The biggest names in social networking — Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn — haven’t yet gone public, but their stock does get traded by the very rich on private exchanges. Now, some of those transactions have raised the …
Linda Almonte, a former employee of JPMorgan Chase who is suing the bank for wrongful termination, has upped the ante by filing a whistleblower complaint with the SEC. She’s alleging grotesque and illegal practices with Chase c…
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…
On Wednesday, the FBI arrested Don Chu, an expert on Asian markets for Primary Global Research, setting the tone for the SEC’s crackdown on insider trading. Chu was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspir…
Wellington Management has received a document request from federal regulators looking into possible insider trading on the part of money managers with the firm, Bloomberg News reported, citing a person familiar with the process…