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Securities and Exchange Commission - Enforcement

The Division of Enforcement investigates possible violations of securities laws, recommends Commission action when appropriate, either in a federal court or before an administrative law judge, and negotiates settlements.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Has a clear purpose and serves a unique and necessary role in the Federal government.
  • Brings substantive cases in a timely manner and successfully resolves a significant percentage of the matters for which judgements were entered in the past year.
  • Current measures do not show that the program achieves its goals of detection and prevention of potential violations of securities laws.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with other enforcement programs to establish measures that better reflect effectiveness, including the development of an efficiency measure.

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