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- A.M. Best Special Report: Treasury Department, Regulators Respond to Global Financial Crisis
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- The Treasury Department and banking regulators unveiled several initiatives to unlock frozen credit markets and help restore confidence in the nation's banking system amid a growing global financial crisis. The Treasury Department will directly invest as much as $250 billion in financial institutions as part of the...
- Research articles 2008-10-27
- Confronting Economic Challenges Head On
- President Bush Outlines Five Measures To Address The Nation's Financial Challenges WASHINGTON -- Today, President Bush outlined decisive government action to preserve and sustain America's financial system and economy. This is a pivotal moment for America's economy. Problems that originated in the credit markets - and first showed up...
- Research articles 2008-09-19
- The Australian Securitisation Forum's Sydney evening series discussion was lucky to hear from Cecilia Tarrant, who has recently been appointed chair of the European Securitisation Forum
- The Australian Securitisation Forum's Sydney evening series discussion was lucky to hear from Cecilia Tarrant, who has recently been appointed chair of the European Securitisation Forum. Tarrant had flown in from Europe in the morning. Despite the jetlag, she gave a short speech on the ESF's recent dealings with European...
- Research articles 2008-09-15
- Retail regulators out of touch
- One of the frustrations U.S. retailing routinely confronts in its ongoing tussle with our country's legislative and regulatory bodies is a citizenry that neither understands, cares much nor feels any particular empathy for retailing. As such, the agencies and offices that make our rules and laws often tend to take...
- Research articles 2008-09-08
- Goldman Sachs Settles with State Regulators and Offers to Repurchase Auction Rate Securities Sold to Its Private Clients
- NEW YORK -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that Goldman, Sachs & Co. has entered into a settlement in principle with the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York and the Illinois Securities Department (on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Wal-Mart profit up 17 percent, raises outllook
- Retail Wal-Mart says profit up 17 percent: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. raised its full-year earnings forecast Thursday after second-quarter profit rose more than expected, helped by tight inventory controls and a renewed focus on low prices that is attracting financially squeezed shoppers around the world. But the world's largest...
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- Backlash against the bankers
- Arcane Federal Reserve Board regulations don't typically generate outpourings of emotion from consumers. But its proposals to curb the most egregious abuses by credit card issuers drew a record 56,000 comments. In a typical letter, a woman from Corpus Christi, Texas, urged the Fed to "protect...
- Research articles 2008-08-13
- European regulators OK Delta merger
- Delta Air Lines Inc. on Wednesday won European regulatory approval to buy Northwest Airlines Corp. and form the world's largest carrier. Delta also set aside 3.5 percent of the new company's stock for management compensation. An additional 1.6 percent of equity will be earmarked for future executive stock...
- Research articles 2008-08-07
- Australian regulator announces special investigation into Qantas
- SYDNEY AFP — Australian civil aviation officials on Sunday announced a special review of Qantas after three mid-air dramas in the space of two weeks. The investigation by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority CASA will take place over the next two weeks, spokesman Peter Gibson said. "We have...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Labels Under Fire
- To the North American Securities Administrators Association NASAA, there are plenty of modern-day Willie Suttons eager to go "where the money is." Today, "the money" is largely held by seniors. Hence, regulators say, seniors are the targets of unscrupulous salespeople armed not with pistols, but with professional designations that exaggerate...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Major housing bill nears passage
- A long-awaited major housing bill that would create a new regulator for the government-sponsored enterprises GSEs, as well as modernize the Federal Housing Administration FHA and provide funding for FHA refinancings, passed the Senate in mid-July. The bill's passage was lauded by the Mortgage Bankers Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- The XBRL engine builds speed: governments and regulators see interactive data as the key component in the global financial reporting machine, but companies and internal auditors have been slow to plug in
- IT IS A FEATURE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION that an idea can move from theory and speculation to everyday acceptance in the blink of an eye. Twenty years ago, a mobile phone was an oddity; five years ago, most people couldn't access the Internet without plugging a cable into a phone...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- What Should Uncle Sam Do?
- NEWSWEEK’s Business Roundtable takes stock of the real damage—and offer solutions to the economic crisis. A Modest Proposal Robert Reich, secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and author of “Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life” Of course Fannie and Freddie...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- French regulator fines Societe Generale for rogue trade
- PARIS AFP — France's banking regulator Friday fined Societe Generale four million euros (6.3 million dollars) over "grave deficiencies" in its internal controls that enabled a massive rogue trade scandal at the bank. The banking commission, imposing a financial penalty at the upper end of the maximum possible five...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- EU regulators clear Nokia's takeover of Navteq
- BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission gave the greenlight on Wednesday to Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia's purchase of US digital navigation group Navteq after finding the deal would not hurt competition. "After an in-depth examination, launched in March 2008, the commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- Direct Edge Taps Hess
- Direct Edge ECN, in the process of filing for exchange status, tapped the former chief legal counsel at Brut ECN to lead the charge. The ECN hired Eric Hess as its general counsel, giving him responsibility for overseeing all legal and regulatory affairs of the company. That includes leading efforts...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- GSE reform bill clears Senate Banking Committee
- A long-awaited major housing bill that would create a new regula- tor for all of the government-sponsored enterprises GSE, as well as provide funding for FHA refinancings and create affordable housing cleared committee in the Senate in May--a move lauded by the Mortgage Bankers Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Regulators peer over the hedges
- Amid talk of greater regulation of financial markets, a heated debate is raging as to whether hedge funds should face more oversight. Advocates of regulation say more disclosure and oversight of these funds will make them more accountable, while critics say it will increase costs and potentially create...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- Suez, GDF say regulator approves merger
- PARIS AFP — The French financial market regulator AMF has approved the long-planned merger of giant gas utility Gaz de France and French energy group Suez, the companies said on Monday. The boards of the two companies earlier this month approved the merger. The companies said Monday they would...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- European regulators approve breast cancer drug: GSK
- LONDON AFP — British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday that European regulators had given marketing approval for its tablet breast cancer drug Tyverb. "GlaxoSmithKline announced today that the European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorisation for Tyverb ... for all 27 European Union member states," GSK said...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
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