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SEC and exchanges discuss easing disclosure rules for public companies

Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange are in talks with the Securities and Exchanges Commission about easing regulatory burdens for public companies. The reforms under discussion - which are being sought to encourage more richly valued start-ups to list - include reducing the quantum of disclosures and the costs of going public to making it harder for minority investors to agitate, according to sources. "The numbers are very clear that companies are staying private longer," Nasdaq President Nelson Griggs told Reuters.

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Deloitte, PwC and EY fined in Dutch audit exams scandal

The US audit regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), has imposed a total fine of $8.5m on the Dutch branches of Deloitte, PwC, and EY due to widespread cheating on internal training exams, including ethics tests. The PCAOB reported that "hundreds" of staff, including senior leadership, improperly shared answers from 2018 to 2022. The fine follows a similar incident in which KPMG Netherlands was fined $25m for answer-sharing. The PCAOB noted that the firms cooperated with the investigation and have since implemented clearer policies. Deloitte and PwC will each pay $3m, while EY will pay $2.5m in civil penalties.

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