SEC whistleblower law requires original information about securities violations. Generic complaints don't qualify.

Julia M. Jordan of Sullivan & Cromwell writes: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 2016 Annual Report on its Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program reflects that 2016 was historic for the program, ...

This year has seen a record percentage of whistleblower claim denials by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[1] This rising trend of award denials is a departure from the SEC’s previous track ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued its sixth whistleblower payment, awarding a tipster $150,000 for helping to stop a scheme that was defrauding investors. The U.S. Securities and ...

Companies have learned, some the hard way, that even standard confidentiality or separation agreements can violate whistleblower protections if they lack explicit carve-outs for reporting to ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order in August denying a whistleblower award to an individual who provided the agency with evidence that a defendant in a previously filed ...