Regulation

The securities industry regulator fined a Zions Bancorp unit $225,000 for failing to disclose a potential conflict of interest in online auctions for certificates of deposit.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has given money market funds a reprieve from following an amendment to money market fund regulations requiring allowing them to approve of the credit rating agencies they must use to determine whether a security is eligible for investment.

Wyser-Pratte Management, a New York-based fund manager and corporate raider, claims Broadridge Financial Solutions and French media giant Lagardere may have lost shares voted in favor of its proposals during an April proxy contest.

One of the Obama administration’s priorities is to get Congress to extend the Build America Bond program and federal officials are convinced BABs will remain a “vibrant market” even if the federal subsidy rate is reduced from its current 35% level, a Treasury Department official said ­Monday.

In the Senate for decades, Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd found passing regulatory reform to be one of his toughest challenges. In an extensive interview, he relives key moments, responds to criticism of the bill, and reflects on his own disappointments with the final law.

An overwhelming majority of Build America Bond subsidy payments have been paid in full to BAB issuers, suggesting that concerns about offsets are dramatically overblown, according to new data on state issuers compiled by the IRS.

A day after New Jersey settled securities fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose to bond investors that it was underfunding its two largest pension plans, offering documents for the state's record $2.25 billion short-term tax and revenue anticipation note deal included several pages of disclosures about the woefully underfunded retirement plans.

The Congressional Budget Office Thursday upped the estimated cost of the Build America Bond program by $10 billion to $36 billion over 10 years in its new estimates on the fiscal 2010 budget deficit and economic outlook.

The Federal Reserve Board, the sole bank holding company regulator for decades, is about to experience a pretty new concept: a teammate.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to make a decision on whether it will update a roughly 30-year old set of proxy and investor shareholder rules at a meeting next Wednesday.