The SEC Whistleblower Program pays eligible insiders 10–30% of sanctions over $1 million when their original information leads to a successful enforcement action.
Submit Your InformationYour tip must be original — meaning it's not already known to the SEC. Insider information, internal documents, and firsthand knowledge of ongoing violations qualify.
The SEC allows anonymous tips through an attorney. Your identity remains protected throughout the investigation and is only disclosed if required by a court proceeding.
When original information leads to SEC sanctions over $1 million, eligible whistleblowers receive 10–30% of the amount collected. Awards have reached into the hundreds of millions. (15 U.S.C. § 78u-6; SEC, 2023)
Falsified financial statements, improper revenue recognition, off-balance-sheet arrangements, and material misrepresentations in public company filings with the SEC.
Institutional insider trading schemes, tipping networks, and trading on material non-public information by corporate executives, board members, or investment professionals.
Coordinated schemes to artificially inflate or deflate securities prices, wash trading, spoofing, and organized pump-and-dump operations affecting public markets. Manipulation involving commodities or derivatives markets can also qualify under the CFTC whistleblower program, which pays 10–30% of sanctions collected over $1 million.
Advisers misappropriating client funds, undisclosed conflicts of interest, false performance reporting, and breach of fiduciary duty to investment clients.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations — bribing foreign officials to obtain or retain business — by U.S. public companies or their foreign subsidiaries.
Materially false or misleading statements in securities offerings, unregistered offerings, and Ponzi schemes targeting institutional or retail investors.
Material omissions or misstatements in required SEC filings outside financial statements, including undisclosed related-party transactions, cybersecurity incidents, executive compensation, and other information investors are entitled to know.
Since 2012, the SEC has awarded more than $2.2 billion to whistleblowers. The largest single award was nearly $279 million. Original insider information drives the program.
Source: SEC Whistleblower Program, FY2024 Annual Report; SEC Press Release 2023-89
For securities violations with estimated sanctions exceeding $1M
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