It also seeks to protect participants from market manipulation, investigates abusive trading practices and fraud, and maintains fluid processes for clearing transactions. The CFTC has evolved since 1974. In 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was passed.12This changed the landscape of...
have indicated that tips account for approximate 40% of frauds found.Footnote23As the Provision can contribute to reducing the incentives for fraudulence, we investigate how the passage of the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provision in 2010 affects the association between local corruption and adviser misco...
"Credit card payments are protected by the Fair Credit Billing Act (FCBA), which allows you to dispute billing errors, which can include unauthorized charges, and temporarily withhold payment while the creditor investigates," Adler says. There's no guideline in the FCBA that explicitly states th...
Unfortunately, absolute trust is then placed in the verification system being used. So breaching this system gives an attacker the keys to the kingdom. To address this issue, "decentralization" is a new paradigm that removes any single point of vulnerability. Our work investigates and develops th...
Jeffrey Wigand is at the center of an epic multi-billion-dollar struggle that reaches from Capitol Hill to the hallowed journalistic halls of CBS’s 60 Minutes. Marie Brenner investigates.