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In a settled enforcement action, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Shift4 Payments, Inc. (“Shift4”), a payment processing company based in Pennsylvania, with failing to disclose payments made to immediate family members of executive officers and directors as compensation.

Item 404(a) of Reg S-K requires companies describe transactions since the beginning of the last

On January 21, 2025, SEC Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda launched a crypto task force charged with “developing a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets.”

The SEC acknowledged in the announcement that it “has relied primarily on enforcement actions to regulate crypto retroactively and reactively,” resulting in “confusion about what is legal, which

On December 17, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it had settled charges against Ohio-based Express, Inc. (“Express”). The SEC ultimately found that Express violated Sections 13(a) and 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rules 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-15(a), 14a-3, and 13a-9 by failing to disclose all of its former