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Prior to joining the SEC, Schapiro was the highly paid chief executive officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory agency that also missed Madoff's scam. Upon leaving FINRA last month, Schapiro received a $7.2 million severance payment...
Interestingly, Markopolos said he never went to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a nongovernmental regulator that oversees 5,000 brokerages, out of fear for his safety: "Bernie Madoff was chairman of their predecessor organization and his brother Peter was former vice chairman." Those links to Madoff, he felt, could have exposed him to harm, especially since a lot of feeder fund money "was coming from Russia and South America...
...FINRA was created in July 2007 through the consolidation of NASD and the member regulation, enforcement and arbitration functions of the New York Stock Exchange. The former chairman of FINRA, Mary Schapiro, is now the new head of the SEC, selected by President Obama and approved by the Senate Banking Committee last month...
...FINRA and other self-regulators historically have played it safe in their enforcement," says Columbia's Coffee. (Self-regulatory organizations do not usually draw their authority directly from Congress, and may be financed by the industry they cover.) "FINRA's been tougher than its predecessors, but it still tends to focus more on outlying and smaller firms; it's been more deferential to the bigger players. At SEC, she has to clean house and needs truly aggressive prosecutors." (See who's to blame for the current financial crisis...
...Richard Wallace knows something about Schapiro and believes she will take bold action. Wallace worked at Schapiro's FINRA for the last 12 years, and before that was an enforcement prosecutor at the SEC. Wallace is now partner at the law firm Foley & Lardner, chief counsel of its financial industry regulatory authority practice. "Within a few months of coming on board at FINRA, Mary brought charges against Banker's Trust Securities," Wallace says. "She jumped right in, she beefed up enforcement, and wasn't afraid at all to take on powerful interests. She was an enforcement officer once, and enforcement...