ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading
Commission Whistleblower Program Futures and derivatives trading played a major part in this country's financial crisis of 2008.
Not exact matches
Phillips & Cohen «played a central role in advising the Securities and Exchange
Commission on the rules creating its
whistleblower program.»
It would be optimistic to call the Ontario Securities
Commission's (OSC) new
whistleblower program a «game - changer» with respect to its role in preventing fraud,... Read more
In 2010, Congress passed Dodd - Frank and established a robust
whistleblower program designed to motivate employees to report securities law violations to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC).
The partner at Stikeman Elliott in Toronto suggests that even though the
commission says it doesn't mean for its
whistleblower program to undermine internal compliance systems, that's just what the
program could do.
The Ontario Securities
Commission has finally started the ball rolling on an initiative it first suggested back in 2011: a
whistleblower program to provide financial rewards to people who report securities law breaches.
The Ontario Securities
Commission announced Oct. 21 it was looking at a number of new enforcement initiatives including the prospect of introducing a
whistleblower program, under which incentives and / or protection from retaliation might be provided to those who have information about marketplace misconduct.
In Ontario the Ontario Securities
Commission recently invited comment on a proposed comprehensive whistleblowing
program which would award eligible
whistleblowers up to $ 1.5 million for reporting securities law misconduct that leads to significant enforcement or settlement orders.
But in a January article published by the New York School of Law on the topic, 2016 was heralded as a «banner year» for the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading
Commission's
whistleblower programs.
Last week, two potential amendments to Ontario's
Whistleblower Program were introduced by the province and the Ontario Securities
Commission.
The Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC) has a
Whistleblower program in place regarding pump and dump schemes for virtual currencies and digital tokens.