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Banking and finance
REGULATION NOT JUST 'TOO LAX OR TOO LENIENT' AHEAD OF CRISIS – STUDY
The search for what went wrong will continue for a very long time. Even if the pressure is off now, for the time being, the scale and scope of the financial crisis in 2007-09 mean we need to think hard about what happened. Much of the blame in popular discussion has been apportioned to greedy banker...
07 August 2010
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Disclosure
EU WORKS TOWARDS PAN-EUROPEAN DISCLOSURE DATABASE
...This work-in-progress is progressing. The Committee of European Securities Regulators has published a report and consultation paper about plans for a pan-European facility to provide access to all the regulatory disclosures made by corporations in the 27-member states. The notion is to create a f...
07 August 2010
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EU financial regulation
MIFID BACK UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
...It's been three years since the European Union introduced the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, known as MiFID, one of the most sweeping pieces of regulation the markets had ever seen. Its provisions meant the end to what was left of the ...hegemony of national stock exchanges..., repla...
07 August 2010
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Exchanges and trading policy
UK MAKES REVERSE TAKEOVERS A LITTLE EASIER
...It's been a longstanding practice on financial markets. When a company wants to get a stock market listing it can go through all the processes from the very beginning, or ...walk around to the back door.... That back door is the reverse takeover. Find a listed company that has pretty much gone ou...
07 August 2010
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Banking and finance
SEC SEEKS VIEWS ON TURNING DODD-FRANK INTO ACTION
The US Securities and Exchange Commission faces a large task – turning more than 2,000 pages of the Dodd-Frank Act on banking and corporate governance into a plan of action. President Obama signed the measure into law following a few, last-minute modifications needs to win over the last few legislat...
31 July 2010
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Credit ratings
A BLIND SYSTEM OF SELECTING RATING AGENCIES?
One of the outcomes of the Dodd-Frank Act on financial reform in the US could be a new method of credit rating. Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, highlighted a facet of the coming regulation with a hint that it will look into a system of selecting ratings firms – the...
31 July 2010
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EU financial regulation
CESR URGES WATCHFULNESS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENT
...It's not exactly comforting to know that even the experts are less than sure what's happening in financial markets. A report from the Committee of European Securities Regulators can't decide whether financial services in the European Union will emerge from the crisis with their traditional split ...
31 July 2010
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Banking and finance
UK WIDENS SCOPE OF PAY LIMIT IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
...It's supposedly just a consultation paper, and it's billed as updating the existing remuneration code, but the Financial Services Authority has set in motion a process that might just transform the financial industry in the UK. The FSA is seeking views on how to adjust the remuneration code in li...
31 July 2010
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Banking and finance
WHAT WENT WRONG? FSA'S TURNER TELLS HIS VERSION
The conference was called the "Future of Finance" but of necessity much of the discussion was of the recent past. Lord Turner, chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority, came to discuss the themes of a chapter he wrote for the book launched at the conference. In it Turner argues there are five...
17 July 2010
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Credit ratings
FRANCE TAKES AIM AT RATINGS ISSUES IN STUDY
...The French securities regulator AMF thinks that European investors are putting too much faith in the credit ratings industry. It has published a study of the ratings business during 2009, watching performance of the industry and the instruments rated during the weak economic conditions. The ratin...
17 July 2010
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