Street" said Thursday that church money was not misappropriated by two of the TV show's hosts who have been suspended over alleged links to a US$14.1-million Ponzi scheme.

A federal judge has granted the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to continue freezing the assets of a California financier charged in a fraud case involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

REGINA a ' A Regina businessman and former Regina businessman have been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with securities fraud for "dissemination of materially false and misleading press releases.'' Troy K. Metz of Regina and Dallas L. Robinson, formerly of Regina, were named in a civil fraud action filed by the SEC in U.S.

WITH a 150-year prison sentence, Bernard Madoff got what he had coming to him - and certainly more than enough to guarantee that the 71-year-old master swindler will die in prison, not in the Hamptons.

DHAKA: Grameenphone, the countrya s largest mobile phone operator, on Thursday received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission for floating its initial public offerings.

Electronics retailer Circuit City, which closed all its U.S. stores, has sold its Canadian stores to telecommunications company Bell Canada.

Share trading of 28 laggard companies has been suspended from today for an indefinite period by the stock market regulator.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a commercial-stage biotechnology company with a focus in oncology, today announced that it has received commitments from institutional investors to purchase $21 million of securities in a registered direct offering.

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer warned about irregularities at Bernard Madoff's financial management firm as far back as 2004, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.

How convenient for the judge and the media to paint Bernard Madoff as Mr. Evil, a uniquely venal blight on an otherwise responsible financial industry in which money is handled honestly and with transparency.

Former Stanford CFO to plead guilty Texas billionaire Allen Stanford arrives at the Federal courthouse in Houston, in the custody of US marshalls, June 25, 2009.

Federal prosecutors in North Carolina have filed criminal fraud conspiracy charges against Beazer Homes USA.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today unanimously approved rules requiring greater transparency for executive compensation at bailed-out firms and all public companies.