On November 15, 2019, the SEC published its annual report to Congress
covering the agency's whistleblower program.
The report, which covers the period of October 1, 2018 through
September 30, 2019, was prepared by the SEC's Office of the
Whistleblower ("OWB") to summarize its whistleblower
bounty program, report on recent statistical trends, and revisit
key amendments to the SEC's Dodd-Frank regulations that were
first introduced in June 2018.
Whistleblower Bounty Program
The statistics provided in the SEC's report suggest that the
whistleblower program slightly contracted in FY 2019, compared to
the previous year. OWB received a total of 5,212
whistleblower tips in FY 2019, 70 fewer than were received in the
record-setting FY 2018. This total still represents an
approximately 74% increase in tips received since the SEC started
tracking statistics for the whistleblower bounty initiative in
2012.
