regulators

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Alibaba’s Behemoth IPO Making Few Ripples in Washington

11/07/2014(0)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA)’s proposal for what could be the largest initial stock offering in U.S. history is sailing through Washington with few bumps. While a federal commission ... Read More
US-Federal-Reserve-System

Federal Banking Regulators Finalize Joint Supplemental Guidance on Income Tax Allocation Agreements

16/06/2014(0)
U.S. Federal banking regulators issued final supplemental guidance on income tax allocation agreements involving holding companies and insured depository institutions. An aim of the guidance is to reduce confusion ... Read More
ASIAN STOCKS

Dark Pools Take Larger Share of Trades Amid SEC Scrutiny

13/06/2014(0)
The rise of off-exchange trading in the U.S. stock market continues unabated even as regulators question the wisdom of allowing the shift to continue. Shares changing hands in private ... Read More
federal-reserve

Fed may shun global risk rules banks spent billions to meet

04/06/2014(0)
The Federal Reserve may scrap international measures aimed at assessing bank health in favor of imposing its own rules, frustrating bankers who have spent billions of dollars retooling their ... Read More
wall-street-walks

Levine on Wall Street: Wise Rabbits and Philosophical Regulators

28/05/2014(0)
Paul McCulley is back. Pimco’s new chief economist is Paul McCulley, back for his third stint at the firm that he previously left in 1992, returned to in 1999, ... Read More
ASIC_regulator

ASIC to impose licence conditions on two Commonwealth Bank financial planning businesses

16/05/2014(0)
The Australian Securities and Investment Commissions (ASIC) has announced that it will impose, by agreement, licence conditions on the Australian financial services licences of two financial planning businesses owned ... Read More
accounting

Payday Lending: Fixing a broken market

13/05/2014(0)
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has launched a unique report on payday lending looking specifically at its business model. Called Payday lending: fixing a broken market, the ... Read More
Co-operative Bank

Ex-Co-Op Bank Chairman Fined $890 for Having Cocaine, Meth

07/05/2014(0)
Paul Flowers, the former chairman of Co-Operative Bank Plc, was fined 525 pounds ($890) after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine. Flowers, a 63-year-old Methodist ... Read More
barclays

Barclays, Credit Suisse Battle Banker Exodus, Legal Woes

05/05/2014(0)
Barclays Plc (BARC), Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS AG (UBSN) will face questions this week about key banker departures, legal challenges and their efforts to boost profitability. Barclays ... Read More
MoJ

MoJ rules out further reform of legal services regulation

02/05/2014(0)
The government has ruled out immediate further changes to the framework for legal services regulation following the wide-ranging review launched by the Ministry of Justice last June. In a ... Read More
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