Amerikanske børsmyndighederne mener, at der er gode erfaringer med Whistleblower systemer, hvor børstilsynet belønner whistleblowers, der afslører snyd og bedrag i en virksomhed: ”According to the SEC’s Enforcement Director, the $30 million award was paid to an individual who had provided the SEC with information concerning an “ongoing fraud that would have been very difficult to detect.” Only 14 awards have been made to date, the next largest being a $14 million award in 2013. The award might well have been much larger had the whistleblower acted more promptly. According to the SEC, the award was reduced from the maximum level because the whistleblower had failed to come forward earlier, purportedly because of uncertainty as to whether the SEC would take action in the matter. The SEC dismissed this rationale out of hand, calling the delay “unreasonable” in light of the fact that investors had “continued to suffer significant monetary injury that otherwise might have been avoided.” It is unclear how long the whistleblower had delayed or how much the award had been reduced as a result,” hedder det på Harvard Governance Blog.
