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Research from the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business, analyzing data from the Securities Enforcement Empirical Database (SEED) on SEC settlements with public companies, is featured

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Limits on the SEC’s ability to obtain disgorgement could help explain the decline in its enforcement results—as measured by the penalties that firms pay to settle regulatory investigations. The SEC obtained fines against public companies totaling $65 million during the first half of 2018, the lowest amount since at least 2009, according to Cornerstone Research, an economic consulting firm."

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