Two years ago, I asked the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers to require investment banks and their analysts to disclose clearly all financial relationships with the companies they rate.
The trade commission ordered Palm to "disclose, clearly and conspicuously, when consumers have to buy add-ons in order to perform advertised functions".
Judge Holwell, who has since left the bench and entered private practice, found that the government acted with "reckless disregard for the truth" by not disclosing "clearly critical" information about the scope of the S.E.C. investigation.
It is extremely difficult to compare different products, and firms selling them do not make it easy by having such complex charges that their own staff struggle to disclose clearly and completely when asked.
The stock exchanges, which oversee analyst behavior, need to finalize a uniform code of conduct that requires analysts and their firms to disclose clearly all current holdings in, and investment banking relationships with, the companies whose shares they rate.
If Facebook, in the days and weeks leading up to the I.P.O., had explicitly told analysts at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and J. P. Morgan that rising mobile usage was crimping its revenue growth — it hasn't yet found a way to effectively serve ads to mobile users — this should have been disclosed clearly.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 on Tuesday to order mutual funds to disclose clearly their policies on the rapid buying and selling of fund shares, known as "market timing".
That doesn't mean I'll never mention a startup that I own stock in here on TechCrunch, but it'll only be as part of a larger story and everything will be disclosed clearly in the post.
Katz doesn't specifically mention this new service, but it seems likely that this is what he's hinting at when he argues that "Google should disclose, clearly and in plain English, when advertisers receive better placement in search results and when a result is a Google-owned property".
When ever and why ever it turns out that Jared had to amend his form to disclose clearly relevant information, it doesn't look good.
