Intelligize

Intelligize is a company that has applications and databases to perform and retrieve SEC filings, proxy statements and annual reports. Some of the featured products Intelligize is Agreement Checker, Comment Checker, SEC Checker and Precedent Analyzer. Interested?  You can request a demonstration  here.

SEC full text search

beSpacific reports that the SEC has released a full text search form, covering the last four years of filings.

SEC Press Release Feed

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a news release RSS feed: http://www.sec.gov/rss/news/press.xml

SEC "Red Book" released

Law.com article about the SEC "Red Book" being released to the public. The enforcement manual may be found at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/enforcementmanual.pdf.

The Money Crisis

CNN Money has a whole section devoted to stories on the developing fiscal crisis.

http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/crisiswallstreet/2008/index.html

and from the SEC:

"Testimony Concerning Turmoil in U.S. Credit Markets: Recent Actions Regarding Government Sponsored Entities, Investment Banks and Other Financial Institutions"
by Chairman Christopher Cox
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate
September 23, 2008

http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/2008/ts092308cc.htm

IDEA replaces EDGAR

SEC is replacing the old EDGAR database with the new interactive IDEA database. See the press release for - partial quote here:

The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. The decision to replace EDGAR marks the SEC’s transition from collecting forms and documents to making the information itself freely available to investors to give them better and more up-to-date financial disclosure in a form they can readily use.

The SEC and Choicepoint

Do you remember a few years ago (2004 to be exact) the electronic theft of hundreds of thousands of records from the Choicepoint database and during this time two executives were selling large amounts of stocks?

After these incidents, the company and the executives have been under investigation with the SEC. In 2006, the company paid $15 million to settle FTC charges about their record-handling procedures.

Wednesday, the SEC closed the investigation into the company and its executives without further enforcement action.

Read more here at Forbes (beware of ads):
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/01/22/ap4560028.html

Finding Hidden Intelligence in SEC Filings

PDF of a presentation by Barbara Fullerton, Manager of Librarian Relations, 10-K Wizard and Catherine Whitney, Research Librarian, Thompson & Knight LLP. The presentation was given on May 2, 2007 at SCIP (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals).

The PDF can be found at LLRX.com

SEC Suspending Trading for Companies Touted in Spam

From a press release dated March 8, 2007:

SEC Suspends Trading Of 35 Companies Touted In Spam Email Campaigns
Investor Protection Agency Unveils "Operation Spamalot"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Washington, D.C., March 8, 2007 - The Securities and Exchange Commission this morning suspended trading in the securities of 35 companies that have been the subject of recent and repeated spam email campaigns (see examples). The trading suspensions - the most ever aimed at spammed companies - were ordered because of questions regarding the adequacy and accuracy of information about the companies.
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The trading suspensions will last for ten business days. The trading suspensions commenced today at 9:30 a.m., EDT, and terminate at 11:59 p.m., EDT, on March 21, 2007.

General information and links on this topic can be found at http://www.sec.gov/investor/35tradingsuspensions.htm.