- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Adrianne Appel2023-11-01T16:00:00
Businesses must step up their internal policing and do a better job of reporting violations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to the agency’s head of enforcement.
Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, addressed the agency’s fiscal year 2023 performance during a discussion at the SEC Securities Enforcement Forum 2023 held Oct. 25.
“We had an incredibly productive year” of enforcements, said Grewal regarding FY2023, which ended Sept. 30.
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Gurbir Grewal, director of the Enforcement Division at the Securities and Exchange Commission, spelled out plainly his view on the best path to earning cooperation credit during settlement negotiations with the agency.
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Firms monitoring employee use of off-channel communications for business purposes face numerous obstacles. How much is enough, in the opinion of regulators? How much is too much, in the eyes of employees? Determinations must be made as regulators crack down.
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