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Trade Talk: SEC Facing Thorny Issues with Flash Trading, Dark Pools, Naked Access

Regulators have long been concerned with ensuring that investors stand on an equal footing with respect to their access to information about publicly ...

Monday, December 14, 2009

by Christopher Keller
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New Reform - United on Regulation, Divided on Details

For all its chaos, the international financial meltdown has had one good effect. The will to enact much needed regulatory and corporate governance ...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

by Thomas A. Dubbs
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Loss Causation and the Global Economic Crisis

When fraud coincides with a stock market crash, one question inevitably looms large. What caused the investors' losses: the fraud or outside economic ...

Monday, July 27, 2009

by Ira Schochet
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Death of the Worldwide Class?

The growth of majority-foreign classes and the arrival of overseas investors as lead plaintiffs rank among the major developments in U.S. securities ...

Monday, June 22, 2009

by Lawrence Sucharow
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Iqbal and the Twombly Pleading Standard

While the court's two-pronged approach might bring more consistency on how a pleading is analyzed, it remains to be seen with respect to innumerable ...

Monday, June 15, 2009

by Gregory Asciolla
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Schapiro Takes Right Path on Market Reform

But auditors, lawyers and shareholders need better tools. Lawrence A. Sucharow says private-sector auditors, lawyers and shareholders can play larger ...

Monday, June 1, 2009

by Lawrence Sucharow