SEC
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4.2
- noun
- /ɛs i si/
- US
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Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de EE. UU.
- The SEC is responsible for enforcing securities laws to protect investors.
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- SEC deputy enforcement director
And we know the history of the SEC and the CFTC.
- And we know the history of the SEC and the CFTC.
- But there was no SEC, there was no FINRA.
- The article goes on to discuss whether the FCA or the SEC should get involved.
- And last Friday the SEC put out a release.
- Well, it turned out that the SEC was wrong about that.
- I'll give some, you know, broad sense of what the SEC is trying to accomplish.
- And it is all true documents gotten from SEC filings and investigations I've done.
- And finally, the SEC is coming for crypto.
- This is not just the FDA, it is SEC and FAA and so on and so forth.
- They don't like the SEC enforcement on crypto in particular.
- He's a former SEC attorney and he's seen it from the inside.
- But yeah, folks, the SEC here saying not a squeeze.
- You have your SEC def and your chairman, maybe the vice chairman.
- I think it was both, but the SEC in the first was a consequence of the second.
Examples
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For example, many of the SEC's losses at trial have been in insider trading cases.
Academic text (2017) -
And the SEC has halted this whole scheme.
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And last Friday the SEC put out a release.
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Well, it turned out that the SEC was wrong about that.
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Some people say that the SEC in the United States could use much more resources.
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The last thing we want is to make the SEC nervous, all right?
Fiction book (2002) -
And finally, the SEC is coming for crypto.
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There are good and bad arguments advanced by both the SEC and its critics.
Academic text (2017) -
And we know the history of the SEC and the CFTC.
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If you want to get on the SEC website, go to sec.gov.
Synonyms
24
4.6
A U.S. government agency that watches financial markets and protects investors
11
4.0
A government group that checks companies and makes them follow safety rules to protect people
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
SEC is short for Securities, Exchange, and Commission. It names a government 'commission', or group, set up to watch markets and 'protect' people who invest, so today the SEC enforces the rules for buying and selling stocks.