Articles by Ross Kerber and Simon Jessop

Asset Managers Urged to Make Cyber Risk Top Priority

Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging the companies in which they invest, with a lack of clarity from the businesses themselves compounding the problem. Banks have …

Citi Skimped on ID Theft Protection for Data Breach Victims: Reuters

After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates. Citigroup, which had over 360,000 credit card accounts exposed last …

Supreme Court Defines Primary Liability in Mutual Fund Prospectus Case

Janus Capital Group Inc. and a subsidiary cannot be held liable in a lawsuit by shareholders over allegedly false statements in prospectuses for several Janus mutual funds, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. By a 5-4 vote in a narrow …

Has Time Come to Cap Whistleblower Awards?

Corporate whistleblowers are getting bigger and bigger payouts for reporting fraud, sparking a fresh debate about whether the rewards are justified. Whistleblowers have collected billions of dollars since the late 1980s by suing government contractors under the False Claims Act …

Huge Hacking Case Highlights Companies’ Vulnerability to Breaches

Consumers and companies are vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves even after U.S. authorities arrested a man they said was a master hacker who stole 170 million credit and debit card numbers. Estimates on the total financial impact of breaches …

SEC Watchdog Blasts Agency for Fumbling Madoff Probes

U.S. securities regulators missed “numerous” red flags that may have led to Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme and never did a “thorough and competent” probe despite complaints dating to 1992, a federal watchdog has concluded. The U.S. Securities and …

Huge Hacking Case Highlights Companies’ Vulnerability to Breaches

Consumers and companies are vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves even after U.S. authorities arrested a man they said was a master hacker who stole 170 million credit and debit card numbers. Estimates on the total financial impact of breaches …