On August 20, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden signed an Executive Order blocking all property and interests in property of individuals and entities identified by the Secretary of State to be involved in Russian energy export pipelines.
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The SEC is providing new "Application Programming Interfaces" that aggregate financial statement data and make other enhancements to improve public company disclosure on the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system.
The FTC filed an amended antitrust complaint against Facebook, alleging the company bought two main rivals and engaged in illegal "buy-or-bury" and "opened-first-closed-later" schemes.
CFTC Commissioner Brian D. Quintenz will step down on August 31, 2021. He served as a Commissioner since August 2017.
The SEC charged five individuals with trading on material non-public information related to a subscription video streaming service's subscriber growth. The scheme involved three former employees who worked as software engineers and two closely associated individuals.