Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The Department of Labor is cracking down on employers who fail to deposit workers’ retirement or health plan contributions but using the money for their own purposes instead.
November 17 -
John Bowman, the acting director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, lashed out Wednesday at the Dodd-Frank Act, arguing it made his agency the scapegoat for the financial crisis and ...
November 17 -
Analysts say growth will stall or slow if upper income households see a tax increase.
November 17 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission would violate the Tower Amendment and the principles of federalism if it applies its proposed rules on asset-backed securities to municipal bonds, 14 market groups warned this week.
November 17 -
Top executives want to reassure lawmakers that foreclosure alternatives are paramount.
November 17 -
But IRS Commissioner says the investigation isnt over and the closed cases so far have averaged more than $200,000 in tax collections per case.
November 16 -
The SEC will vote on raising the threshold for registration from $25 million to $100 million.
November 16 -
In the absence of global resolution rules, a hard-to-pronounce buzzword has crept into the debate on winding down big banks: subsidiarization.
November 16 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission will vote Friday on new registration rules for hedge funds and private equity funds.
November 15 -
The initial reactions among financial services companies to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act have been trepidation and fear.
November 15 -
Considered to be a deal broker and careful listener by those who have worked with him in the past, Joseph Smith won near-universal acclaim as Obama's pick to lead the FHFA.
November 15 -
Just when branch managers thought their jobs couldnt get any more complicated, Mary Schapiro says that her agency is looking at regulating broker pay.
November 12 -
The SEC should rein in the ABA's CUSIP Service Bureau and prevent it from charging financial market participants unreasonable and unwarranted fees, say three trade groups.
November 12 -
In September, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced new standards to raise required common equity ratios to 7% by 2019, and have regulators implement the new capital rules by 2013.
November 11 -
The central bank aims to send an encouraging sign to investors: the economy is stable and the giant banks are safe. It's a gamble with some downsides.
November 11 -
Industry groups are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to reject a proposal from the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board to provide it with an additional $17 million in revenue annually by nearly doubling the amount of transaction fees it collects from dealers.
November 10 -
Nearly half of the nation's chief financial officers and senior controllers polled by global CPA and business advisory firm Grant Thornton say that the U.S. should not adopt international Financial Reporting Standards until after U.S. GAAP and IFRS have converged to the point where the differences are inconsequential - a time frame of between five to seven years.
November 10 -
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has jurisdiction over a wide range of financial products, Elizabeth Warren is making credit cards her top priority.
November 10 -
Sen. Christopher Dodd said the work is far from done in terms of regulatory reform.
November 9 -
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said it fined Goldman, Sachs & Co. $650,000 for failing to disclose that two of its registered representatives had received Wells Notices, which indicate that investigations of operating practices are under way.
November 9