Two months ago I declared September 2010 “Insider Trading Month” for the Securities and Exchange Commission's sudden burst of enforcement activity on that front. Then came November, and boy, did enforcement go off the charts.
The extraordinary activity of prosecutors and regulators that month set Wall Street traders abuzz, but compliance officers and other executives at public companies should also take careful notice. What's so different about the latest round of insider trading cases? Investigators are focusing on the flow of supply-chain information. That includes a lot more people than the gossipy traders working in lower Manhattan.
On November 20, reports ...