SEC in Talks to Settle Mortgage-Bond Probe

Regulators are in talks with several major banks to settle a number of investigations of their sales of mortgage-bonds, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The probe focused on the sale of pools of mortgages and other loans as collateralized debt oblig…

The SEC’s Risky Expansion of Insider-Trading Cases

The feds appear to be trying to broaden the notion of insider trading to include the information-gathering of hedge funds as criminal activity. But this could be difficult to prove in court, because there’s no statuary definiti…