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On May 10, 2021, the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower announced multi-million dollar awards to two whistleblowers who provided the SEC with information that assisted the agency in bringing...

The SEC awarded more than $7 million to a whistleblower for providing critical information related to an enforcement action for "serious financial abuses."

The broad definition of the term whistleblower has been used to describe a person who reports violations of securities laws.

Recent Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions have zeroed in on whistleblower protections in employee separation agreements, signaling that now may be the time for companies...

It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court will grant Digital Realty's request to address this incredibly divisive issue.

On March 19, 2018, the SEC announced its highest-ever Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, with two whistleblowers splitting a nearly $50 million award ...

The SEC released its Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Report (the "Report") to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program on November 15, 2016.

The SEC's OCIE recently published a risk alert noting that the SEC exam staff intends to examine registrants' compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act's whistleblower provisions.

Dodd-Frank was signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010, giving whistleblowers a way to come forward and report on companies.

The DOJ will continue its aggressive prosecution of claims arising out of the financial crisis and called for enhanced financial fraud whistleblower awards.

European Commissioner of Competition Margrethe Vestager made news when she announced that the European Commission launched a new IT system enabling individuals to anonymously report cartel activity.

Alja Poler De Zwart authored an article for the Journal of Investment Compliance covering the implications of the European Union's new Whistleblowing Directive

In the first major action of 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with a publicly traded global software...

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DoJ") announced the issuance of its first-ever whistleblower reward, granting $1 million to an individual whose information led to EBLOCK Corporation resolving criminal antitrust...

On May 8, 2019, the House Committee on Financial Services passed H.R. 2515, the Whistleblower Protection Reform Act of 2019.

On September 18, 2013, the SEC voted to propose a new rule that would require public companies to disclose the ratio of compensation of its CEO to the median compensation of its employees.

Since the Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower-program went into effect on July 21, 2010, the SEC has processed more than 25,000 tips and awarded over $2 billion to whistleblowers.