Regulation

If Mitchell Glassman visited your town sometime in the past 35 years, it probably wasn't for a good reason. The FDIC veteran has been involved in nearly 1,000 takeovers.

U.S. proxy advisory firms are now caught in the middle of a heated debate over how-and even whether-they should be regulated.

Former President Bill Clinton stood alongside President Barack Obama at a news conference and endorsed Obama’s deal with congressional Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and unemployment benefits.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday filed a six-count indictment against three former UBS bankers — Peter Ghavami, Gary Heinz and Michael Welty — for participating in fraud schemes and conspiracies in connection with the bidding on contracts for municipal bonds from 2001 until 2006.

The Investment Company Institute and the Independent Directors Council have filed a friends-of-the-court brief in support of the lawsuit the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed to vacate the new SEC proxy access rules as they apply to registered investment companies.

To avoid a repeat of 2008 when food and energy prices in Europe reached record highs, the European Commission is considering regulating the commodities markets.

The new slate of House Republicans picked to preside over financial services said they intend to downsize or dismantle the mandates supported by their predecessors.

The online discussion about whether, in our fiduciary debate, we should have one standard or two, has stirred up a hornet's nest.

The federal regulator indicates it plans to allow the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to take on new powers for inspecting the audits of broker-dealers.

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Schapiro said that the creation of a system for capturing all stock market data in close to real time is likely half as much as the $4 billion originally estimated.