Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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Outgoing House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sharply criticized incoming chairman Rep. Spencer Bachus on Wednesday, ridiculing the Alabama Republican for reportedly saying "Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks."
December 16 -
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has censured Citigroup Global Markets after finding the financial services firm failed to report transactions promptly to its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine.
December 16 -
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has censured Citigroup Global Markets after finding the financial services firm failed to report transactions promptly to its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine.
December 15 -
On the same day it proposed new capital requirements for all institutions, the FDIC's board of directors approved a 2011 agency budget of $3.96B, a 0.7% drop from the previous year.
December 15 -
The Bush tax cut and unemployment benefit extension legislation passed a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Monday, overcoming the 60-vote threshold needed to come up for a vote later in the week.
December 14 -
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.
December 14 -
U.S. proxy advisory firms are now caught in the middle of a heated debate over how-and even whether-they should be regulated.
December 13 -
Former President Bill Clinton stood alongside President Barack Obama at a news conference and endorsed Obamas deal with congressional Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and unemployment benefits.
December 13 -
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.
December 10 -
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.
December 10 -
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.
December 10 -
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.
December 10 -
The online discussion about whether, in our fiduciary debate, we should have one standard or two, has stirred up a hornet's nest.
December 9 -
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.
December 9 -
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.
December 9 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission said its investigation exposed "egregious" conduct in municipal investing.
December 8 -
Rep. Spencer Bachus was formally selected by the Republican Steering Committee on Tuesday to serve as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee next year.
December 8 -
Far from being partners, observers said Rep. Barney Frank and whoever the GOP picks to succeed him as Financial Services Committee chairman are likely to be at loggerheads.
December 7 -
Says it creates a more bureaucratic government, rather than a nimble, forward-looking one.
December 6 -
The trustee seeking to recover funds lost in the Bernard Madoff securities fraud Sunday sought $9 billion from international banking firm HSBC, in a bankruptcy court complaint.
December 6