The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said yesterday that the agency has brought 700 enforcement actions in the 2020 fiscal year, a ‘significant’ amount after March 15, Reuters reported. In a virtual address kicking off “SEC Speaks 2020,” an annual SEC enforcement conference put on in conjunction with the Practicing Law Institute, Jay Clayton said the agency had also obtained financial remedies of more than $4 billion, up from a year prior. The SEC has also reviewed disclosures of more than 10,700 funds -- including more than 1,200 new funds -- in 2020, an increase of 7 percent over last year, Clayton added.
