SEC reports Enforcement stats for fiscal 2023 —with big contributions from whistleblowers

The SEC has announced its Enforcement stats for fiscal 2023, which revealed that the SEC filed 784 total enforcement actions, up 3% from the 760 filed in fiscal 2022.  However, the level of financial remedies declined in fiscal 2023 to $4.9 billion from a record $6.4 billion last year. Nevertheless, it was still the second highest amount in SEC […]

SEC reports Enforcement stats for fiscal 2023 —with big contributions from whistleblowers
Posted by Cydney S. Posner, Cooley LLP, on Saturday, December 9, 2023
Editor's Note:

Cydney S. Posner is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP. This post is based on her Cooley memorandum.

The SEC has announced its Enforcement stats for fiscal 2023, which revealed that the SEC filed 784 total enforcement actions, up 3% from the 760 filed in fiscal 2022.  However, the level of financial remedies declined in fiscal 2023 to $4.9 billion from a record $6.4 billion last year. Nevertheless, it was still the second highest amount in SEC history. (Of course, you might recall that Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the Division of Enforcement, said last year that the SEC didn’t expect to break last year’s records and set new ones every year because they “expect behaviors to change. We expect compliance.”) (more…)