The U.S. government’s $787 billion stimulus package offers ripe opportunities for fraud, according to criminal experts.
Legislation approved Wednesday by the House of Representatives that would limit bonuses at government-aided firms may lead more wirehouse brokers to become independent investment advisers, said an attorney who specializes in helping breakaway brokers start their own advisory firms.
In one of the single largest securities arbitration awards ever, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. has been ordered pay $39.8 million to a group affiliated with the Freemasons.
Two congressmen think that a new consumer watchdog agency is needed in the wake of the financial crisis.
The Obama administration today unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financial system designed to impose greater regulation on major players like hedge funds.
The Federal Reserve's chairman and the secretary of the treasury are making a rare joint appearance at a congressional hearing, to take a scolding over AIG.
The Obama administration launched a new effort Monday to end a paralysis in lending, saying it will team with investors to sop up a half-trillion dollars of bad assets from banks that have been reluctant to make loans to consumers and companies.
Arguing that they can do more than federal agencies with less, state securities regulators today asked Congress to consider giving federal grants to state securities divisions.
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram said yesterday that her office is spearheading an investigation into the bonuses paid to workers’ at American International Group Inc.’s financial-products unit.
A bill has been introduced in the House that would impose stricter rules on how credit card companies set interest rates and charge fees to consumers.
Companies receiving taxpayer funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program would be subject to major taxes on executive bonuses under a proposal unveiled Tuesday.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley suggested that AIG executives should accept responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves.
Congress should enact legislation mandating that all investment advisers and money managers come under fiduciary standards, John Bogle, founder and former chief executive of The Vanguard Group Inc. of Malvern, Pa., said today.
A Seattle man has filed suit against his financial adviser for failing to conduct appropriate due diligence and for investing his money with Tremont Group Holdings Inc. of Rye, N.Y., that placed funds with convicted swindler Bernard Madoff.
A systemic regulator for the country’s economy and financial system is likely to be put in place by the Obama administration.
Thousands of anxious clients with accounts in companies controlled by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running an $8 billion fraud scheme, received long-awaited good news from a federal judge in Dallas yesterday.
Advisers are agitated by the SEC’s decision to expand its examinations of advisory firms to include contact with clients.
Suspending mark-to-market accounting would improve the credit system, Robert Reynolds, chief executive of Putnam Investments, said today.
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to an epic fraud that robbed investors worldwide of billions of dollars, avoiding eye contact with swindled investors before he was led out of court with his hands cuffed behind his back.
The official in charge of the Treasury's $700 billion bailout program for the financial sector warns Congress that the government should not force banks to make loans that bankers may deem risky.
