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SEC Boosts Tally of Enforcement Successes With Routine Actions
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been trying for four years to convince investors and critics that it’s back on the beat.
As part of that effort, the agency has cited a record number of enforcement actions over the past two years -- 734 in fiscal 2012 and 735 the year before -- as evidence that an overhaul of its investigative forces has made the regulator smarter, faster and more effective.