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SEC’s WhatsApp Probe Reaches Into Private Equity With Apollo, Carlyle, KKR
- Apollo, Carlyle, KKR are asked about electronic messaging
- Banking giants paid combined $2 billion to settle allegations
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Financial regulators are looking at the biggest private equity firms’ use of WhatsApp and other messaging apps for work, in a signal that the US is ramping up its push to police Wall Street’s electronic communications.
Apollo Global Management Inc., Carlyle Group Inc. and KKR & Co. said in regulatory filings this week that they received letters from the Securities and Exchange Commission on their use of electronic messaging for business.