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How The SEC Is Violating My Wife’s First Amendment Rights

Feld Thoughts

The common description of pay to play is “ the practice of making campaign contributions and related payments to elected officials in order to influence the awarding of lucrative contracts for the management of public pension plan assets and similar government investment accounts. &# Yup – sounds like bribery to me.

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Is Your Credit Union Board of Directors ?Cyber-Ready??

Board Effect

Cyberattacks Are Here and Rising Globally speaking, organizations in the financial services sector suffered the second-largest number of known breaches in 2022, just behind government organizations and ahead of the retail sector, according to threat intelligence firm Flashpoint. Ransomware attacks are rising and becoming increasingly costly.

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Is Your Credit Union Board of Directors ?Cyber-Ready??

Board Effect

Cyberattacks Are Here and Rising Globally speaking, organizations in the financial services sector suffered the second-largest number of known breaches in 2022, just behind government organizations and ahead of the retail sector, according to threat intelligence firm Flashpoint. Ransomware attacks are rising and becoming increasingly costly.

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U.S. Senator Edward Kaufman– Market Structure at the Root of U.S. Equity Crisis

Pascal's View

Lost in this reflexive defense against meaningful government review, however, is a more overarching concern: the integrity of our capital markets, which are now too fragmented, too opaque and well beyond the effective surveillance of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

If they have worked in business for 20 years, you have an 700-1 experience differential right out of the gate. That said, the NYSE and NASDAQ have SEC approval for “Direct Listing with a Primary Raise.” Both the members of Party B and Party C work on 30-40 IPOs per year. Interestingly, the 7.5X

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