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BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Theo Francis & Mark Scott |
European Regulators Target U.S. Firms New regulatory efforts by European policymakers may put American banks, insurers, and money managers at a competitive disadvantage.  |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 |
Collateral Damage New regulations designed to rein in financial firms may affect companies and investors.  |
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 Vekshin & Kopecki |
Not So Radical Reform How New Democrats and Wall Street are watering down financial regulation in Congress.  |
BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Karen Weise |
Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Could Get Bigger Federal agencies putting mortgage and derivative reforms into force are writing rules that seem to have a big-bank bias.  |
Registered Rep. March 2, 2011 Kristen French |
New Incentive-Based Comp Rules Murky For Financial Advisors It is not clear what this all means for financial advisors and brokers, some of whom get incentive pay in the form of recruiting bonuses that reward them for increasing assets and/or production.  |
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 |
The Federal Dilemma Here's why it will be difficult for the Obama Administration to get banks to boost lending  |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
Quick Take: CEO Compensation Bill Is a No-Brainer Congressman Frank's proposed, shareholder-friendly bill is nothing that other countries aren't already doing.  |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 C. Benson et al. |
Nasdaq's Secret Agent Derivatives Campaign The exchange wants to limit banks' ownership of clearinghouses  |
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 Jessica Silver-Greenberg |
A Green Light for Car Dealers to Rip Off Buyers? Dealers argue that they shouldn't fall under the jurisdiction of the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency because they generally don't provide the money for loans.  |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Francis & Sasseen |
Financial Regulations: What Obama Wants The Administration's proposals for regulating the financial markets are wide-ranging. The question now: Are they tough enough?  |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Matthew Leising |
How Wall Street Gamed Derivatives Reform New legislation likely won't have a major effect on banks that own stakes in trading and clearing firms.  |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Moore & Harper |
Bank Pay Rules Won't Tame Wall Street Experts say proposed pay rules aren't likely to discourage recklessness on Wall Street because holding periods are too short.  |
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett |
Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants.  |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Phil Mattingly |
Are Wall Street Lobbyists Losing Clout in D.C.? A GOP senator's support for a tough derivatives bill suggests President Obama may have momentum for broader regulation overhaul.  |
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 |
Tim Geithner Is Starting to See Daylight Bloomberg TV's Al Hunt talks to the Treasury Secretary about TARP.  |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 |
Wavering Optimism in a Post-Reform World Just when bankers began to think it was safe to come back in the water, midsummer economic indicators began to pull the tide back out again, as demonstrated in the most recent quarterly results from Grant Thornton's 17th Bank Executive Survey.  |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill.  |
U.S. Banker January 2010 |
Noted and Noteworthy It looks like community bankers complaints about excessive regulatory burden haven t completely fallen on deaf ears.  |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Fool Poll: How Should the Senate Vote? Two days after the House of Representatives voted down the proposed financial bailout plan, the Senate will meet this evening to vote on a similar proposal. Similar, but not completely the same.  |
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 Theo Francis |
Washington Swings at Reform In subtle but significant ways, policymakers will change the way Wall Street does business.  |
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs.  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Raghuram Rajan |
Straight Talk Risky Business Even as financial markets evolve, we have to constantly rethink the ways they are regulated and supported by policy, all the while being careful not to snuff out creativity and innovation. Only then will we be able to utilize their true potential.  |
Registered Rep. July 30, 2009 John Churchill |
Pressure to Reign In Executive Compensation Grows New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released a report today on the compensation practices of the banking industry. Top on the list of concerns was the compensation structure at larger banks.  |
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Loder & Mattingly |
Under Siege at The CFTC Congress gave regulators wide discretion to regulate derivatives, causing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to be besieged by lobbyists.  |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Will Regulation Stifle Innovation? Here is the fifth installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.  |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009 Henry et al. |
Credit Creaks into Gear With a big boost from the feds, investors again like securities backed by assets like car loans -- but it'll take years for lending to flow freely.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal.  |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
Will This Stop the Next Financial Armageddon? What key measures in the 2,322-page financial reform bill actually matter, and will they stop the next financial Armageddon?  |
BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 |
Business and the Obama Agenda Proposals from the administration on the economy, financial reform, health care, corporate taxes, and energy and the reaction of business leaders.  |
U.S. Banker July 2009 Andrew Dubinsky |
Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened.  |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 |
Compensation at the Fore In this sampling of bank directors' opinions on the hot topics of the day, we look at issues related to executive compensation.  |
U.S. Banker February 2011 Katie Kuehner-Hebert |
More Say on Pay Bank directors are often bystanders in developing compensation policies, but new guidelines will require them to play a more active role.  |
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking.  |
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Donna Borak |
Dodd-Frank Reforms Inch Along In the first year after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, regulators made some progress implementing the law. Now they have essentially ground to a halt.  |
CFO September 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt |
The Crackdown Continues Congress is working on a bill to give shareholders more say on pay, while companies on their own are reining in excess.  |
U.S. Banker January 2009 Joseph Rosta |
The Industry's New Year's Resolutions Here are five things the banking industry should consider to dig out of this recessionary ditch stronger than before.  |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Dangerous Borrowing Beware of quicksand with credit cards and mortgages. Dangers abound when we borrow. Credit cards, if used suboptimally, can land you a world of trouble, while even mortgages these days are carrying more risks than ever.  |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush |
Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives.  |
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken |
New Regulatory Requirements Require Data On-Demand With a plethora of proposed regulations in the pipeline, financial services firms are facing more strenuous audits and data reporting requirements that could result in penalties if firms get them wrong.  |
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Levisohn & Scott |
The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too.  |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
It's the Same Old Story at Chesapeake Chesapeake's annual meeting didn't change much of anything when it comes to the company's awful pay practices.  |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Sham Gad |
What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess.  |
Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008 Cory Levine |
Reuters Delivers New Derivatives Pricing Service The new offering is part of Reuters' overall strategy to speed up the valuation process for complex instruments.  |
U.S. Banker May 2007 Thomas P. Vartanian |
Crisis and Opportunity In Subprime Mortgage Markets Problems in the subprime mortgage business will inevitably lead to opportunities for those who can evaluate, service or manage the underlying loans, securities and real estate.  |
On Wall Street December 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris |
Broker Pay: The Next Regulatory Target? The federal agency's chairman, Mary Schapiro, said she wants to see rules that encourage "compensation programs that incentivize the right kind of behavior and conduct on the part of the industry," as opposed to short-term risk-taking.  |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Caplinger & Barker |
Who's More to Blame: Derivatives or the Glass-Steagall Repeal? March Stock Madness -- Second Round: Which is bad, and which is worse? And which of these two things is more to blame for the crisis?  |
U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad |
Subprime Mortgages: As the Knot Unravels, A Question Lingers: Why? Consumers and companies following their self-interest are supposed to be guiding forces that drive a capitalist economy. The recent meltdown of the subprime-mortgage market, however, raises the question of whether all participants were headed in that direction.  |
BusinessWeek September 10, 2009 |
Incremental Change The Administration's financial regulation plan is evolutionary, not revolutionary.  |
CFO April 1, 2010 Alix Stuart |
Which Way on Say-on-Pay? How companies plan to hear shareholder opinions on compensation.  |
CFO June 1, 2009 Russ Banham |
Fray on Pay The battle over executive compensation and what it means for you.  |