- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
Businesses must step up their internal policing and do a better job of reporting violations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to the agency’s head of enforcement.
Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, addressed the agency’s fiscal year 2023 performance during a discussion at the SEC Securities Enforcement Forum 2023 held Oct. 25.
“We had an incredibly productive year” of enforcements, said Grewal regarding FY2023, which ended Sept. 30.
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