SEC vs. BROKERS: Keeping Score

In 2008, when the global credit crisis exploded, the Securities and Exchange Commission conducted 772 examinations of the operations of brokers and dealers of financial instruments in the United States.

In 2010, that number fell to 490 examinations.

The cause? The increasing complexity of the exams that take place. Here are the numbers that result, when the SEC takes on brokers.

View the statistics here.

 

 

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