Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, Fiscal Year 2021

SEC OWB 2021 Annual Report to Congress (15 Nov 2021, 44 pp.; maps on pp. 31 and 39-40 are images; Appendix C country table already recorded): message (cumulative >$1.1 billion to 214 and sanctions nearly $5 billion / disgorgement >$3.1 billion / >$1.3 billion returned; FY2011-FY2020 $562 million to 106; FY2021 $564 million to 108; 318 Final Orders; 354 claims to Preliminary Determination or Summary Disposition; tips >12,200 from 99 foreign countries; hotline 2,600 calls, 29,500 since 2011; two protection actions; two bars), staffing, process and deadlines (record request 30 days; summary disposition 15 and 30 days; other deadlines already in rules), 2020 amendments, top 10 awards chart (6 per-award and 4 per-covered-action entries added as month-dated cases, flagged as overlapping; FY2021 entries already recorded), five largest FY2021 awards (already recorded; splits and factors as suggested corrections), 150 NoCAs, 86 Covered Actions, award factor statistics (46% at maximum before amendments, 89% presumption, 7 delay matters, 2 culpability, award % distribution 85/10/5, 4 DPAs/NPAs >$117 million, 8 independent-analysis awards, 69 PSDs / 31 final), profiles (20% abroad, 56/44 caused/contributed, 60% insiders, >75% of them reported internally, six joint matters, 17 related-action recipients), anti-retaliation and 21F-17 actions (4 and 14 to date; GPB, Guggenheim, Collector's Coffee as events), tips (12,210 and categories already recorded; category shares added; tips by year chart FY2012-FY2020 added (FY2021 already recorded); Appendix A FY2018-FY2020 by category added (FY2018 ICO bar unlabelled); Appendix B 53 states and territories added (sum 6,453 vs "approximately 6,470"); 133 countries since inception), >1,300 tracked matters, Fund table (all lines; adds up to $144,442,133.88, while the FY2022 report gives an opening balance of $144,441,949.35), Notable cases added: Rel. 92542, 90350, bars Rel. 92969 and 93145. Not recorded: 46 press releases (outreach, out of scope), delay range in words, the template placeholder "approximately $? million to ? individuals" on p. 10. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).