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SEC announces enforcement results for fiscal year 2024

Sanjay Wadhwa SEC
Sanjay Wadhwa, Acting Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Photo: SEC

The SEC announced that it collected $8.2 billion in monetary penalties for FY 2024, the highest amount for the fines in the regulator’s history.

The SEC just announced that it filed 583 total enforcement actions in fiscal year 2024 while obtaining orders for $8.2 billion in financial remedies, the highest amount in SEC history. That’s two-thirds more than what was collected in fiscal year 2023.

Just over half that amount (56%) came from the agency’s securities fraud settlement with