Mary Jo White

Back in 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a rule that obliged all public companies to disclose the ratio of the compensation of their chief executive officers compared to the median pay of their employees. “The rule provides companies with substantial flexibility...

Within a week of Donald Trump's surprise election to the highest office in the land, SEC Chair Mary Jo White announced her plans to depart the agency at the end of the Obama administration. Within about a week, three other high ranking officers at the SEC announced that they, too, would be...

A leveraged exchange-traded funded (ETF) offers investors and traders a leveraged exposure to the price performance of an index. For example, the Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) is designed to offer an investment return approximately equal to 300 percent of the inverse (or...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Reuters that there may be a tech bubble. In the interview, Trump pointed out that there a lot of technology startups that "have never made any money" and have a "bad concept" as a business model. Despite that, Trump pointed...

This interview comes courtesy of Benzinga, host of the 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman, Mary Jo White, is tracking a herd of rouge "unicorns," and she's expressed concern. In the Silicon Valley basin, at Stanford University, White spoke...

SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White said the structure of the U.S. stock market will not change, at least not this year. White said the agency won't advance any major changes in 2016 to the fragmented system of trading U.S. stocks after undertaking a "holistic review" of rules, including whether stock...

Disclosing how executive pay matches up with shareholder returns would be mandated by a proposed new rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC approved publishing the proposal by a 3-2 vote Wednesday, kicking off a 60 public comment period. A second vote is required for adoption...

Circle the wagons, because what everybody thought would happen is in full force less than 24 hours after the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: NDAQ) shutdown: politicians, media outlets and traders calling for Wall Street reform -- and it’s only going to get worse. Thursday, not long after noon EST, 3,200...