JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second- biggest U.S. bank by assets, plans to sell 10-year global notes as soon as today after reporting profit rose 76 percent, more than analysts estimated.
The Labor Department today issued much anticipated fee disclosure rules for providers of services to employee pension benefit plans.
After spending the July 4 recess studying the 2,300-page overhaul measure, Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, announced yesterday that they will support the bill.
An important milestone has been reached on the path to the professionalization of financial advice with the inclusion of language in the financial-reform bill which would authorize the SEC to issue rules to extend the fiduciary standard to broker-dealers providing advice to retail clients.
Mike Latham has been named global head of BlackRock's iShares exchange-traded-fund business, a new position, confirmed spokeswoman Bobbie Collins.
Rules by themselves are never an answer.
Despite lack of disclosure by BP about the volume of oil spilling from its well in the Gulf of Mexico, the company's agreement to create a $20 billion fund to pay claims may help BP in defending against any securities-related disclosure claims, according to securities lawyers.
Custody may not be a particularly glamorous business. But Heidi Miller's successful stint at JPMorgan's securities services unit has cleared a path to the top for the Jamie Daimon loyalist.
UBS AG's Luxembourg unit is being probed by prosecutors over allegations of forgery when it oversaw two funds linked to Bernard Madoff.
