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Morgan Stanley fined $4M for allowing rogue Apple stock trades

–A+Morgan Stanley fined $4M for allowing rogue Apple stock tradesBy Mikey CampbellWednesday, December 10, 2014, 05:02 pm PT (08:02 pm ET)Investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $4 million in fines for violating the market access rule when it allowed a rogue trader to fraudulently purchase some $1 billion of Apple stock […]

Invasion of the Data Snatchers, Big Data and the Internet of Things …

By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood. Crump is a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and a non-residential fellow with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and an adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU. Her principle focus is representing individuals challenging the lawfulness of government surveillance programs. Follow her on Twitter at @CatherineNCrump. Harwood […]

SEC Employees Are Freakishly Good Stock Traders – Business Insider

Wikimedia CommonsTwo academics from the University of Virgina got a hold of the trading records of SEC employees — then they built a mock hedge fund to see how it would do. The results are all in a paper presetned at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The academics, Emory University professor Shivaram Rajgopal and Georgia State University accounting PhD candidate Roger […]