SEC Faces Questions About Tipster Policy.

The article reports that U.S. Senator Charles Grassley has requested the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) report on its policies to protect the identity of whistleblowers and other informants in SEC investigations. Grassley's request follows a previous report in the publication that the SEC inadvertently revealed the identity of Peter G. Earle, a cooperating witness in an investigation of the firm Pipeline Trading Systems LLC.