Showing posts with label Securities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Securities. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Even the SEC Needs Legal Training

Bloomberg reports that the SEC is considering the prospect of establishing a "fraud college" to help staff detect "market abuses" like Bernard Madoff's $65 billion fraudulent ponzi scheme. Reasoning that such an educational program would be "particularly valuable," Commissioner Mary Schapiro noted that "[the] SEC is already training more than 300 examiners on ways to spot fraud after Madoff eluded the [agency] for more than 16 years."

Check it out.