On September 25, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced settled charges against 25 entities and individuals for late beneficial-ownership and insider-transaction reports. The SEC had levied penalties on these filers because of failures to timely report information about their holdings and transactions in public-company stock. Without admitting or denying the charges, 2 public companies, 13 other entities, and 10 individuals agreed to cease committing and causing violations and pay civil penalties. The civil penalties ranged from $10,000 to $200,000 for individuals, and $40,000 to $750,000 for the entities involved, including $200,000 each for two public companies that were charged with contributing to filing failures by certain corporate insiders and failing to report their insiders’ filing delinquencies.