The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Guggenheim Partners over some controversial California real estate deals. The agency is looking into three transactions based...

The Securities and Exchange Commission isn’t done with hedge funder Steve Cohen. The regulatory agency will look to Michael Steinberg, a former trader at...

UPDATED: Dec. 10, 12:56 p.m.: A Flushing lawyer pocketed more than $1.2 million — and is set to receive $3.1 million more — in commission after...

Nicholas Schorsch, who yesterday resigned from his position as executive chair of scandal-hit American Realty Capital Properties, is giving up $100 million in pay. According to company...

Foreclosure rates are tumbling nationwide, but one mortgage tycoon might have missed the memo. Bill Erbey foreclosed on more than 1,000 homes last quarter...

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a new rule today that requires financial firms selling securities backed by mortgages and auto loans to disclose details...

Morgan Stanley will pay $275 million to resolve the Security and Exchange Commission’s claim that the firm misled its investors in the sale of...

An appeals court has given life to Citigroup’s $285 million mortgage-securities pact with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, after the bank challenged U.S. District...

Richard Harriton, the former head of Bear Stearns’ securities clearing arm, has listed his full-floor Belaire Condominium penthouse at Belaire Condominium for $9.2 million.

New rules requiring real estate investment trusts to open up about fees are aiming to make the value of the companies clearer for investors.

The base investment unit that thousands of individual investors used to measure their stakes in the Empire State Building are worth about $82,000 less...

A Manhattan-based developer who has raised $171 million through crowdfunding for a skyscraper project in South America plans to replicate the fundraising strategy for...

Nine real estate investment trusts have filed to sell approximately $2.5 billion in shares since the beginning of the year, the most significant volume...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be close to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Times reported, over whether the...

Diane Passage, a former Scores stripper and current wife of scam artist Kenneth Starr, may get thrown out of the $7.5 million Upper East...

Six months after Goldman Sachs paid $550 million to settle government fraud charges related to a mortgage deal, it’s getting hit with a second...

Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of securities fraud linked to mortgage investments,...

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office has launched a criminal probe into whether Goldman Sachs or its employees committed securities fraud during mortgage trading, sources...

Goldman Sachs may opt to settle its fraud case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in order to avoid continued public humiliation after being grilled...

Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre, of Goldman Sachs Fabrice Tourre, the French bond trader named in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s case against Goldman Sachs,...