When it comes to slimming budgetary excesses, Americans apparently don't subscribe to 'no pain, no gain'
U.S. financial regulators, working to secure funding needed to implement new responsibilities mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, are in line to be among the few agencies to benefit from the year's final congressional spending measure.
Who will be the movers and shakers affecting the financial services industry in 2011?
A leader of Republican efforts to cut government spending and tackle the federal deficit indicated Thursday that he embraces the idea of cutting so-called tax expenditures.
BAM Advisor Services LLC, a turnkey asset management program, announced today that it is buying Advisors Access, a provider of 401(k) plans, from Capital Directions LLC, an advisory firm.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is revamping how it scans for abuses such as insider trading, responding to increased fragmentation of markets, Chief Executive Officer Richard Ketchum said today.
Client 360 has been officially reborn.
Scuttling the Administration's tax proposal would hit average Americans squarely in the wallet; the fate of refundables?
The Securities and Exchange Commission budget would receive a significant boost under a bill proposed on Tuesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Despite grousing from the left, it looks as if Republicans will get pretty much what they want on estate tax policy — if, as expected, Congress approves a bill that would extend all Bush-era tax cuts for two years
Legislation that would extend for two years Bush administration tax cuts for all income levels cleared a Senate hurdle today.
Advocates of a universal fiduciary standard of care for all advisers and brokers are hoping that the recent insider trading probe will help their cause.
Regulations may prohibit reps, providers from competing in the lucrative market
Two former Wachovia Securities brokers tricked dozens of mostly elderly clients into investing in what were supposed to be can't-miss opportunities, only to lose roughly $8 million, according to a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
House Democrats may try to amend the estate tax provision of a bill that would extend Bush administration tax cuts for all income levels after the Senate acts on the measure early this week.
Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission are considering setting limits on computer-trading algorithms — and may choose to require broker-dealers to monitor their orders — in the wake of the May 6 flash crash.
