Want proof that advisors need to be engaging with social media? Consider the SEC’s decision this week to let publicly traded companies make material corporate announcements on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Mary Schapiro, the former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has joinedPromontory Financial Group as a managing director and chairman of its governance and markets practice.

U.S. companies will now be able to post their earnings on Twitter or update their status on Facebook as long as investors have been told in advance where to look.

An expanded database of complaints that consumers have filed against large financial institutions went public Thursday, but the debate over whether the new treasure trove of information helps or hurt banks is just beginning.

Steven A. Cohen did something unusual when Michael S. Steinberg was arrested on the morning of March 29 and accused of insider trading at Cohen’s $15 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP.

Bankers who were at the ICBA's national convention last month are considering ways to expand social media use and offer new products that will not run afoul of regulators.

Our legal expert discusses whether brokerage firms have to report arbitration actions against them.

The regulator's staff will investigate nondisclosures, misrepresentations, and more.

Changes for in-plan conversions are buried deep in the fiscal cliff tax deal. Here's how they may affect your clients.

Ex-Morgan Keegan Mutual Fund Directors to Settle SEC ClaimsEight former Morgan Keegan & Co. mutual-fund directors agreed to settle U.S. regulatory claims that they allowed assets backed by subprime mortgages to be overvalued as the housing market collapsed in 2007.

Manulife Asset Management has expanded its equity investing capabilities.

Eight former Morgan Keegan & Co. mutual-fund directors agreed to settle U.S. regulatory claims that they allowed assets backed by subprime mortgages to be overvalued as the housing market collapsed in 2007.

Massachusetts-based financial advisors could soon have to submit to a criminal background check under a proposed reform to the registration process in that state.

The House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing this week to discuss possible tax reforms on financial products such as derivatives.

Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, last week took the first steps in meeting and speaking with members of the Investment Company Institute.

PALM DESERT, Calif.-Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, last week took the first steps in meeting and speaking with members of the Investment Company Institute.

Collaboration between the Division of Enforcement and the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations at the Securities and Exchange Commission "really is very seamless," according to OCIE director Carlo V. di Florio.

PALM DESERT, Calif.-Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, last week took the first steps in meeting and speaking with members of the Investment Company Institute.

ICI Global has hired Elizabeth Todd as Director of Global Legal Affairs. Todd hails from the Financial Services Authority, where she was the Alternative Investment Funds Management Directive policy lead on the investment funds team.

“The primary reason for the drop-off in fines was because there were no auction rate securities cases in 2012,” said Brian Rubin, partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan.