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11/13/2018
Phyllis Borzi, a former US Labor Department official who played a key role in drafting the now-vacated fiduciary standard, is -More- ……
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11/13/2018
Exchange-traded funds that employ the leverage of derivatives to improve performance run the risk of harming the reputation o -More- ……
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11/13/2018
The European Commission’s proposal to monitor financial-stability risk from clearinghouses outside the EU is not at odds with -More- ……
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11/13/2018
The US Labor Department is proposing a rule that would make it easy for workers to move 401(k)s and IRAs when they change job -More- ……
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11/13/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants firms to give more details when sharing potential consequences of a “hard Brexit -More- ……
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11/13/2018
President Donald Trump is expected to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security soon and re -More- ……
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11/13/2018
EU lawmakers are discussing legislation that would limit regulatory orders the European Central Bank issues to derivatives cl -More- ……
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11/13/2018
The Italian government is expected to present a redrafted budget today to the European Commission after being told the last p -More- ……
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11/12/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission will conduct a roundtable discussion of corporate democracy rules at its headquarters -More- ……
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11/12/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations will conduct a series of exams put -More- ……
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11/12/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s proposed amendments to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation to help -More- ……
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11/12/2018
The US Federal Reserve’s inaugural Supervision and Regulation Report found that more than 40% of large US banks failed to “me -More- ……
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11/12/2018
Future European regulatory changes, including revision of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II or introduction of Mi -More- ……
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11/12/2018
The UK and Hong Kong are in talks to develop their trade links, a British minister visiting the territory said. -More- ……
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11/12/2018
A 12-member committee that advises the US Federal Reserve criticized a provision in the central bank’s proposal to simplify t -More- ……
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11/12/2018
The Federal Reserve is considering broader changes “in the not-too distant future” to ease bank stress tests, including makin -More- ……
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11/09/2018
The Bank of England is working with the Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority to conduct a test today of the financial -More- ……
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11/09/2018
UK regulators have told banks additional capital requirements on Libor-related contracts are possible. -More- ……
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11/09/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority said European companies should be given a 12-month period to replace derivative -More- ……
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11/09/2018
Financial firms’ in-house legal teams are scrambling to keep up with paperwork to respond simultaneously to demands of Brexit -More- ……
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11/08/2018
A British Cabinet meeting aimed at moving closer to final agreement on Brexit has been postponed after a dispute arose over w -More- ……
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11/08/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee said the commission should improve -More- ……
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11/08/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission should revise Regulation Best Interest, meant for investment advice, to clearly state -More- ……
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11/08/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has tested the proposed Form Customer Relationship Summary to determine whether it is -More- ……
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11/07/2018
The European Banking Authority plans to move to the La Defense business quarter in Paris from Canary Wharf in London. -More- ……
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11/07/2018
UK officials have committed to actions next year to regulate cryptoassets. -More- ……
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11/07/2018
Tough market conditions because of tapering of quantitative easing, a strong US dollar and high US Treasury yields decreased -More- ……
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11/07/2018
Wind-down of European Central Bank bond buying is expected to have little impact on German bond prices, because supply remain -More- ……
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11/07/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is changing its electronic reporting system to accommodate the Securities and Exc -More- ……
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11/07/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is among 22 self-regulatory entities working to comply with the Nov. -More- ……
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11/07/2018
Financiers in London don’t want Brexit negotiators to agree to a basic equivalence regime for financial services with the EU, -More- ……
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11/06/2018
The Federal Reserve’s “stress capital buffer” proposal to simplify the way capital requirements are established is a “positiv -More- ……
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11/06/2018
Eurozone finance ministers have backed the European Commission’s decision to reject Italy’s draft budget and have urged the c -More- ……
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11/06/2018
Italy’s Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority, is closing in on Sharon Donnery, deputy governor of Ireland -More- ……
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11/06/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has revised rules to require broker-dealers to disclose more information to clients ab -More- ……
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11/05/2018
Central banks are exploring use of distributed-ledger technology to help payment systems recuperate from cyberattacks and to -More- ……
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11/05/2018
A European Banking Authority stress test of 48 banks shows the common equity Tier 1 ratio of capital needed to withstand a hy -More- ……
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11/05/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission initiated 821 enforcement actions in fiscal 2018, up from 754 in fiscal 2017. -More- ……
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11/05/2018
Earnings from European equity research are plunging under the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, with small -More- ……
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11/02/2018
EU lawmakers might change the draft Investment Firms Regulation to remove implication that EU companies should ignore capital -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The Federal Reserve is expected to soon call for easing of requirements imposed on foreign banks that do business in the US, -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has unveiled cryptocurrency regulations for investment funds and trading plat -More- ……
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11/02/2018
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said the Monetary Policy Committee is ready to adjust interest-rate policy in either dir -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee has asked the SEC to “strengthen and clarify” language i -More- ……
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11/02/2018
Germany is eyeing risk from post-Brexit euro clearing and regulatory challenges posed. -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The UK National Crime Agency has begun a criminal investigation into activities of Arron Banks, founder of Leave.EU, the camp -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The European Banking Authority will release results of the latest stress test for 48 banks Friday. -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The UK needs more than the European Commission’s assurances that EU financial firms won’t lose access to London clearinghouse -More- ……
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11/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is working to finish proposed rules governing investment advice by September, possibly -More- ……
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11/01/2018
Regions including the US, the EU and Japan have failed to adopt capital and liquidity standards issued by the Basel Committee -More- ……
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11/01/2018
Proprietary traders are concerned proposed group capital rules and a tougher approach to equivalence in the EU could be appli -More- ……
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11/01/2018
Italy’s troubled banking sector is expected to be a focal point when the European Banking Authority publishes stress test res -More- ……
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11/01/2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU have struck a tentative deal that gives UK financial-services firms access to E -More- ……
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11/01/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules to improve disclosure for consumers considering buying variable ann -More- ……
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11/01/2018
The EU needs a distinct anti-money-laundering authority that can impose major fines to combat misconduct across the bloc, Bel -More- ……
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10/31/2018
The Italian government has auctioned €5.5 billion in five- and 10-year debt, despite GDP data showing the economy had ha -More- ……
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10/31/2018
A committee backed by the Federal Reserve will request public comment early next year on language for contracts that referenc -More- ……
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10/31/2018
A Fidelity Investments survey has found advisers’ awareness of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s best-interest proposa -More- ……
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10/31/2018
An 11-country Pacific trade agreement will take effect at the end of December and trigger the first round of tariff cuts, sai -More- ……
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10/31/2018
The EU is investigating whether the proposed merger of the steel-making businesses of India’s Tata Group and Germany’s Thysse -More- ……
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10/30/2018
US derivatives regulators could soon impose tougher rules on EU clearinghouses, according to an analysis by European Commissi -More- ……
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10/30/2018
Investors rattled by equity-market volatility and uncertainty about interest-rate increases are putting money into short-term -More- ……
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10/30/2018
The UK government’s remaining stake in Royal Bank of Scotland will be sold by the end of the 2023-2024 tax year, according to -More- ……
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10/30/2018
Institutional investors have praised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of requests by Nasdaq and the New Yor -More- ……
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10/29/2018
Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro the victor in the country’s presidential el -More- ……
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10/29/2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union won the key regional election in the state of Hesse, giving Merk -More- ……
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10/29/2018
Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, said it is on course to handle any Brexit outcome and -More- ……
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10/29/2018
European regulators’ failure to issue any clear guidance on cross-border activities after Brexit could be a ploy to sway UK f -More- ……
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10/29/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Rostin Behnam expressed reservations about some of Chairman J. -More- ……
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10/26/2018
Nasdaq Stock Market and NYSE Arca want a US court to overturn the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of their req -More- ……
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10/26/2018
Proposed changes to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book that would restrict b -More- ……
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10/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s guidance on cyberdisclosure “falls short of providing useful and reliable disclosure -More- ……
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10/26/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has proposed rules for departing employees aimed at prohibiting post-employment c -More- ……
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10/26/2018
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reached out to Japan to deepen trading links and to reduce tensions between the nations ahead of J -More- ……
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10/25/2018
The Bank for International Settlements plans to review capital rules in hopes of improving an accounting standard intended to -More- ……
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10/25/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission does not plan to release a study on how market quality and pricing are affected by use -More- ……
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10/25/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority will talk with polling industry representatives to explore whether it should regulate priv -More- ……
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10/24/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission should focus on disclosure of information “relevant to today’s investors,” rather than -More- ……
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10/24/2018
The UK Treasury has published draft regulations to ensure the derivatives market continues to operate smoothly after Brexit. -More- ……
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10/24/2018
Companies, investors and capital markets are being harmed by abuses permitted by laws governing securities class-action lawsu -More- ……
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10/24/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s proposal to overhaul cross-border rules has received support from the Australian S -More- ……
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10/23/2018
The Labor Department proposed a rule that would increase the use of multiple employer retirement plans by allowing more types -More- ……
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10/23/2018
Italian Economy and Finance Minister Giovanni Tria has told the European Commission his country’s spending proposal neither b -More- ……
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10/23/2018
Progress achieved from post-crisis Group of 20 changes is vulnerable to “three lies of finance” that could add risk to the fi -More- ……
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10/23/2018
Japan’s central bank and Financial Services Agency say a US proposal to relax the Volcker rule for foreign banks would not do -More- ……
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10/22/2018
The first step in creating international standards for cryptocurrency oversight could come when the Financial Action Task For -More- ……
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10/22/2018
The US dollar Libor might still be used after a planned phaseout in 2021 but likely will be gone by 2025 because the benchmar -More- ……
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10/22/2018
Jair Bolsonaro, the conservative candidate for president of Brazil, has increased his lead over leftist opponent Fernando Had -More- ……
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10/22/2018
Sharon Donnery might succeed Daniele Nouy as the European Central Bank’s banking supervisor if she survives questioning from -More- ……
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10/22/2018
The IRS has proposed rules for investment in opportunity zones, economically depressed areas that can qualify for special tax -More- ……
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10/22/2018
Scams that use “spoofed or manipulated electronic communications” increasingly are a problem for businesses, according to a r -More- ……
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10/19/2018
The US Labor Department will release an updated fiduciary rule in September. -More- ……
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10/19/2018
Only 39% of German voters support the coalition government headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, a record low, according to a s -More- ……
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10/19/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has introduced the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, a portal tha -More- ……
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10/19/2018
The final rule on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s advice-standards package for firms and investment advisers will be -More- ……
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10/19/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission says it has been unable to get the EU to explain how the definition of “systemic ris -More- ……
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10/18/2018
China has formed the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission to work with the People’s Bank of China to draft rules -More- ……
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10/18/2018
The Benchmarks Task Force has been formed to provide clarity and to help with administrative challenges in adoption of Intern -More- ……
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10/18/2018
Many retail investors lack the financial literacy to understand distinctions between broker-dealers and investment advisers, -More- ……
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10/18/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Brian Quintenz said code developers involved with smart contracts or similar bloc -More- ……
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10/18/2018
Jon Cunliffe, deputy governor for financial stability at the Bank of England, has urged the EU to help prevent disruption to -More- ……
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10/18/2018
The US Treasury Department again does not accuse China of currency manipulation in a semiannual report on foreign exchange pr -More- ……
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10/18/2018
Prudential Financial has persuaded the US Financial Stability Oversight Council to lift its designation as a systemically imp -More- ……
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10/18/2018
The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw the US from the 144-year-old Universal Postal Union, which coordinates post -More- ……
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10/18/2018
The proposed Regulation Best Interest for brokers would ease the challenge of pursuing enforcement actions against brokers wh -More- ……
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10/17/2018
Kara Stein, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said that to protect investors, Congress might have to change -More- ……
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10/17/2018
Investigations of nine public companies reveal many fail to adequately review and update accounting controls to protect again -More- ……
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10/17/2018
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde has pulled out of Saudi Arabia’s Future investment Initiative -More- ……
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10/17/2018
Investors fear the EU Benchmarks Regulation will stifle product innovation and growth by limiting the choice of reference int -More- ……
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10/17/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted unanimously to deny requests from the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to -More- ……
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10/17/2018
Speed bumps and randomization to level the playing field against increased trading speeds need to be implemented correctly to -More- ……
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10/17/2018
Federal and state regulators in the US are stepping up a fight against cryptocurrency fraud, but they expect cryptocurrency s -More- ……
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10/16/2018
Financial firms in more than a half-dozen jurisdictions are participating in cryptoasset markets, but the size of investments -More- ……
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10/16/2018
Central banks in the EU and the US aim to keep inflation under control but face pressure from governments to loosen monetary -More- ……
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10/16/2018
Disney has submitted concessions to assuage antitrust concerns in the EU regarding a $71.3 billion offer for entertainment as -More- ……
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10/16/2018
US businesses attending a trade event next month in Shanghai are expected to seek clear signs that China is willing to open u -More- ……
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10/16/2018
The Federal Trade Commission and Qualcomm have submitted a joint filing to a US judge asking to delay a preliminary ruling on -More- ……
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10/16/2018
Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act 3.0, which would remove obstacles to capital formation and would cut costs for small comp -More- ……
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10/16/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission says in a no-action letter boards of mutual funds can rely on reports from chief compl -More- ……
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10/16/2018
The North American Securities Administrators Association warns investors to practice caution with marijuana-related crowdfund -More- ……
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10/16/2018
The Italian government has delivered a last-minute budget to the European Commission for review. -More- ……
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10/15/2018
Federal Reserve regulatory chief Randal Quarles has signaled to the Senate banking committee that foreign banking organizatio -More- ……
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10/15/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is developing standards of conduct to guide financial professionals who advise clients -More- ……
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10/15/2018
A group of institutional investors and asset managers have petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to make uniform -More- ……
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10/15/2018
The European Parliament might delay for two years a ban on using the Euro Overnight Index Average and the Euro Interbank Offe -More- ……
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10/15/2018
Enforcement actions taken by US state securities regulators in 2017 led to 1,985 years of prison time and probation, 47% high -More- ……
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10/15/2018
Europe should keep options open and not automatically follow the Federal Reserve’s lead in ceasing asset purchases, Bank of F -More- ……
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10/15/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has released a consultation for a “hard Brexit” that proposes the regulator take responsib -More- ……
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10/12/2018
The European Central Bank is optimistic bond buying will end this year, because inflation is expected to steady. -More- ……
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10/12/2018
The EU should establish a standard template for banks, insurers and publicly traded companies to use when reporting nonfinanc -More- ……
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10/12/2018
National regulators in the EU are taking a hard line with UK proprietary-trading firms wanting to relocate to the bloc to red -More- ……
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10/12/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission member Kara Stein has denounced the regulator’s proposal to establish capital and margin r -More- ……
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10/12/2018
Two months after President Donald Trump instructed the Securities and Exchange Commission to study reducing the frequency of -More- ……
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10/11/2018
Enforcement of new restrictions on foreign investment in key US industries will begin in November, the Treasury Department sa -More- ……
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10/11/2018
US state securities regulators’ enforcement actions against unregistered advisers shot up 24% last year, compared with 9% for -More- ……
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10/11/2018
John Glen, economic secretary to the UK Treasury, said he is confident the “deep dialogue” between UK and EU officials will p -More- ……
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10/11/2018
A turf war among EU states regarding the European Securities and Markets Authority’s role in regulation of central counterpar -More- ……
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10/11/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is responding to the suspension of hundreds of penny stock trades by reviewing whether -More- ……
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10/10/2018
The European Court of Auditors said the EU’s asylum agency made €7.7 million in payments last year that failed to comply -More- ……
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10/10/2018
Banks aren’t discouraged from making mortgage loans because of oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, accordi -More- ……
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10/10/2018
The Pakistani rupee lost over 10% against the US dollar Tuesday after the government unveiled a plan to seek a bailout from t -More- ……
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10/10/2018
A competition regulator will review the UK’s audit sector after the collapse of construction giant Carillion this year. -More- ……
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10/10/2018
The EU must act quickly to protect against threats to 41 trillion in derivatives, as well as insurance contracts and data tr -More- ……
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10/09/2018
The European Central Bank is setting out to close a loophole that banks were counting on to minimize disruption to trading op -More- ……
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10/09/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision will focus on the practice of “window dressing” in which banks game global leverag -More- ……
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10/09/2018
The European Central Bank might have to reconsider the timing of an interest-rate increase in early 2019 depending on how the -More- ……
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10/09/2018
European banks could lose access to UK derivatives clearinghouses in a no-deal Brexit, and the Association for Financial Mark -More- ……
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10/08/2018
Outsourcing of technology functions, such as cybersecurity and data storage, is subject to scrutiny by the International Orga -More- ……
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10/08/2018
Forty-six percent of votes in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election went to Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right lawmaker -More- ……
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10/08/2018
The International Monetary Fund will hold its annual meeting this week in Bali, Indonesia, and officials will discuss issues -More- ……
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10/08/2018
The North American Securities Administrators Association is ahead of US federal regulators in support of a formal cybersecuri -More- ……
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10/08/2018
The North American Securities Administrators Association is warning broker-dealers about the importance of adopting policies -More- ……
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10/05/2018
Fresh off implementing the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, EU firms now face the Securities Financing Transact -More- ……
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10/05/2018
European Central Bank Supervisory Board Chairwoman Daniele Nouy has asked the European Parliament for more power to harmonize -More- ……
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10/05/2018
The Federal Reserve will propose a rule this year to simplify stress tests for regional banks and to reduce their frequency, -More- ……
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10/05/2018
US regulators plan to reconsider prohibition of fully autonomous vehicles from the road unless they have equipment such as mi -More- ……
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10/05/2018
US tariffs on Chinese goods and blockage of exports of sensitive technology could speed up a drive to modernize the Chinese e -More- ……
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10/05/2018
UK Financial Conduct Authority CEO Andrew Bailey has welcomed the European Securities and Markets Authority’s call for EU-UK -More- ……
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10/05/2018
A provision in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement, creates a major hurdle -More- ……
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10/05/2018
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority proposal to ease the responsibility of brokerages to oversee work performed outside -More- ……
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10/04/2018
In 2017, the number of investment advisers who registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time incr -More- ……
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10/04/2018
Potential cyberattacks targeting the financial sector top the list of threats confronting US financial stability, said Federa -More- ……
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10/03/2018
A decrease in fines imposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in 2017 does not reflect a softened approach to re -More- ……
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10/03/2018
A clause in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement effectively ends the possibility of a free trade accord between China and Canada. -More- ……
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10/03/2018
Before the end of 2019, the Federal Reserve is likely to propose a rule to scale back requirements for living wills of region -More- ……
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10/03/2018
The UK’s departure from the EU should not trigger a regulatory “race to the bottom,” Financial Conduct Authority Chairman Cha -More- ……
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10/03/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission should standardize disclosure of environmental, social and governance information by p -More- ……
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10/03/2018
European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos wants a more cohesive approach to money laundering rules throughout the -More- ……
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10/03/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority might kill its suitability rule if the Securities and Exchange Commission adopts -More- ……
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10/03/2018
European Central Bank economists have recommended prudential regulators consider a system of averaging to prevent global syst -More- ……
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10/02/2018
The German government has come up with a deal that it says protects air quality while allowing diesel-powered cars to remain -More- ……
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10/02/2018
Eurozone officials sharply criticized Italy’s proposed budgetary course, which is up for approval by the European Commission -More- ……
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10/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering creating a variable-annuity prospectus that makes it easier for invest -More- ……
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10/02/2018
The EU has decided to allow the US and the UK to join in some military projects under its permanent structured cooperation pr -More- ……
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10/01/2018
Some German banks have been “acting very aggressively” and “loosening their lending standards,” Bafin President Felix Hufeld -More- ……
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10/01/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission member Kara Stein asked Chairman Jay Clayton to broaden the applicability of the SEC rule -More- ……
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10/01/2018
The risk of a no-deal Brexit has forced EU banks to consider closing their derivative positions in the UK for fear they will -More- ……
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10/01/2018
The Justice Department is suing California to prevent it from reimposing Obama-era net neutrality rules adopted by the Federa -More- ……
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10/01/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority extended the restrictions on contracts for differences offerings to retail clie -More- ……
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10/01/2018
Attorneys general of 16 states have filed a brief in US District Court in the District of Columbia opposing a lawsuit that ar -More- ……
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9/28/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering a proposal that would prohibit foreign exchange futures brokerages fr -More- ……
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9/28/2018
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said policymakers need more high-quality data and tools to regulate investment f -More- ……
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9/28/2018
The Trump administration will publish terms of a North American Free Trade Agreement deal with Mexico on Friday, sources say. -More- ……
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9/28/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission likely will issue the proposed Regulation Best Interest in 2019, with implementation i -More- ……
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9/27/2018
The IRS is considering changes to rules for tax-free spinoffs. -More- ……
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9/27/2018
A US judge has ruled cryptocurrencies meet the Commodity Exchange Act’s definition of a commodity, giving the Commodity Futur -More- ……
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9/27/2018
The UK is facing a dilemma regarding the right approach to financial rulemaking after Brexit, says Nicky Morgan, chairwoman o -More- ……
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9/26/2018
Restitution orders by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority totaled $4.9 million during the first half of this year, a -More- ……
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9/26/2018
The International Regulatory Strategy Group wants the British government, financial sector and regulators to take a coordinat -More- ……
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9/26/2018
The UK might not see a regulatory breakdown if a no-deal Brexit occurs because its regulatory framework is aligned with that -More- ……
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9/26/2018
The US Labor Department is proposing to make it easier for employers to band together and offer multiple-employer retirement -More- ……
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9/26/2018
A panel of banks wants the European Commission to postpone the switch from the Euro Overnight Index Average and the Euro Inte -More- ……
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9/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s corporate-disclosure database had inadequate controls and governance when it was hac -More- ……
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9/25/2018
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9/24/2018
There’s no deadline for completion of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule governing investment advice, Cha -More- ……
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9/24/2018
European and Japanese insurance organizations said in letters to the Financial Stability Board that accounting rules enacted -More- ……
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9/24/2018
Central bankers will be unable to head off another crisis in financial markets because they have exhausted the twin policy re -More- ……
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9/24/2018
Premier Li Keqiang says China will cut nontariff barriers to trade faced by foreign firms in response to US tariffs on an add -More- ……
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9/21/2018
Critics of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s partial restrictions on binary options trading say the regulator s -More- ……
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9/21/2018
US House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said the IRS should revise guidance clarifying taxpayers’ obligations -More- ……
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9/20/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to hear from a wide range of market participants at a roundtable on protecting r -More- ……
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9/20/2018
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has called for a fiscal tool that complements monetary policy in the eurozone to -More- ……
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9/20/2018
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9/19/2018
US and Canadian officials have expressed frustration about failure to finish renegotiation of the North American Free Trade A -More- ……
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9/19/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has withdrawn two no-action letters that authorized investment advisers’ reliance on p -More- ……
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9/19/2018
The UK Parliament’s Treasury Committee has called for the Financial Conduct Authority to better guard investors against crypt -More- ……
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9/19/2018
The debt of companies, governments and households worldwide exceeds levels before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, says Hyun -More- ……
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9/19/2018
European Central Bank policymaker and Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau urges agreement on a backstop for a -More- ……
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9/19/2018
The US Justice Department is looking into statements by Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was thinking of taking the company privat -More- ……
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9/18/2018
Rule changes proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to its whistleblower program are anti-whistleblower and large -More- ……
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9/18/2018
A Financial Stability Board evaluation of banks’ capital rules enacted in response to the financial crisis doesn’t adequately -More- ……
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9/18/2018
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has administered the oath of office to Richard Clarida to become vice chairman. -More- ……
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9/18/2018
Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority, says banks must be allowed to continue back-to-back trading after B -More- ……
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9/18/2018
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said she will return to Washington for North American Free Trade Agreemen -More- ……
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9/18/2018
The Indian government plans to merge state-owned Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank as it tries to get nonperforming l -More- ……
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9/18/2018
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, President Xi Jinping’s leading economic adviser, has met with pro-change economists, signaling t -More- ……
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9/17/2018
Custodians and buy-side firms face a challenge during the next two years to renegotiate contracts and to implement know-your- -More- ……
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9/17/2018
The Financial Stability Board should reconsider a conclusion that Basel III has not negatively affected infrastructure financ -More- ……
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9/17/2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in proposing intensified measures to limit the -More- ……
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9/17/2018
US asset managers and banks say Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive largely hasn’t hindered access to -More- ……
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9/17/2018
The European Central Bank does not plan to issue a digital currency because the technology is not yet robust, President Mario -More- ……
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9/14/2018
The European Central Bank says the benchmark interest rate will remain unchanged through summer 2019 the earliest. -More- ……
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9/14/2018
The House Financial Services Committee has voted 36-16 to advance a bill that would relax requirements for audits of small br -More- ……
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9/14/2018
The Education Department was wrong to postpone implementation of a rule to help students obtain debt forgiveness if a college -More- ……
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9/14/2018
The British government has made public a list of technical notices advising businesses and individuals what to do if the UK l -More- ……
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9/13/2018
A Federal Reserve study recommends a system for measuring systemic risk within a bank and across the banking sector that is l -More- ……
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9/13/2018
The European Commission has proposed elimination of seasonal clock changes no later than October 2019. -More- ……
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9/13/2018
An early version of a summary form for adviser-customer relationships as proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission i -More- ……
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9/12/2018
US District Judge Raymond Dearie has ruled in a criminal case an initial coin offering may be a security governed by federal -More- ……
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9/12/2018
Resolution rules for central counterparties have stalled amid disagreement on whether the European Securities and Markets Aut -More- ……
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9/12/2018
Mark Carney has agreed to remain governor of the Bank of England through January 2020 to guide the UK economy through the imm -More- ……
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9/12/2018
The Federal Reserve should incorporate legal entity identifiers when it rolls out a new type of message for fund transfers be -More- ……
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9/12/2018
TokenLot and its owners have agreed to pay more than $500,000 to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of acting -More- ……
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9/11/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed changing the schedule for auditing exams of futures brokers’ customer-f -More- ……
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9/11/2018
Countries around the world are setting up information-sharing partnerships to fight money laundering and terrorism financing, -More- ……
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9/11/2018
European companies are taking concrete steps to address the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. -More- ……
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9/11/2018
The European Parliament’s environment committee has voted in favor of imposing 45% reductions in cars’ and vans’ 2021 carbon -More- ……
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9/10/2018
US agencies’ operations and Americans’ personal information are at risk because the government fails to defend sufficiently a -More- ……
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9/10/2018
A cybersecurity glossary under development by the Financial Stability Board should embrace terms used by the International Or -More- ……
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9/10/2018
US bankers have been invited to a meeting with Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan and other officials Sunday in Beijing, sour -More- ……
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9/10/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book should allow trades affected by a transit -More- ……
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9/07/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has warned it will take punitive action if auditors do not properly check how financial fi -More- ……
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9/07/2018
A regulatory investigation by Spain into alleged cartel activities is raising questions about a merger between France’s Alsto -More- ……
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9/07/2018
The Bank of England’s proposal that public bail-in funds support default of a central counterparty has raised concerns London -More- ……
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9/06/2018
Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority, has voiced support for creation of a Europe-wide body to ensure imp -More- ……
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9/06/2018
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has dropped a suggestion Italy might defy an EU deficit restriction of 3% of GDP -More- ……
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9/06/2018
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9/06/2018
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9/05/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has proposed raising position limits for several of the most frequently traded op -More- ……
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9/05/2018
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has confirmed he and the government have discussed extending his tenure past June. -More- ……
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9/05/2018
Changes in markets and technology since the financial crisis mean new kinds of data must be collected to ensure readiness for -More- ……
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9/05/2018
Central bankers from Finland, France, Lithuania and Spain have urged European peers to proceed with long-delayed establishmen -More- ……
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9/04/2018
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would support a vote on giving Catalonia greater autonomy, but he rejected a ref -More- ……
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9/04/2018
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8/31/2018
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8/31/2018
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation said in a letter to the Financial Stability Board legal entity identifiers shou -More- ……
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8/31/2018
President Donald Trump is eager to put into effect tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, sources said. -More- ……
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8/31/2018
German financial regulator BaFin might enact emergency, “temporary fixes to avoid chaos” if a no-deal Brexit occurs, BaFin Pr -More- ……
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8/31/2018
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8/30/2018
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8/30/2018
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8/30/2018
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8/30/2018
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8/30/2018
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8/29/2018
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8/29/2018
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8/29/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is offering rehearings to respondents in about 130 enforcement cases because the US Su -More- ……
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8/29/2018
German banks are cashing in on a rule change that has lowered debt costs and has let them issue cheap senior preferred bonds. -More- ……
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8/29/2018
Erkki Liikanen, former governor of the Finnish central bank, has become the most likely successor to Mario Draghi as presiden -More- ……
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8/29/2018
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8/28/2018
EU legislators appear set to drop a proposal to exempt banks from regulatory reporting of exchange-traded derivatives, having -More- ……
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8/28/2018
The Chinese Financial Stability and Development Commission has ordered government agencies to get risk presented by undercapi -More- ……
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8/28/2018
Reporting of data by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and securities exchanges that was supposed to start Nov. -More- ……
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8/28/2018
Some exchanges harm competition by charging unreasonable fees for market-data products, the Managed Funds Association and the -More- ……
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8/27/2018
Sharon Donnery, deputy governor of the Irish central bank, has applied first to become head of the Single Supervisory Mechani -More- ……
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8/27/2018
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8/24/2018
The US Senate banking committee has voted unanimously to recommend confirmation of Elad Roisman as a member of the Securities -More- ……
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8/24/2018
UK Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said in a policy paper that although a no-deal Brexit is unlikely, British investors should -More- ……
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8/24/2018
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8/24/2018
Assets under management by hedge funds reached a record-high $3.61 trillion at the end of the first half of 2018, according t -More- ……
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8/23/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton says “high-pressure, product-based sales contests” for financial prof -More- ……
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8/23/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has voted unanimously to harmonize rules outlining duties of a chief compliance offi -More- ……
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8/23/2018
US regulators have adopted an interim rule relaxing liquidity requirements. -More- ……
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8/23/2018
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8/23/2018
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8/23/2018
Trade negotiators for the US and Mexico said they are close to a deal on bilateral issues under the North American Free Trade -More- ……
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8/23/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission should maintain its position that requiring arbitration for financial firms’ clients v -More- ……
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8/22/2018
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8/21/2018
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8/21/2018
A leverage-ratio standard adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision overstates the exposure of derivatives-tradin -More- ……
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8/21/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted amendments to a requirement that securities dealers make sure municipal bo -More- ……
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8/21/2018
London faces five key challenges as it strives to remain a premier financial hub after Brexit, Silla Brush and Alexander Webe -More- ……
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8/21/2018
Fund managers have warned a no-deal Brexit would mean high-risk European bank debt issued under English law would no longer c -More- ……
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8/20/2018
Time is running out for the UK and the EU to agree on a Brexit transition, said Kristian Jensen, Denmark’s finance minister. -More- ……
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8/20/2018
Fears are mounting Italy is on the verge of a fresh crisis as its coalition government emits mixed messages on whether it wil -More- ……
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8/20/2018
The effort by startup Long Term Stock Exchange to run a new kind of corporate listing program on the Investors’ Exchange suff -More- ……
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8/20/2018
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8/20/2018
President Donald Trump has tweeted a requirement for publicly traded companies to release financial results quarterly should -More- ……
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8/20/2018
A European Central Bank plan to normalize monetary policy is on track, says Jens Weidmann, president of Germany’s Bundesbank. -More- ……
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8/17/2018
EU officials have not denied suspicions their private Brexit meetings are bugged by British intelligence services. -More- ……
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8/17/2018
The EU will be “putting patients at risk” if it doesn’t strike a deal to let the UK continue to play a role in drug safety an -More- ……
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8/17/2018
The European Commission has rejected a proposal from regulators to crack down on brokers’ offering of reduced tick sizes. -More- ……
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8/17/2018
Regulatory and market changes concerning Libor have prompted pension funds to switch to bonds from swaps, according to a surv -More- ……
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8/17/2018
CME Group, Intercontinental Exchange and the Institute of International Bankers want the Commodity Futures Trading Commission -More- ……
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8/17/2018
President Donald Trump has told his Cabinet China is eager to resume trade talks this month but has yet to offer an acceptabl -More- ……
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8/16/2018
US District Judge Brian Morris has ruled the State Department must do a full environmental review of the revised route of the -More- ……
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8/16/2018
European central bankers are concerned a move toward digital payments could threaten the financial system, because it increas -More- ……
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8/16/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposal to treat the eurozone as a single jurisdiction when identifying global -More- ……
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8/16/2018
Banking industry groups oppose a proposal from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for calculating business activity to -More- ……
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8/16/2018
The Chinese Commerce Ministry says a delegation led by Vice Minister Wang Shouwen has been invited to the US for trade negoti -More- ……
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8/15/2018
Market participants are finding Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has created unintended consequenc -More- ……
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8/15/2018
The European Central Bank’s choice of who replaces Daniele Nouy as head of banking supervision is expected to affect the deci -More- ……
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8/15/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule that financial advice serve the best interest of investors should be r -More- ……
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8/14/2018
Banks hope to negotiate a carve-out from capital requirements under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book as they transi -More- ……
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8/14/2018
The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will act against any virtual-currency firm that does not es -More- ……
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8/14/2018
The Independent Music Companies Association is urging EU antitrust regulators to prevent Sony from acquiring an additional 60 -More- ……
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8/14/2018
President Donald Trump has signed a bill giving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US expanded authority to review fo -More- ……
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8/14/2018
The EU’s biggest banks decreased in 2017 illiquid, complex instruments by €34 billion, or 20%; intra-financial-system as -More- ……
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8/13/2018
Trade group Innovate Finance says the “global sandbox” launched by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority in cooperation with o -More- ……
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8/10/2018
Now that a crucial deadline under Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has passed, the number of marke -More- ……
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8/10/2018
Shrinkage in the number of broker-dealers and registered representatives that showed up in 2016 continued in 2017, according -More- ……
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8/09/2018
The Financial Stability Board is among standard-setters warning the supplementary leverage ratio under Basel III could inadve -More- ……
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8/09/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority has told national regulators to “not prioritize their supervisory actions” towa -More- ……
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8/09/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has voted to expand exemptions of non-US clearing firms registering as derivatives-c -More- ……
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8/09/2018
A group representing US states is pushing back against federal efforts to oversee financial-technology startups and to issue -More- ……
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8/08/2018
Italy’s coalition government has passed a package of labor laws to strengthen protections for workers, including restricting -More- ……
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8/08/2018
Regulators in about a dozen countries are building a financial-technology sandbox, with an eye toward helping startups. -More- ……
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8/08/2018
Market participants in the City of London say the EU is not reciprocating temporary permissions the UK is developing. -More- ……
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8/08/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has warned investors about nonexistent securities regulators and advisory firms falsel -More- ……
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8/08/2018
The US risks losing leadership in futures trading if it does not respond to challenges presented by China’s futures markets, -More- ……
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8/07/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision added trading and insurance metrics when it revised its assessment of banks’ syste -More- ……
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8/07/2018
Participants providing feedback in Securities and Exchange Commission roundtables in Atlanta and Houston regarding a proposed -More- ……
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8/07/2018
President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Allison Lee to replace Kara Stein as a Democratic member of the Securities and -More- ……
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8/06/2018
Regulation Best Interest, proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, could intensify the trend of brokers fleeing th -More- ……
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8/06/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Enforcement Director James McDonald has called 2018 a “transformative year.” The CFTC’s -More- ……
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8/06/2018
The intransigence of EU negotiators for a transitional trade arrangement between the UK and the EU after Brexit “is pushing u -More- ……
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8/06/2018
Big banks say the Financial Stability Board should drop a proposal for better reporting of compensation practices, including -More- ……
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8/06/2018
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has lobbied US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to leave in place a preferential tariff arrang -More- ……
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8/03/2018
China might retaliate if the US increases tariffs, says Chinese State Council member Wang Yi, who urges the US to “calm down” -More- ……
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8/03/2018
Apple has paid €9 billion of €13 billion in back taxes and €1 billion in interest to comply with an EU order r -More- ……
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8/03/2018
The Institute of Directors has urged the UK government to provide urgent guidance as a no-deal Brexit appears increasingly li -More- ……
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8/03/2018
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, said Brexit will not result in inevitable interest-rate reductions. -More- ……
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8/02/2018
Automated restriction of price swings is unnecessary at bond exchanges, according to the International Organization of Securi -More- ……
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8/02/2018
Congress has incorporated into a defense-spending bill a requirement that technology companies disclose whether they have giv -More- ……
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8/02/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority says a European Securities and Markets Authority crackdown on selling contracts for differ -More- ……
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8/02/2018
The European Central Bank is considering an earlier start date of the Euro Short-term Rate, which is set to publish in Octobe -More- ……
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8/01/2018
An industry statement casts doubt on novation, a strategy that purportedly would let UK firms transfer over-the-counter deriv -More- ……
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8/01/2018
The US Treasury Department has issued a 222-page report that urges flexible regulation of financial-technology companies. -More- ……
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8/01/2018
Morningstar’s suggestion that proposed Securities and Exchange Commission rules for research on open-ended funds and exchange -More- ……
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8/01/2018
Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s foreign secretary, is viewed as a possible next leader of the Conservative Party, a move that would mak -More- ……
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8/01/2018
Market participants are concerned the European Central Bank will choose a benchmark risk-free rate too late for a smooth tran -More- ……
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8/01/2018
Aspects of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed Regulation Best Interest could confuse clients about duties of f -More- ……
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7/31/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has released guidance explaining how advisers can conflict with a custody rule without -More- ……
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7/31/2018
Brexit could have a “systemic-risk impact on the world economy” if it isn’t orderly, says J. -More- ……
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7/31/2018
A European Central Bank survey has found that a net 17% of banks toughened credit terms for over-the-counter derivatives and -More- ……
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7/31/2018
The Trump administration supports Russia in a case before the World Trade Organization over when countries can violate commit -More- ……
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7/31/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is asking advisers to suggest what it can do to stimulate innovation in financial -More- ……
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7/31/2018
The Bank of Japan has changed monetary policy for the first time in almost two years, deciding to allow bigger fluctuations i -More- ……
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7/30/2018
Germany is stepping up efforts to prevent China from buying key assets. -More- ……
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7/30/2018
The way the Federal Reserve calculates global systemically important banks’ capital surcharge has US banks concerned about a -More- ……
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7/30/2018
The end of the US Labor Department’s revised fiduciary rule does not mean advisers working with retirement plans can stop com -More- ……
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7/30/2018
The Chinese government has moved to prevent online payment processor Ant Financial from starting a credit-scoring system and -More- ……
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7/30/2018
A rules revision by the China Securities Regulatory Commission has added to the types of misconduct that trigger delisting of -More- ……
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7/27/2018
The US Labor Department should issue guidance telling retirement-plan sponsors what they must do to find participants entitle -More- ……
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7/27/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has finished consolidating its two enforcement units, an initiative that began a -More- ……
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7/27/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. -More- ……
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7/27/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is unaware of systemic risk from hedge fund advisers and doesn’t track whether they fi -More- ……
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7/27/2018
The financial-services sector appears at risk of operational, financial and market-stability impact as replacement of Libor a -More- ……
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7/26/2018
Cybersecurity is cited as the biggest compliance challenge by 81% of registered investment advisers responding to an Investme -More- ……
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7/26/2018
Almost no progress is being made in US-EU talks on oversight of US derivatives clearinghouses operating within the EU after B -More- ……
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7/26/2018
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has shelved a proposal allowing companies to own share classes with weighted-voting rights. -More- ……
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7/25/2018
Twenty-one jurisdictions have adopted global standards for derivatives-trading repositories, including the EU and the UK, acc -More- ……
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7/25/2018
Elad Roisman, a nominee to the Securities and Exchange Commission, has told the Senate banking committee during a confirmatio -More- ……
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7/25/2018
The Main Street Investors Coalition, which says it represents the interests of small investors, is backed by big business. -More- ……
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7/24/2018
The 2018 Cryptocurrency Survey from Foley & Lardner found that 84% of financial professionals wanted initial coin offerings r -More- ……
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7/24/2018
The National Futures Association has proposed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a requirement that virtual-currency -More- ……
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7/24/2018
Investors will watch the outcome of this week’s European Central Bank meeting for details on tapering of quantitative easing. -More- ……
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7/24/2018
UK financiers are lobbying EU states to support a UK proposal for an enhanced equivalence regime after Brexit, despite a luke -More- ……
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7/24/2018
Legislation proposed in the UK would abolish a threshold on foreign takeovers, letting the government review an expected 50 d -More- ……
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7/23/2018
Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors said at a meeting they “recognize the need to step up dialogue and a -More- ……
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7/23/2018
Three US legislators have written Robert Cook, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, asking for an interpretati -More- ……
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7/23/2018
Japan will continue to refuse a bilateral free trade deal with the US, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says. -More- ……
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7/23/2018
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said that banks’ use of short-term wholesale funding “may serve -More- ……
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7/23/2018
Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has written US President Donald Trump to say he is confident North Ame -More- ……
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7/20/2018
The Financial Conduct Authority’s Nausicaa Delfas said the UK and the EU must create derivatives contractual certainty after -More- ……
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7/20/2018
The experience of President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Kathy Kraninger, drew -More- ……
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A “material impact” to some eurozone lenders’ capital and cash positions could result from sudden increases in interest rates -More- ……
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7/20/2018
There aren’t enough cryptocurrency assets being traded to present a threat to the financial system, Federal Reserve Chairman -More- ……
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7/20/2018
The European Union is pushing China to open its economy to foreign investments and help restore the international trade order -More- ……
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7/20/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton has instructed his staff to review whether there are opportunities to -More- ……
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A London judge has handed down prison terms totaling more than 13 years for two former French traders convicted of conspiring -More- ……
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7/19/2018
The People’s Bank of China is offering Chinese banks money, requesting that large lenders take the lead in executing plans to -More- ……
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7/19/2018
Wall Street banks are responding to pressure from the Federal Reserve to eliminate provisions that could encourage excessive -More- ……
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7/18/2018
The EU and Japan have negotiated a deal that will allow companies to transfer personal data between the two entities, Europea -More- ……
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7/18/2018
Securities regulators in the US, the UK and Australia are among world leaders in development and application of financial tec -More- ……
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7/17/2018
Natasha Cazenave, head of policy and international affairs at France’s Autorite des Marches Financiers, has called for renewe -More- ……
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7/17/2018
The Financial Stability Board called for “vigilant monitoring” of crypto assets because of the speed at which new development -More- ……
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7/17/2018
The European Central Bank has advertised the post of bank supervisory chief; Daniele Nuoy is due to step down Dec. 31. -More- ……
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7/17/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued an advisory about the risks involved in initial coin offerings and crypto -More- ……
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7/17/2018
The US House is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a package of 32 bills aimed at easing the Dodd-Frank Act. -More- ……
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7/16/2018
A group of 803 small broker-dealers has written House Financial Services Committee leadership urging support for legislation -More- ……
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7/16/2018
A proposal to give an EU regulator authority over financial benchmarks could put conflicting requirements on US companies, Co -More- ……
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7/16/2018
The EU’s top court has struck down a European Central Bank requirement that six French banks hold capital against customer de -More- ……
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7/16/2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May says the Brexit plan laid out in a government white paper, which calls for a closer UK-EU trade -More- ……
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7/16/2018
Advisers to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York warn the growing presence of proprietary-trading firms might leave the US Tr -More- ……
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7/13/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission said its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has found widespread failur -More- ……
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7/13/2018
US and UK regulators, as well as global standard-setters, are warning market participants to prepare faster for the day Libor -More- ……
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7/13/2018
The Justice Department is appealing a ruling by US District Judge Richard Leon that gave AT&T permission to buy Time Warner. -More- ……
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7/13/2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has released her post-Brexit blueprint to stay tied to the EU single market; it drops mutual re -More- ……
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7/13/2018
Republican and Democratic senators said they will work to enact legislation that would give Congress a voice on whether the U -More- ……
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7/12/2018
A US ban on China’s ZTE will lift when the company puts $400 million in an escrow account as part of a $1.4 billion settlemen -More- ……
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7/12/2018
The US House Financial Services Committee has unanimously approved bills to ease regulatory costs for small financial-advisor -More- ……
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7/12/2018
Foreign banks operating in the US want the Federal Reserve to reduce capital requirements more than an amount proposed in Apr -More- ……
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7/12/2018
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order ending administrative law judges’ “competitive service” classific -More- ……
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7/12/2018
A lack of data provision from regulators and confusion over which transactions need reporting have firms struggling with repo -More- ……
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7/11/2018
The Federal Reserve is seeking advice from the banking industry on how to incorporate a new accounting standard into its annu -More- ……
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7/11/2018
A bill scheduled to be heard Wednesday in a US House committee seeks to reduce costs faced by small investment-advisory compa -More- ……
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7/11/2018
Frederic Hervo, head of international affairs at French regulator ACPR, says the agency favors a proportional approach to imp -More- ……
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7/11/2018
A bill scheduled to be heard Wednesday by the US House Financial Services Committee seeks to establish a Securities and Excha -More- ……
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7/11/2018
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research has proposed rules to mandate reporting of repo trades cleared thro -More- ……
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7/10/2018
Leandra English, deputy director of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says she will no longer challenge Mick Mulva -More- ……
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7/10/2018
IHS Markit has received approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority to be a benchmark administrator under the EU Benchma -More- ……
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7/10/2018
Broker-dealers should inform the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority if they are involved in digital assets or plan to en -More- ……
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7/10/2018
Stress tests of banks, pension funds and insurers should evaluate the risk of long-term low interest rates, as well as sudden -More- ……
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7/09/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission became interested in credit default swaps when an incident involving an investment f -More- ……
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7/09/2018
The Federal Reserve has received a request from nine regional banks to change a proposal to base capital requirements on stre -More- ……
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7/09/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has expanded FAQ explaining a custody rule, but advisers remain uneasy about how to co -More- ……
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7/09/2018
A free trade deal negotiated by the EU and Japan has been approved by members of the EU, clearing the way for a signing cerem -More- ……
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7/06/2018
The Bank of England and the UK Financial Conduct Authority have told financial firms they must implement systems that can rec -More- ……
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7/06/2018
Beginning Monday, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority will search public records to verify information provided by ap -More- ……
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7/05/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority urges EU states to refrain from disciplinary action against pension funds that -More- ……
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7/05/2018
DowDuPont subsidiary Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle charges of failure to properly disclose $3 millio -More- ……
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7/05/2018
Total compensation paid by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to its workers declined from $699 million in 2016 to $ -More- ……
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7/03/2018
The European Fund and Asset Management Association said EU regulators need to revise the methodology for determining transact -More- ……
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7/03/2018
Foreign banks that do business in the US want the Federal Reserve to hold off on basing capital requirements for large financ -More- ……
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7/03/2018
Nasdaq plans to challenge CME Group for US Treasury trading by launching an interest-rate futures contract. -More- ……
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7/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Chairman Jay Clayton will conduct roundtable meetings in Miami, Philadelphia, Den -More- ……
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7/02/2018
Banks’ living wills should anticipate shutdown of derivatives trading between affiliates during a crisis, according to a prop -More- ……
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7/02/2018
Some US states have moved forward with carbon-trading schemes based on international programs that have attracted investors, -More- ……
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7/02/2018
The Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review has found 12 foreign banks have an average post-stress Common -More- ……
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7/02/2018
European trading venues are concerned delisting of certain securities because issuers have not obtained a legal entity identi -More- ……
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7/02/2018
Twenty-one Democratic senators have written to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking it to review rules governing sto -More- ……
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6/29/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed streamlining how most exchange-traded funds are approved by no longer req -More- ……
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6/29/2018
China has eased curbs on foreign investment in sectors including banking, automotive, heavy industry and agriculture, a move -More- ……
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6/29/2018
Increasing vulnerability to interest-rate shocks should prompt banks to monitor risk created by financial ties to insurers, i -More- ……
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6/29/2018
A coalition of groups representing registered investment advisers has launched a campaign to make sure the Securities and Exc -More- ……
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6/29/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have approved a memorandum of understandi -More- ……
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6/28/2018
Criminal tax lawyer Charles Rettig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the IRS, is expected to be questioned closely ab -More- ……
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6/28/2018
The Trump administration has abandoned a proposal to use emergency power granted by a little-known 1977 law to stop Chinese a -More- ……
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6/28/2018
The US Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that public-sector unions cannot contractually require nonunion employees to pay fees cou -More- ……
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6/28/2018
A European Central Bank review of internal models and disagreement between the European Council and the European Parliament c -More- ……
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6/28/2018
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has rejected the European Banking Authority’s assertions UK banks are not ready for a “h -More- ……
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6/28/2018
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to issue waivers to some rules for s -More- ……
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6/27/2018
The Federal Reserve is expected to move away from a pass-fail grading system for banks’ stress test toward a system whereby b -More- ……
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6/27/2018
UK banks cannot postpone compliance with international capital standards for market risk, unlike financial institutions in ju -More- ……
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6/27/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority is reviewing research pricing, which must be broken out under Europe’s revised Markets in -More- ……
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6/27/2018
The US Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to back a 13% increase in fiscal 2019 funding for the Commodity Futures Trad -More- ……
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6/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission should change its definition of “accredited investor” to allow more people to invest i -More- ……
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6/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has released guidance on its custody rule in the form of FAQ. -More- ……
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6/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a stay order on all cases pending before in-house administrative law judges -More- ……
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6/26/2018
Regulators in the UK, North America and Asia want an exemption from the EU General Data Protection Regulation to ease cross-b -More- ……
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6/25/2018
US District Judge Loretta Preska has ruled that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional -More- ……
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6/25/2018
Most of the world’s biggest banks aren’t adequately accounting for total risk exposure across subsidiaries, geographical boun -More- ……
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6/25/2018
The Council of Institutional Investors supports Securities and Exchange Commission member Robert Jackson Jr.’s call to review -More- ……
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6/25/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton has asked stock and options exchanges to report on their progress tow -More- ……
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6/22/2018
The UK Treasury is not “the enemy of Brexit,” Chancellor Philip Hammond said. -More- ……
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6/22/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told the House Financial Services Committee that the agency may exten -More- ……
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6/22/2018
Contracts for interest-rate derivatives need to add provisions to account for the possibility of Libor’s demise, said Federal -More- ……
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6/22/2018
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has issued a 70-page order that vacates the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule. -More- ……
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6/22/2018
European Securities and Markets Authority Chairman Steven Maijoor said a “harmonized third-country regime” will be needed for -More- ……
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6/22/2018
EU banks say their data do not come close to standards in a stress test the European Banking Authority started in January. -More- ……
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6/21/2018
Regulators in jurisdictions including the UK, Canada, Hong Kong and the Netherlands are trying improve corporate culture at b -More- ……
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6/21/2018
The EU is moving forward with development of a regulatory framework for portable pan-European pension products for employees -More- ……
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6/20/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a five-year plan that makes protecting Main Street investors the No. -More- ……
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6/20/2018
Market participants have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to let them form a committee to propose changes to rule -More- ……
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6/20/2018
Central banks should consider narrowing their power to blunt efforts by elected officials to undermine their independence, sa -More- ……
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6/19/2018
The Christian Social Union has given German Chancellor Angela Merkel two weeks to work with the EU on a Europe-wide immigrati -More- ……
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6/19/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said at an industry conference that financial markets are “fertile gr -More- ……
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6/18/2018
Regulations enacted to prevent a repeat of the global financial crisis should be broadened to cover fintech firms and shadow -More- ……
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6/18/2018
A Bank for International Settlements report warns that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are unlikely to ever become mainstr -More- ……
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6/18/2018
“The jury is still out” on whether Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive works, says Autorite des March -More- ……
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6/18/2018
Merrill Lynch may reverse its decision to prohibit the payment of commissions to brokers who sell retirement accounts now tha -More- ……
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6/15/2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked parliament President Wolfgang Schaeuble to mediate talks between her Christian Demo -More- ……
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6/15/2018
Cryptocurrency investors have expressed relief after the Securities and Exchange Commission said treating ether transactions -More- ……
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6/15/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has urged a US court to deem My Big Coin cryptocurrency a commodity subject to CFTC -More- ……
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6/14/2018
The European Central Bank is discussing Thursday discontinuation of quantitative easing by the end of 2018. -More- ……
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6/14/2018
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was re-elected in South Korea as the ruling Democratic Party won 13 of 17 metropolitan gubernatoria -More- ……
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6/14/2018
Mary Schapiro, former chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, says it is time to revisit the Dodd-Frank Act wit -More- ……
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6/14/2018
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is dealing with unusual circumstances at Thursday’s meeting in Latvia, where dis -More- ……
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6/14/2018
Research shows proprietary- and high-frequency-trading firms have not weakened US commodity futures markets, said Commodity F -More- ……
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6/13/2018
The US Senate aims to use a measure in a defense bill to block President Donald Trump’s attempt to lift a ban on Chinese smar -More- ……
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6/13/2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the US would run a trade surplus with the EU, instead of the deficit President Donald Tr -More- ……
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6/13/2018
Research unbundling, required by Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, will happen in the US within fo -More- ……
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6/12/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton says much of the Dodd-Frank Act will remain, though regulators are lo -More- ……
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6/12/2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a power challenge as Parliament debates a “meaningful vote” on any Brexit agreem -More- ……
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6/12/2018
A draft European Commission investment-firm regulation that is expected to be finalized by April might be difficult to “emplo -More- ……
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6/11/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority is relaxing standards for sovereign-controlled firms to list in Britain, a move the Instit -More- ……
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6/11/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase, Bitstamp, itBit and Kraken to provide t -More- ……
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6/11/2018
Proposed revisions to the Volcker rule requiring banks to promptly notify regulators if they breach the proprietary-trading p -More- ……
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6/08/2018
Institutional investors are reluctant to make a move until the Securities and Exchange Commission clarifies its position on d -More- ……
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6/08/2018
The US has agreed to remove a ban on purchases from US suppliers by Chinese tech firm ZTE. -More- ……
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6/08/2018
The Japanese Financial Services Agency is calling for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to complete the Fundamental -More- ……
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6/08/2018
Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said the country will open anti-dumping investigations into US firms in light of US t -More- ……
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6/07/2018
Market observers have hailed the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s plan to crack down on lenders by demanding transparency on -More- ……
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6/07/2018
Opening of the Chinese futures market to international investors presents long-term competition for the US, Commodity Future -More- ……
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6/07/2018
Securities rules will not be modified to accommodate cryptocurrencies, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayto -More- ……
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6/07/2018
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has hired a record number of women for his Cabinet, delivering on his promise to include -More- ……
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6/07/2018
Financial-technology firms are underrepresented in a European Commission advisory group on regulatory obstacles to innovation -More- ……
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6/06/2018
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has proposed keeping “full access” to the EU’s single market, which would amend Prime Mi -More- ……
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6/06/2018
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation wants to add unique product identifiers for derivatives products and to serve a -More- ……
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6/06/2018
Uncertainty regarding a Brexit transition period has banks hesitating to make costly preparations, says Ignazio Angeloni, a b -More- ……
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6/05/2018
Mexico plans to file a challenge with the World Trade Organization regarding US tariffs on steel and aluminum, the economy mi -More- ……
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6/05/2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a crucial Brexit debate when changes to exit legislation are brought to the floor of -More- ……
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6/05/2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May has told President Donald Trump US tariffs on aluminum and steel are “unjustified and deep -More- ……
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6/04/2018
Japan’s finance minister, Taro Aso, has said he will return a year’s worth of salary as he acknowledged responsibility for fa -More- ……
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6/04/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission increased scrutiny of UK financial profes -More- ……
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6/04/2018
The Italian bond market has not shown signs of calming, with yields continuing to rise, despite progress toward establishment -More- ……
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6/04/2018
Zhang Ming, China’s ambassador to the EU, is visiting EU organizations to promote Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plan for a ” -More- ……
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6/01/2018
The impact of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is being felt in the Arab world. -More- ……
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6/01/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission will review a complaint that earnings and sales data made public by insurer Aflac misl -More- ……
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6/01/2018
Compliance workloads have increased significantly under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II and prompted close scru -More- ……
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6/01/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority will begin more thorough searches of public records related to individuals applyi -More- ……
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6/01/2018
Luis de Guindos, former economy minister of Spain, starts Friday as vice president of the European Central Bank and is expect -More- ……
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5/31/2018
The European Commission is changing rules for the Erasmus educational-aid program to let UK students continue participating a -More- ……
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5/31/2018
Groups representing financial firms and consumers are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to postpone the deadl -More- ……
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5/31/2018
The European Round Table of Industrialists, a group of major firms, has called on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to clarify po -More- ……
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5/31/2018
Companies that want in on Hong Kong’s first round of licenses for online-only banks should submit applications by Aug. -More- ……
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5/31/2018
A US bill introduced by Democratic Sen. -More- ……
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5/31/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s guidance on post-trade data regulations set out in the revised Markets in Fin -More- ……
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5/30/2018
US financial regulators are likely to revise banks’ capital requirements in response to a measure signed into law by Presiden -More- ……
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5/30/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has halted an initial coin offering by Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services and -More- ……
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5/30/2018
Britain’s plan to pull out of the EU customs union and single market is “unsustainable,” said First Minister of Scotland Nico -More- ……
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5/29/2018
Independence is important for central banks, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says, and politicians shouldn’t interfere -More- ……
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5/25/2018
The Bank of England is prepared to respond “in whatever form it takes” to any upheaval a disorderly Brexit might bring, Gover -More- ……
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5/25/2018
Russian energy giant Gazprom, a major supplier of natural gas to Central and Eastern Europe, has agreed to change the way it -More- ……
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5/25/2018
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is requiring banks to revisit some technology decisions, especially around the us -More- ……
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5/25/2018
The Federal Reserve is expected to respond to legislation that rolls back aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act by relaxing requireme -More- ……
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5/25/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to propose rules authorizing broker-dealers to make public research on excha -More- ……
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5/24/2018
Top European banks are requesting that regulators clarify plans for the rise of cryptocurrencies, including potential regulat -More- ……
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5/24/2018
At its core, the best-interest standard proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission would apply equally to all financi -More- ……
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5/24/2018
The Trump administration has not yet decided whether to lift a ban on Chinese telecommunication firm ZTE, US Secretary of Sta -More- ……
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5/24/2018
Regulators are monitoring developments in financial technology for signs of risk to stability or competition, says William Co -More- ……
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5/24/2018
The European Commission has recommended taking France out of excessive-deficit procedures for EU states with deficits that ex -More- ……
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5/24/2018
Congress has sent to President Donald Trump a measure that protects financial professionals who report financial exploitation -More- ……
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5/23/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking for broker-dealers’ comments on a standard-of-conduct package proposed in Ap -More- ……
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5/23/2018
European Commission legislation that would require UK financial firms to obtain advance approval from EU agencies before sett -More- ……
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5/23/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority ends support for the London Interbank Offered Rate in 2021, and central bankers say it is -More- ……
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5/23/2018
The European Central Bank says banks relocating from the UK because of Brexit will receive regulatory leniency as they set up -More- ……
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5/22/2018
The North American Securities Administrators Association has completed a sweep of enforcement actions directed at initial coi -More- ……
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5/22/2018
Elad Roisman, chief counsel to the US Senate banking committee, is being considered by the White House as the replacement for -More- ……
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5/22/2018
Examinations by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority will look at compliance if the Securities and Exchange Commission -More- ……
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5/21/2018
The Federal Reserve will ask for public comment on whether it should revise guidance for living wills for major US banks and -More- ……
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5/21/2018
The French government is considering the possibility of the EU’s compensating European companies harmed by US sanctions on Ir -More- ……
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5/21/2018
A committee of the European Parliament has voted to narrow a proposal on oversight of foreign derivatives clearinghouses. -More- ……
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5/18/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has proposed requiring broker-dealers and associated persons to make insurance in -More- ……
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5/18/2018
The “opaque” way the Council of the EU conducts business leads to unfair blaming of bureaucrats in Brussels for many problems -More- ……
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5/18/2018
Southern eurozone states’ efforts to reduce risk should add impetus to the banking-union project, says Vitor Constancio, vice -More- ……
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5/17/2018
It isn’t clear why President Donald Trump wants to replace Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. -More- ……
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5/17/2018
The UK has said it may reduce its cooperation with the EU on security matters or build a separate system to compete with the -More- ……
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5/16/2018
EU officials, at the urging of German industrial executives, are looking at the possibility technology purchased from Chinese -More- ……
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5/16/2018
President Donald Trump has nominated software executive Gordon Hartogensis, brother-in-law of Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc -More- ……
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5/16/2018
The European Central Bank’s Cornelia Holthausen says that despite a move by UK and US regulators to move legacy swaps to risk -More- ……
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5/16/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Rostin Behnam says the agency can pursue spoofing cases against firms that fail t -More- ……
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5/15/2018
The European Commission plans to begin negotiations aimed at easing the transfer of data between the EU and India and Brazil, -More- ……
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5/15/2018
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said the final version of its new customer due diligence rule -More- ……
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5/15/2018
Asian central bankers reviewed ways to use financial technology to deal with money laundering and terrorism financing at a me -More- ……
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5/15/2018
European Central Bank board member Yves Mersch said at a conference that banks need to ring-fence their cryptocurrency busine -More- ……
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5/14/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been working with the National Futures Association on proposed guidelines to str -More- ……
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5/14/2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered government officials to complete work on post-Brexit immigration policies sooner th -More- ……
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5/14/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce said the enforcement division should focus on big cases, rather than -More- ……
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5/14/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce says she has reservations about regulatory sandboxes for financial-te -More- ……
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5/14/2018
The IRS has debuted Tax Exempt Organization Search, an online tool that gives the public an easy way to find data on tax-exem -More- ……
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5/14/2018
The Chinese housing ministry has reminded city officials to implement measures to prevent property prices from getting out of -More- ……
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5/11/2018
The US Federal Trade Commission has suggested the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau limit the number of officials authoriz -More- ……
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5/11/2018
An updated rule from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on customer confirmations takes effect Monday. -More- ……
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5/11/2018
White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios told a gathering of tech firms the Trump administration will take a free-mark -More- ……
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5/11/2018
Chinese regulators are drafting policies to allow real estate investment trusts, sources say. -More- ……
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5/10/2018
The US Justice Department’s antitrust division is leaning toward opposing Comcast’s acquisition of entertainment assets of 21 -More- ……
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5/10/2018
The European Central Bank has published the European Framework for Threat Intelligence-based Ethical Red Teaming, which gauge -More- ……
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5/10/2018
US regulators are struggling with how to address increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to plan finan -More- ……
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5/10/2018
Hong Kong is encouraging innovation by financial-technology startups by making regulation more open and agile, said officials -More- ……
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5/10/2018
A loophole in Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive could let some non-European firms bypass a ban on p -More- ……
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5/10/2018
The People’s Bank of China has released data-protection rules for credit reporting agencies, banks and other financial instit -More- ……
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5/09/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority reportedly has noticed an increase of more than 15% in Virgin Money’s share price ahead of -More- ……
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5/09/2018
Some derivatives clearinghouses are not dealing with shortcomings in precautions to avoid big losses and cash shortfalls, acc -More- ……
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5/09/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released two videos alerting consumers to the risk of investing in binary option -More- ……
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5/08/2018
The number of investment advisers registered with state regulators is 17,688, an increase of 44 over the figure for 2017, acc -More- ……
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5/08/2018
Michael Piwowar, a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, says he will leave July 7 or beforehand if hi -More- ……
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5/08/2018
Chinese policymakers are writing rules that would require financial holding companies involved in at least two industries, su -More- ……
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5/07/2018
New York and Illinois are looking into creating regulatory sandboxes to encourage innovation by financial-technology startups -More- ……
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5/07/2018
Cryptocurrency exchanges are looking elsewhere for business or operation as regulation strengthens in Japan and Hong Kong. -More- ……
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5/07/2018
Statements made by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. -More- ……
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5/07/2018
The UK has criticized a proposal to transfer regulation of crowdfunding from national regulators to the European Securities a -More- ……
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5/07/2018
The Federal Reserve is considering whether to change its regulatory approach to include “more specialized responses” to use o -More- ……
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5/04/2018
Market participants who have been issued legal-entity identifiers have more than doubled since January 2017, according to the -More- ……
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5/04/2018
Companies are spending millions to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into effect May 25. -More- ……
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5/04/2018
The update to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has failed to boost trading in Nordic transparent markets, with -More- ……
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5/04/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has changed an anti-money-laundering rule to make it consistent with a final rule -More- ……
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5/04/2018
The update to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is having little impact on the bond market, with all but a tiny -More- ……
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5/04/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has proposed guidelines that instruct adjudicators hearing disciplinary cases to -More- ……
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5/03/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected requests from NYSE Group, Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets for authorizatio -More- ……
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5/03/2018
Major UK banks that do not significantly progress toward good-conduct practices face heightened scrutiny, the Financial Condu -More- ……
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5/03/2018
Blockchain technology offers potential to create a system that overcomes shortcomings and inconsistencies in reporting of der -More- ……
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5/03/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has created a database that investors can search to determine whether brokers or advis -More- ……
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5/03/2018
CryptoUK, a group of eight cryptocurrency platforms, wants the Treasury to support its proposal for regulation by the Financi -More- ……
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5/02/2018
Financial-services and business organizations that successfully challenged the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule urged the US -More- ……
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5/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has released an FAQ on its Share Class Selection Disclosure Initiative. -More- ……
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5/02/2018
The US and Japan have made significantly less progress than the EU in implementing Basel III, adopted after the financial cri -More- ……
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5/02/2018
EU finance ministers have informally agreed to press for the Pan-European Personal Pension Product. -More- ……
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5/02/2018
The upcoming Securities Financing Transaction Regulation seeks to increase transparency surrounding collateral arrangements a -More- ……
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5/02/2018
An analysis by Forrester finds most organizations unprepared for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, even though the -More- ……
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5/02/2018
Brexit could severely hamper the financial-technology industry’s growth and could tarnish the UK’s status as a pioneering hub -More- ……
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5/02/2018
The failure of Asian regulators to adopt rules clarifying responsibilities is slowing down banks that want to move more servi -More- ……
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5/02/2018
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is complicating the already messy issue of managing financial data flows after Br -More- ……
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5/01/2018
The Federal Reserve’s David Lynch has dismissed the notion that the US won’t implement the Fundamental Review of the Trading -More- ……
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5/01/2018
Some banks are pushing for slower adoption of international standards for measuring counterparty risk. -More- ……
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5/01/2018
The China Securities Regulatory Commission has raised the limit on foreign ownership of money-management joint ventures with -More- ……
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5/01/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority reminded broker-dealers of their responsibility to exercise intensified supervisi -More- ……
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4/30/2018
Eurozone banks may find their holdings of domestic government debt receiving more attention than in the past as the EU moves -More- ……
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4/30/2018
The EU should rewrite a bill establishing new oversight procedures for foreign derivatives clearinghouses to exclude the US, -More- ……
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4/30/2018
France’s proposal for a European tax on digital giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google ran into resistance at a meeting of E -More- ……
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4/30/2018
Many countries have created “sandboxes” to encourage innovation by financial-technology startups, but the US is lagging behin -More- ……
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4/27/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told a US House subcommittee that he wants to end “confusion in the m -More- ……
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4/27/2018
Questions about the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are still unresolved as the UK’s withdrawal f -More- ……
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4/27/2018
Members of the European Parliament have a preliminary agreement to transfer much of the oversight of derivatives clearinghous -More- ……
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4/27/2018
Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission made public proposed guidelines for protecting EU citizens’ data after tra -More- ……
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4/27/2018
The Internal Revenue Service says it is postponing enforcement of a requirement to report the sales of life insurance policie -More- ……
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4/26/2018
The US Labor Department’s fiduciary rule delivered “tangible good” for investors by improving broker-dealer advice before an -More- ……
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4/26/2018
Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret says he supports exempting US derivatives clearinghouses from legislation that would -More- ……
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4/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday determined that Yahoo failed to properly disclose and investigate a 2014 da -More- ……
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4/26/2018
Firms that participate in “manufactured credit events” involving credit default swaps might be engaging in price manipulation -More- ……
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4/25/2018
The Delhi High Court has ordered the Reserve Bank of India to explain a directive that banks sever ties with bitcoin exchange -More- ……
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4/25/2018
Switzerland’s effort to gain greater access to the EU financial-services market is running into the politics of Brexit, says -More- ……
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4/25/2018
US and EU regulators are working to comply with sometimes-conflicting rules on data privacy. -More- ……
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4/25/2018
The US Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 inter partes patent reviews by the Patent and Trademark Office are legal, but the court al -More- ……
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4/25/2018
Former US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said the Securities and Exchange Commission probably wou -More- ……
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4/24/2018
The US Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Securities and Exchange C -More- ……
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4/24/2018
Regulators should take a risk-based approach that prioritizes banks that “display significant cultural drivers of misconduct, -More- ……
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4/24/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has proposed letting it find a broker guilty of churning, or excessive trading in -More- ……
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4/24/2018
The Federal Reserve has nearly completed a proposal for the net stable funding ratio, said Governor Lael Brainard. -More- ……
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4/24/2018
China will eliminate import duties on 28 drugs starting May 1. -More- ……
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4/23/2018
Jacob Frenkel, chairman of JPMorgan Chase International, says a trade war would be “disastrous” and “an experiment that is to -More- ……
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4/23/2018
President Donald Trump’s tweet that oil prices are “artificially very high,” implying OPEC is manipulating prices, drew react -More- ……
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4/20/2018
The UK and the US plan to form the Financial Regulatory Working Group to ensure financial stability and market efficiency aft -More- ……
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4/20/2018
Trade tension could reduce investment as businesses experience an “erosion of confidence,” says Christine Lagarde, managing d -More- ……
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4/20/2018
The majority of US firms say establishing a Chinese research and development center is of minimal importance compared with ot -More- ……
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4/20/2018
The International Monetary Fund urges regulators and policymakers in different jurisdictions to use a “nimble, innovative and -More- ……
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4/20/2018
Silicon Valley is lobbying for exemptions from Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory oversight until the cr -More- ……
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4/19/2018
European Parliament member Kay Swinburne, an author of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, says Brexit th -More- ……
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4/18/2018
The role of a chief data officer is evolving beyond the regulatory burden that prompted its creation. -More- ……
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4/18/2018
Liquidity conditions are improving in the corporate bond markets, with participants saying deals under $5 million are easily -More- ……
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4/18/2018
Many organizations are not prepared for the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, as many fail to understand the broad -More- ……
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4/18/2018
China plans to remove restrictions on foreign ownership of shipbuilding companies and aircraft manufacturers this year, as we -More- ……
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4/18/2018
Use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology by digital financial institutions could “fundamentally change how we -More- ……
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4/18/2018
The Massachusetts Securities Division is fighting Scottrade’s effort to shift the division’s case accusing the broker-dealer -More- ……
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4/18/2018
Brexit is a driver of a 20% risk premium for the pound, though this premium could become smaller should the UK be successful -More- ……
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4/18/2018
Regulation of banks’ nonperforming assets varies worldwide, hindering prevention of another financial crisis, according to a -More- ……
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4/17/2018
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde wants an evenhanded approach to cryptocurrencies that minimiz -More- ……
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4/17/2018
The Federation of German Industries opposes a European Commission proposal for digital firms to pay more tax, saying it could -More- ……
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4/17/2018
Bills in Congress would give the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US power to block foreign acquisition of minority sta -More- ……
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4/17/2018
Small financial institutions should not face Basel Committee on Banking Supervision measures “designed for their larger peers -More- ……
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4/17/2018
President Donald Trump will nominate Dan Michael Berkovitz to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the White House said. -More- ……
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4/17/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it will soon make public guidance in the form of FAQ for its program related to s -More- ……
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4/17/2018
The foreign ministers of Japan and China have held their first high-level economic talks in nearly eight years amid trade ten -More- ……
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4/16/2018
EU traders and other financial firms need to work harder and faster to be ready for the possibility that the UK will leave th -More- ……
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4/16/2018
The House of Representatives agreed Friday to designate the Federal Reserve as the Volcker rule’s primary regulator, rather t -More- ……
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4/16/2018
A survey found that 52% of the British believe they should be given the chance to vote on the final Brexit deal. -More- ……
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4/13/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a risk alert about regulatory violations involving financial professionals -More- ……
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4/13/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is questioning more than 20 firms about oversight of product sales linked to the -More- ……
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4/13/2018
Rules enacted since the financial crisis have forced banks to hold more capital, causing “a significant decline in banks’ glo -More- ……
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4/13/2018
A review by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of some standards has led the EU to delay implementation of some capit -More- ……
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4/13/2018
Financial institutions must develop Brexit contingency plans immediately to avoid disruption to cross-border derivatives, EU -More- ……
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4/13/2018
Mexican negotiators are working to finish updating a 17-year-old free trade agreement with the EU. -More- ……
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4/13/2018
A bill that would give nonbank financial institutions a stronger voice in the process the US Financial Stability Oversight Co -More- ……
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4/12/2018
A lack of details on the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU could damage the aviation sector, Airbus CEO Tom Enders sa -More- ……
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4/12/2018
Stress tests are needed to evaluate consequences of a bank default or other systemic shock for derivatives clearinghouses, ac -More- ……
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4/12/2018
The European Commission has called for strengthened safety-testing procedures before products are approved for sale throughou -More- ……
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4/11/2018
To head off another massive theft of cryptocurrency, such as one at bitcoin exchange Coincheck, the Japanese Financial Servic -More- ……
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4/11/2018
The Confederation of British Industry has found the majority of UK companies prefer to follow EU rules after Brexit. -More- ……
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4/11/2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has hinted she might not allow construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germ -More- ……
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4/10/2018
Japanese businesses are concerned and disappointed by suggestions from EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova that an agreement -More- ……
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4/10/2018
A survey from Fidelity Investments has found that over the past five years, 56% of advisers have thought about changing firms -More- ……
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4/10/2018
Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has forced the UK Financial Conduct Authority to focus part of it -More- ……
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4/10/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has requested EU regulatory cooperation to limit disruption to financial firms throughout -More- ……
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4/10/2018
Eurozone governments must progress quickly toward establishing a banking union or the initiative could be stalled until next -More- ……
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4/10/2018
Division within the EU stands in the way of enforceable global carbon-emissions limits for maritime shipping. -More- ……
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4/09/2018
Scottrade has filed to move to federal court a case in which the Massachusetts Securities Division alleges violation of the U -More- ……
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4/09/2018
Regulators should seek ways to improve pretrade transparency in corporate bonds, the International Organization of Securities -More- ……
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4/09/2018
Regional banks welcome the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposed technical amendments to the Fundamental Review o -More- ……
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4/09/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will probably adjust capital requirements proposed under the Obama administration fo -More- ……
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4/09/2018
Europe’s independent cooperative and savings banks want modification to Basel Committee on Banking Supervision rules that the -More- ……
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4/09/2018
The EU Single Resolution Board urges eurozone banks to prepare for potential Brexit consequences for more than €100 bill -More- ……
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4/06/2018
The Federal Reserve should issue a proposal for executives’ risk-oversight responsibilities at US operations of foreign banks -More- ……
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4/06/2018
Many members of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee would prefer increased transparency on upcoming interest-rate p -More- ……
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4/06/2018
The long-anticipated update to Europe’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has taken effect, and the buy side is feel -More- ……
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4/06/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has updated its anti-money-laundering template for broker-dealers, and it include -More- ……
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4/06/2018
A post-Brexit trade agreement with India is a high priority for Brexit supporters in the UK, but India has made clear that it -More- ……
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4/05/2018
Trump administration officials renegotiating the North American Free Tree Agreement have scaled back their demand for a minim -More- ……
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4/05/2018
US financial regulators’ continued participation in setting of global standards under the Trump administration is viewed favo -More- ……
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4/05/2018
Twelve cryptocurrency exchanges have been ordered by the South Korean Fair Trade Commission to revise adhesion contracts. -More- ……
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4/05/2018
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has introduced an interest-rate benchmark to substitute the US dollar London Interbank O -More- ……
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4/05/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission said investors should be alert to criminals claiming to be SEC employees while promoti -More- ……
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4/04/2018
Paris is expected to gain 2,280 financial positions by March because of Brexit-related relocation, according to a survey of 1 -More- ……
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4/04/2018
EU and Japanese negotiators aim to reach a data-transfer deal by summer. -More- ……
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4/04/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is exposing the US economy to the risk of market disruption by not addressing automa -More- ……
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4/04/2018
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams will succeed William -More- ……
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4/03/2018
Consumers should consider dangers such as identity theft before using data aggregators that consolidate information about mul -More- ……
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4/03/2018
An EY survey of initial public offerings suggests London will remain a leading financial hub after the UK leaves the EU. -More- ……
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4/03/2018
Market participants are divided on whether making US Treasury market data public would help as they meet with Treasury Depart -More- ……
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4/03/2018
The EU’s focus on Brexit negotiations is leaving little time for talks on how to improve Switzerland’s market access, says He -More- ……
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4/02/2018
A compromise between the EU and the US is expected by summer regarding tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, says Ger -More- ……
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4/02/2018
The London Interbank Offered Rate will exist after a 2021 target date to shift to alternatives, says Hester Serafini, preside -More- ……
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4/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted 3-2 to waive regulatory sanctions for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Interco -More- ……
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3/30/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to finish work on establishing a business threshold for registration of -More- ……
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3/30/2018
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority has relaxed rules so more EU insurers can open branches in the UK after Brexit without -More- ……
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3/29/2018
The French government has proposed that the EU change the way capital requirements for insurers are calculated to favor long- -More- ……
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3/29/2018
Five Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges have decided to close, rather than comply with a requirement that they register with t -More- ……
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3/29/2018
China plans to increase oversight of the asset-management sector and to open a financial court in Shanghai to hear misconduct -More- ……
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3/29/2018
Experts expect an uptick in reporting-compliance enforcement under Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directiv -More- ……
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3/29/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority is prohibiting sales of binary options to retail investors and is limiting sale -More- ……
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3/28/2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has told Parliament she wants Northern Ireland represented in Brexit negotiations. -More- ……
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3/28/2018
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley urges regulators to develop a cross-border contingency plan to hand -More- ……
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3/28/2018
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is circulating a discussion draft of a bill that would modernize IRS technology and wou -More- ……
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3/28/2018
China is preparing to release a list of US products it will subject to retaliatory tariffs if the US adds tariffs on Chinese -More- ……
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3/27/2018
Artificial intelligence is used increasingly throughout the financial services industry, for applications such as fraud detec -More- ……
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3/27/2018
US broadband and telecommunications providers would be barred from receiving government subsidy funds if they do business wit -More- ……
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3/27/2018
Updates the European Commission is planning on group-claims legislation would broaden existing laws and expand opportunities -More- ……
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3/27/2018
The National Association for Fixed Annuities has dropped its appeal challenging the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule. -More- ……
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3/27/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has given a “high priority” to writing a rule governing the approval of exchange-trade -More- ……
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3/27/2018
The Brexit decision is almost two years old but UK financial firms say they still face numerous unanswered questions. -More- ……
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3/27/2018
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission warns that the lead underwriters for a number of initial public offerings ha -More- ……
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3/26/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission examiners are discovering that many tech startups that have entered the robo-adviser busin -More- ……
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3/26/2018
A spokeswoman for Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. -More- ……
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3/26/2018
The London office of Cambridge Analytica was searched by roughly 18 investigators after authorities obtained a warrant to ent -More- ……
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3/26/2018
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s claims administration system, or CAS, couldn’t respond quickly to the failure of a larg -More- ……
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3/23/2018
The London Stock Exchange’s LCH unit in Paris is expected to take the lead from London in clearing debt-repurchase agreements -More- ……
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3/23/2018
France wants to become a hub for initial coin offerings and plans to create a legal framework for managing them, Finance Mini -More- ……
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3/23/2018
The Basel Committee has announced it intends to revise its requirements for the capital that banks must hold in reserve, with -More- ……
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3/23/2018
European Parliament members are calling for derivatives dealers to be given more detailed rules on the terms they must offer -More- ……
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3/23/2018
The Federal Reserve’s regulatory chief, Randal Quarles, has asked derivatives firms for data to substantiate their claim that -More- ……
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3/23/2018
The European Commission’s proposed takeover of third-country clearinghouse oversight could prompt an adverse response from th -More- ……
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3/22/2018
The Federal Reserve should ease its rule requiring a bank to collect initial margin from an affiliate when the two institutio -More- ……
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3/22/2018
The European Commission proposed legislation Wednesday that would impose a 3% tax on the revenues of multinational online com -More- ……
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3/22/2018
Progress toward parity for women in executive ranks has been slow but could be accelerating as governments and major investme -More- ……
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3/22/2018
China appointed Guo Shuqing to run the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission that was recently formed by combinin -More- ……
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3/22/2018
It is appropriate for national regulators to modify Basel III standards for small community banks, said Andreas Dombret, a me -More- ……
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3/22/2018
The proposed Pan-European Personal Pensions should be approved by national authorities rather than the European Insurance and -More- ……
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3/22/2018
Countries are creating a hodgepodge of regulations governing cryptocurrencies. -More- ……
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3/22/2018
China is bracing for an announcement of trade sanctions by the US, widely expected to amount to as much as $60 billion in ann -More- ……
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3/22/2018
The US House Financial Services Committee has advanced a bill to make the Federal Reserve the primary regulator of the Volcke -More- ……
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3/21/2018
The European Parliament might be closer to handing the European Central Bank oversight of central clearing of euro-denominate -More- ……
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3/21/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is evaluating broker-dealer exams, said CEO Robert Cook. -More- ……
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3/21/2018
The US Supreme Court said shareholders can pursue claims regarding initial public offerings in state courts. -More- ……
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3/21/2018
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has concluded a single formula is impossible to measure and compare -More- ……
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3/20/2018
The China Banking Regulatory Commission has proposed guidance on how financial firms should manage and protect data. -More- ……
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3/20/2018
US firms might be unaware of the effect of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, says Andra Purkalitis of Bovill. -More- ……
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3/20/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay more than $83 million to three Merrill Lynch insiders who gave infor -More- ……
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3/20/2018
The EU has released a 10-page list of US products that could be targeted for retaliation if the EU is not exempted from tarif -More- ……
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3/19/2018
After the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit vacated the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, the department said will it -More- ……
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3/19/2018
The key risk for offshore banks doing business within the US is money laundering, says Vance Price, a deputy comptroller at t -More- ……
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3/19/2018
The Monetary Authority of Singapore might examine back-end technical systems of digital-token brokers for signs of money laun -More- ……
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3/19/2018
The US Labor Department should request an en banc review after an appeals court panel struck down the department’s fiduciary -More- ……
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3/19/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed on dual supervision of single -More- ……
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3/16/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission will answer questions regarding when an adviser is deemed to have custody of a client’ -More- ……
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3/16/2018
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering with the 2016 presidential election and for the NotP -More- ……
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3/16/2018
EU and US regulators have informally said they want to discuss EU legislation regarding how foreign derivatives clearinghouse -More- ……
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3/16/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce said she is open to agency work on a fiduciary rule. -More- ……
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3/16/2018
The latest draft of an EU tax on major US online companies with sales in Europe would impose a 3% tax on their turnover, acco -More- ……
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3/16/2018
The European Commission has proposed legislation allowing banks to roll over loans or to adjust loan terms without activating -More- ……
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3/16/2018
The Trump administration is considering pushing for Federal Reserve Governor Randal Quarles to become the next chairman of th -More- ……
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3/15/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a two-year pilot program to determine how “maker-taker” fees and rebates -More- ……
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3/15/2018
EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said during parliamentary debate he is “quite comfortable” with the idea of an “associati -More- ……
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3/15/2018
A bipartisan group of 11 state treasurers has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt a fiduciary standard at l -More- ……
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3/15/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed that open-end investment-management companies discuss liquidity programs -More- ……
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3/14/2018
President Donald Trump is considering tariffs on as much as $60 billion worth of goods from China, sources said. -More- ……
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3/14/2018
The European Commission has unveiled proposals to encourage cross-border trade in alternative investment funds within the EU, -More- ……
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3/14/2018
The US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has ruled the Labor Department was not arbitrary or capricious in the way it han -More- ……
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3/13/2018
A wide-ranging regulatory overhaul is set to give the People’s Bank of China additional powers to oversee financial firms and -More- ……
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3/13/2018
In a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton, 26 Democratic members of the House Financial Services -More- ……
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3/13/2018
The China Banking Regulatory Commission is changing rules for commercial banks to allow use of loss-absorbing debt instrument -More- ……
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3/13/2018
Eurozone finance ministers hope to work out final details for ending Greece’s bailout and to agree on proposals for overhauli -More- ……
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3/09/2018
People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan says regulatory changes are proving successful. -More- ……
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3/08/2018
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3/07/2018
The EU should lead the world in taxing global online companies by enacting early in 2019 a tax on sales within Europe, said F -More- ……
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3/07/2018
Financial firms in Europe are facing data-related regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation and the revis -More- ……
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The China Banking Regulatory Commission has reduced the amount of funds banks must hold to cover troubled loans, sources say. -More- ……
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3/06/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority says asset managers have been obliged to pay 34 million to compensate investors for calli -More- ……
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3/06/2018
Former Deutsche Bank trader Guillaume Adolph has been banned from the financial-services industry and has been fined 180,000 -More- ……
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The IRS plans to issue regulations clarifying restrictions on carried interest introduced by the recently passed US tax law. -More- ……
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Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Randal Quarles said at a banking conference that the Volcker rule is “a complex regulation that -More- ……
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3/05/2018
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has promised to work closely with regulators and further use of data analytics to c -More- ……
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3/05/2018
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3/05/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed a requirement that failed banks make more extensive disclosure of ass -More- ……
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3/05/2018
A letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission to industry associations spelling out tough conditions for bitcoin excha -More- ……
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3/02/2018
Inconsistent data reports produced by trading venues, approved publication arrangements and systematic internalizers to compl -More- ……
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3/02/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is opening investigations more quickly in response to a US Supreme Court ruling that r -More- ……
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3/02/2018
Regulatory sandboxes for financial startups require more global collaboration if the companies are to expand across borders, -More- ……
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3/02/2018
The US Senate is set to vote next week on a bill that would revise several sections of the Dodd-Frank Act. -More- ……
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US tariffs on steel could muddy renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, experts say. -More- ……
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3/01/2018
Blockchain developers should take the lead in dealing with cybersecurity, legal and interoperability issues raised by their t -More- ……
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3/01/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has proposed relieving broker-dealers of their responsibility to supervise regist -More- ……
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3/01/2018
Restitution ordered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority reached $66 million last year, 136% more than the 2016 tot -More- ……
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3/01/2018
An industry wish list of changes to the Dodd-Frank Act’s Volcker rule is being considered by the Federal Reserve and four oth -More- ……
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2/28/2018
Online rivals of traditional banks should get a voice in writing of EU standards for processing payments, said Rene Plank, de -More- ……
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2/28/2018
The Consumer Federation of America said that some financial firms are violating impartial-conduct standards of the Labor Depa -More- ……
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2/28/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission, led by Jay Clayton, has made incremental progress in revising regulations. -More- ……
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2/28/2018
The EU should regulate cryptocurrencies as it does other financial products, says Markus Ferber, a member of the European Par -More- ……
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2/28/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce said the SEC should create a regulatory system for “finders,” whom sm -More- ……
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2/28/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is cracking down on fraud and market manipulation and is set to file more than 10 ca -More- ……
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2/28/2018
Despite cost cutting by the Trump administration, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he has no intention of closing the d -More- ……
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2/28/2018
The European Parliament has criticized the Council of the EU and the European Commission for choosing a post-Brexit home for -More- ……
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2/27/2018
Lawmakers must revise rules governing oversight of clearinghouses so no disruption of clearing happens after Brexit, European -More- ……
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2/27/2018
Robert Jackson Jr., a Democratic member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has criticized suggestions that individual -More- ……
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2/27/2018
The Systemic Risk Council wrote to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to caution the government about gaps in oversight bec -More- ……
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2/27/2018
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission says its most important enforcement priority this year is fighting corporate -More- ……
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2/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s exam team is focusing on bad brokers in support of the Enforcement Division’s crackd -More- ……
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2/26/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said he is prioritizing adoption of a fiduciary rule that will “bring -More- ……
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2/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to toughen penalties for cryptocurrency violations that aren’t serious enough to -More- ……
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2/26/2018
The UK is preparing to change how it taxes some of the world’s biggest technology firms, such as Facebook and Google, said Me -More- ……
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2/26/2018
Financial firms want the European Banking Authority to clarify risk factors they must account for when bundling loans under ” -More- ……
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2/26/2018
The China Banking Regulatory Commission has streamlined procedures for foreign banks to do business and has clarified they ca -More- ……
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2/23/2018
European Parliament leaders have warned a proposal to freeze withdrawals from some accounts when a bank begins to fail could -More- ……
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2/23/2018
EU lawmakers say they will work to prevent turmoil with the US and the UK regarding derivatives trading. -More- ……
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2/23/2018
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s efforts to improve cybersecurity, risk management and privacy protection are undercut b -More- ……
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2/23/2018
Some approved publication arrangements, including Tradeweb Markets and Bloomberg, that are used to meet transparency requirem -More- ……
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2/23/2018
Japan Exchange Group expects about 70 companies to register as high-frequency traders. -More- ……
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2/23/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed by six months a liquidity rule for open-end funds. -More- ……
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2/19/2018
More companies are going public with dual-class shares, and stock exchanges should consider banning the structure or insistin -More- ……
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2/19/2018
State securities regulators have authority to enforce the US Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, and exercising that authority -More- ……
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2/19/2018
Many bills filed by EU lawmakers to revamp banks’ capital requirements call for an increase in the minimum leverage ratio. -More- ……
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2/19/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to vote Wednesday on whether firms will be required to disclose any cyberrisks -More- ……
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2/19/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority is expected to restrict the amount individuals can borrow to increase contracts -More- ……
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2/19/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has issued an investor alert that criminals are using its name and logo and the s -More- ……
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2/16/2018
Japan’s privacy commission is drafting instructions to provide higher data protection for EU citizens transferred to jobs in -More- ……
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2/16/2018
The Massachusetts Securities Division has filed charges against Scottrade, accusing the broker-dealer of violating impartial- -More- ……
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2/16/2018
The China Securities Regulatory Commission and Kazakhstan’s Astana Financial Services Authority have agreed to bolster cooper -More- ……
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2/16/2018
Dan Bucsa, an oversight official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has given a chilly reception to an executive’s -More- ……
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2/16/2018
Collateralized loan obligation funds won a significant legal battle when judges declared them exempt from a Dodd-Frank Act re -More- ……
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2/16/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted against the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange, which trades about 1% of US -More- ……
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2/15/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is moving to strengthen rules to deal with brokers who don’t pay arbitration awar -More- ……
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2/15/2018
The US House has voted to protect high-frequency traders’ proprietary source codes by requiring the Securities and Exchange C -More- ……
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2/15/2018
The Financial Stability Board should rely on “high-level principles,” rather than specific requirements, when it adopts inter -More- ……
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2/15/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Brian Quintenz says the cryptocurrency industry should police itself while offici -More- ……
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2/15/2018
The Japanese Financial Services Agency has warned Macau-based Blockchain Laboratory its initial coin offering in Japan violat -More- ……
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2/15/2018
Tariffs on imported steel President Donald Trump has threatened to impose would drive up prices for US consumers and would le -More- ……
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2/15/2018
Regulators should tread lightly regarding rules on automated trading, says Brian Quintenz, a Republican member of the Commodi -More- ……
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2/14/2018
Regulators are intensifying scrutiny of foreign exchange market liquidity and fragmentation, says Andrew Busch, chief market -More- ……
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2/14/2018
A study from the Plan Sponsor Council of America found that in 2016, about 70% of 401(k) sponsors employed a fiduciary advise -More- ……
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2/14/2018
National authorities facing resolution of a failed bank under global rules will find the task harder than implementing Basel -More- ……
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2/14/2018
China’s establishment of the Financial Stability and Development Committee, which oversees and aims to unify the four major r -More- ……
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2/14/2018
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi says “it’s not the ECB’s responsibility” to regulate or ban bitcoin. -More- ……
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2/13/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants a fiscal 2019 budget of $1.66 billion, up 3.5% from the amount in fiscal 2018. -More- ……
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2/13/2018
Deutsche Bank is settling Securities and Exchange Commission claims that the bank did not adequately police traders and sales -More- ……
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2/13/2018
The European Banking Authority has told bankers its overhaul of global capital standards is not definitive after industry par -More- ……
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2/13/2018
China is ramping up controls on overseas investing and borrowing by domestic insurers. -More- ……
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2/13/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority says some algorithmic traders are not applying mandatory safeguards to prevent market melt -More- ……
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2/13/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has said it won’t impose fines on financial professionals who self-report the improper -More- ……
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2/12/2018
Xu Zhong, chief researcher at the People’s Bank of China, wants the central bank to have more regulatory powers, saying its l -More- ……
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2/12/2018
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled managers of collateralized loan obligations are exempt -More- ……
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2/12/2018
Jay Clayton, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has told a Senate committee the SEC’s efforts to review and -More- ……
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2/12/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book framework covering nonmodelable risk fact -More- ……
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2/12/2018
When Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. -More- ……
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2/09/2018
Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret, Germany’s representative to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, says that in -More- ……
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2/09/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority has told credit rating agencies and trade repositories licensed in the EU they -More- ……
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2/09/2018
Regulations are hindering bank mergers that could raise profitability and make banks more efficient, European Central Bank Pr -More- ……
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2/09/2018
The European Central Bank is limiting the types of collateral banks must put forth when borrowing from eurozone central banks -More- ……
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2/08/2018
London Stock Exchange Group and CME European Trade Repository want the European Securities and Markets Authority responsible -More- ……
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2/08/2018
Attorney Brad Campbell says the US Labor Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are likely to simultaneously r -More- ……
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2/08/2018
The European Commission’s Capital Requirements Regulation proposal is raising concern it would not align with other regulatio -More- ……
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2/08/2018
The European Central Bank’s requirements for banks to set aside capital to cover bad loans might take effect April 1, the ECB -More- ……
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2/07/2018
The European Parliament voted to prohibit online retailers from using procedures that keep customers in other EU countries fr -More- ……
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2/07/2018
Congress may need to give the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission direct authorit -More- ……
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2/07/2018
The People’s Bank of China has released priorities and policies for 2018. -More- ……
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2/07/2018
The EU has told Apple that its $400 million deal to buy music-identification company Shazam must undergo antitrust review by -More- ……
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2/07/2018
Non-US banks with subsidiaries in the US say the Base Erosion and Anti-abuse Tax under President Donald Trump’s tax changes i -More- ……
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2/07/2018
The European Commission plans to wait to propose rules concerning blockchain technologies, such as smart contracts and digita -More- ……
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2/06/2018
The heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission are expected to testify at a -More- ……
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2/06/2018
Starting April 1, high-frequency traders in Japan will be subject to rules governing trading and risk-control records similar -More- ……
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2/06/2018
Rules adopted by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to prevent financial exploitation of elderly investors and vulne -More- ……
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2/06/2018
Commodity Futures Trading Commission officials say that even with a US-EU trading-venue equivalence deal, the threat of needi -More- ……
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2/06/2018
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi told the European Parliament the ECB’s supervisory arm is exploring possible fin -More- ……
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2/06/2018
The European Commission has drafted a bill to eliminate many procedures national regulators impose when investment funds else -More- ……
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2/05/2018
The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee plans to meet at the end of February to decide if it should change the way U -More- ……
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2/05/2018
A European Commission proposal would require crowdfunders to test the skills and risk tolerance of prospective investors befo -More- ……
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2/05/2018
A bill introduced in the Senate with bipartisan sponsorship would raise the debt-to-equity ratio that business-development co -More- ……
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2/05/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s swaps-reporting rules should conform to forthcoming global standards, said CFTC me -More- ……
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2/02/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. -More- ……
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2/02/2018
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a Senate bill easing regulatory burdens for small US community banks and regional b -More- ……
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2/02/2018
Europe’s revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive’s requirement that trading venues and investment firms make indiv -More- ……
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2/01/2018
The Japanese government is drafting legislation that would eliminate many tax and regulatory obstacles that discourage compan -More- ……
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2/01/2018
If the EU wants to encourage sustainable investing and achieve its environmental commitments under the Paris Accord, it will -More- ……
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2/01/2018
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a Senate committee that the process for identifying nonbank systemically important -More- ……
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2/01/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is expanding its effort to deal with brokers who violate its rules by taking a cl -More- ……
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2/01/2018
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the fact that the Consumer Financial Protection B -More- ……
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1/31/2018
European Parliament members are campaigning against European Commission proposals to hand more powers to the European Securit -More- ……
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1/31/2018
Paperwork and complex requirements backed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision should be scaled back and simplified -More- ……
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1/31/2018
The People’s Bank of China and the China Banking Regulatory Commission have written EU authorities to ask them to reconsider -More- ……
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1/31/2018
Because cryptocurrencies can be used in illicit activities, such as money laundering, payments should not be allowed to be an -More- ……
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1/30/2018
The House has approved legislation that includes the proposed Senior Safe Act, which encourages financial firms to train empl -More- ……
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1/30/2018
Reports that the Trump administration has proposed nationalizing or building a 5G wireless network were based on an outdated -More- ……
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1/30/2018
A $534 million loss at Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has drawn a compliance order from Japan’s Financial -More- ……
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1/29/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s new ruling, which comes into effect next month, that financial professionals mu -More- ……
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1/29/2018
The US International Trade Commission has blocked a request from Boeing to impose a 300% tariff on C Series jets made by Cana -More- ……
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1/29/2018
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has taken risk managers off guard by warning banks will be subject to additional capital -More- ……
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1/29/2018
When the Financial Stability Oversight Council exercises authority over the insurance industry, it should limit itself to iss -More- ……
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1/29/2018
To prevent China from spying on US mobile communications, the Trump administration is reviewing the possibility of nationaliz -More- ……
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1/29/2018
After discovering it had failed for more than seven years to act on hundreds of complaints about Wells Fargo’s creation of fa -More- ……
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1/26/2018
The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are expected to release a proposal to scrap or drastica -More- ……
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1/26/2018
The British government won’t announce soon what it wants in a post-Brexit deal for financial services because that “would not -More- ……
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1/26/2018
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he will be a candidate for president in the fall election, despite -More- ……
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1/26/2018
The European Banking Authority’s Dirk Haubrich told lawmakers banks will likely challenge a requirement allowing financial-te -More- ……
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1/26/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion issued a report aimed at helping SEC-regulate -More- ……
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1/26/2018
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about his top concerns regarding th -More- ……
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1/26/2018
Chinese government agencies are drafting a proposal to merge banking and insurance regulatory bodies, according to informed s -More- ……
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1/25/2018
Establishing an EU-wide digital tax is the best way to head off a patchwork of contradictory taxes enacted at the national le -More- ……
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1/25/2018
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is floating a proposal to ease parts of the Volcker rule’s trading restrictions -More- ……
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1/25/2018
The British government has told businesses and charities they need to prepare to comply with stringent data-protection requir -More- ……
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1/25/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told the Securities Regulation Institute the agency sees problems in -More- ……
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1/25/2018
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Jelena McWilliams, said she’d like to review an -More- ……
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1/25/2018
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said he is considering adopting as rules executive-pay provisions man -More- ……
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1/24/2018
European Parliament member Danuta Hubner is calling on the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Central -More- ……
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1/24/2018
South Korea’s plan to prevent money laundering through use of cryptocurrencies will be put forward in guidelines this month t -More- ……
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1/24/2018
The Senate has voted 84-13 to confirm Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. -More- ……
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1/24/2018
The European Banking Authority is delaying work on standards to calculate capital requirements of banks’ dependent units that -More- ……
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1/24/2018
How the White House deals with international financial regulations now that many appointees are in place is taking shape even -More- ……
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1/23/2018
Market participants are unclear which over-the-counter derivatives are equivalent to a trade on a trading venue and therefore -More- ……
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1/23/2018
China’s “Big Four” banks — Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Industrial and Commercial -More- ……
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1/23/2018
The Trump administration has imposed a 30% tariff on imported solar panels, which are made mostly in China, and a range of ta -More- ……
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1/23/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has debuted a toll-free help line to answer questions from small financial firms -More- ……
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1/22/2018
The British government is searching for a way to let borrowers in the UK continue to receive funding from the European Invest -More- ……
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1/22/2018
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire says Germany and France will submit proposals for regulation of cryptocurrencies to th -More- ……
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1/22/2018
Senate Republicans have sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to “formally clarify” that the standards enacted b -More- ……
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1/22/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have issued a joint statement underlining -More- ……
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1/22/2018
The Federal Reserve is working to relieve banks of “overly complex regulation” that doesn’t make the financial system any saf -More- ……
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1/22/2018
The China Securities Regulatory Commission says “rat trading” cases, in which fund managers front-run clients, dropped signif -More- ……
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1/19/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said that it expects revenue to fall to $822 million this year from $828.7 millio -More- ……
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1/19/2018
Investor-protection issues must be addressed before exchange-traded funds linked to bitcoin are allowed, according to the Sec -More- ……
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1/19/2018
Thirteen states have adopted the North American Securities Administrators Association’s model legislation requiring professio -More- ……
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1/19/2018
A European Commission report says that the value of nonperforming loans on banks’ balance sheets is declining but that the to -More- ……
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1/18/2018
For a second time, the Senate banking committee has confirmed the nomination of Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Rese -More- ……
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1/18/2018
A proposal under review by the EU could give some national bank regulators a vote on the European Systemic Risk Board, which -More- ……
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1/18/2018
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to review practices and policies in enforcement, supervision, rulemaking, m -More- ……
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1/18/2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will go to Paris on Friday to discuss issues confronting Europe, French President Emmanuel Ma -More- ……
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1/18/2018
President Donald Trump says terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement would get the US the “best deal” on the trade -More- ……
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1/18/2018
Nonbinding guidance supervisors give banks about capital requirements won’t be public unless release is mandatory under EU or -More- ……
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1/17/2018
Obstacles are slowing banks’ efforts to get nonperforming loans off balance sheets, according to the European Banking Authori -More- ……
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1/17/2018
The China Banking Regulatory Commission has strengthened rules, which take effect next year, governing counterparty risk for -More- ……
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1/17/2018
UK and EU banking rules are “completely aligned,” so a Brexit trade deal including financial services “could be agreed within -More- ……
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1/17/2018
The China Banking Regulatory Commission is addressing problems in the financial-services industry by cracking down on lax cor -More- ……
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1/16/2018
Some members of Congress are pressing AT&T to terminate all commercial relationships with Chinese mobile-communications compa -More- ……
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1/16/2018
The odds that Republicans will roll back parts of the Dodd-Frank Act this session are improving now that several Democrats su -More- ……
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1/15/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission needs to realign staff to build market-surveillance capability that keeps up with ra -More- ……
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1/15/2018
The European Parliament is expected to limit conditions under which regulators can require clearinghouses to relocate to the -More- ……
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1/15/2018
The European Banking Authority has issued final guidance for companies to report changes in regulatory capital because of imp -More- ……
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1/15/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, as well as international regul -More- ……
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1/15/2018
Efforts by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to increase the diversity of its arbitrators are starting to pay off. -More- ……
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1/12/2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly asked several fund companies to withdraw applications for bitcoin exchange- -More- ……
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1/12/2018
The Financial Stability Board is considering giving one global body authority over unique transaction identifiers and unique -More- ……
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1/12/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a report on shortcomings in transparency and disclosure of the wa -More- ……
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1/12/2018
Chinese regulators have ordered nonbank financial institutions to stop lending to the property and infrastructure sectors thr -More- ……
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1/11/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority is concerned about the quality of data received under the revised Markets in Fi -More- ……
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1/11/2018
Canada has asked the World Trade Organization to investigate US use of punitive duties, which Canada said violates internatio -More- ……
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1/11/2018
If the EU does not fully comply with a deal made with the US on mutual recognition of derivatives-clearinghouse oversight, th -More- ……
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1/11/2018
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he disagrees with the EU’s decision to include US territories American Samoa and Gu -More- ……
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1/11/2018
The US Chamber of Commerce will work hard for adoption of the Regulatory Accountability Act, which would establish requiremen -More- ……
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1/11/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority is warning companies about selling contracts for difference to retail investors, citing co -More- ……
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1/11/2018
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule in February on a challenge to the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, -More- ……
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1/11/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s amendments to rules on calculating the capital charge for credit valuation adjus -More- ……
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1/10/2018
A lack of competition persists in the bond-rating business as the three largest firms continue to dominate a decade after the -More- ……
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1/10/2018
The Capital Market Authority in Saudi Arabia has eased rules governing foreign institutional investors and has broadened the -More- ……
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1/10/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority has listed derivatives contracts affected by the Markets in Financial Instrumen -More- ……
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1/10/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority has postponed until March publication of information on which equities are subj -More- ……
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1/10/2018
Ant Financial issued 238 billion yuan in asset-backed securities last year, according to data from Bloomberg and China Securi -More- ……
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1/09/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority will examine securities-backed lines of credit this year to ensure risks are bein -More- ……
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1/09/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is putting brokers on notice that shifting clients between brokerage and advisory -More- ……
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1/08/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission used 61% of fiscal 2017 money earmarked for “mission-critical investments” in market -More- ……
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1/08/2018
Charles Randell, formerly a partner at law firm Slaughter and May, has been named incoming chairman of the UK Financial Condu -More- ……
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1/08/2018
A shortage of crucial regulatory personnel and technical resources puts the success of stress tests in doubt, according to th -More- ……
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1/05/2018
The European Banking Authority is trying to prevent more staff from leaving when it relocates to Paris after Brexit by restru -More- ……
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1/05/2018
Euronext, citing a need to maintain orderly markets after Brexit, has received a 30-month waiver from open-access rules under -More- ……
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1/05/2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has scheduled meetings of two advisory committees this month to review industry conc -More- ……
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1/05/2018
The UK Financial Conduct Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority have approved 15 firms in the UK and Fra -More- ……
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1/04/2018
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has explained rules, scheduled to take effect Feb. -More- ……
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1/04/2018
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will make the protection of personal information and data -More- ……
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1/04/2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s guidance leading up to implementation of the revised Markets in Financial Ins -More- ……
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1/04/2018
US Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said anti-money-laundering rules that require financial institutions to file sus -More- ……
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1/04/2018
House negotiators are fighting to keep a measure to kill the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule in an interim spending bill ne -More- ……
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1/04/2018
The People’s Bank of China and financial regulators have jointly adopted rules to intensify oversight of the bond market, sou -More- ……
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1/04/2018
Ewald Nowotny, a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council and head of Austria’s central bank, says bitcoin shoul -More- ……
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1/03/2018
Eurex has received a 30-month extension from German regulators to comply with futures trading and clearing rules under Europe -More- ……
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1/03/2018
The Chinese government is encouraging foreign investors to take advantage of a tax break available to those who invest profit -More- ……
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1/03/2018
The China Securities Regulatory Commission has adopted tougher disclosure, governance and environmental rules to get publicly -More- ……
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1/02/2018
An industry group wants the Securities and Exchange Board of India to eliminate the Commodities Transaction Tax to prevent fu -More- ……
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1/02/2018
The trade-reporting requirement is one of the biggest challenges as implementation of Europe’s revised Markets in Financial I -More- ……
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1/02/2018
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is searching for a successor to President William Dudley, who plans to retire midyear. -More- ……
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1/02/2018
While 2017 closed with the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule facing political headwinds, the rule has found some support from -More- ……
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1/02/2018
PwC failed to perform adequate auditing of Alabama’s Colonial Bank, which could have revealed a $2 billion fraud scheme that -More- ……
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12/29/2017
A Eurotrack survey found that 67% of the people in Britain say that the EU has the stronger position in Brexit negotiations. -More- ……
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12/29/2017
The China Banking Regulatory Commission is working to revise its licensing and supervision of foreign-funded bank activities -More- ……
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12/29/2017
Tokyo Stock Exchange is concerned about the increase in value of trading on dark pools, which has doubled since 2011, and is -More- ……
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12/28/2017
Richard Clarida, a professor at Columbia University and managing director at Pacific Investment Management, and former Federa -More- ……
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12/28/2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission are two regulators that could issue rules -More- ……
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12/28/2017
EU financial-services head Valdis Dombrovskis said the bloc will introduce a license that will allow financial-technology fir -More- ……
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12/27/2017
Zhou Qiang, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, said the rules governing bankruptcy courts should be overhauled to p -More- ……
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12/27/2017
A US Senate bill that would exempt small banks from the Volcker rule, which bars speculative trading using taxpayer-insured d -More- ……
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12/27/2017
If the UK embraces forward-looking policies, it can limit Brexit risks, said Nick Macpherson, a former Treasury official accu -More- ……
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12/26/2017
Xu Zhong, head of the People’s Bank of China research bureau, wrote in an editorial that local authorities will not be able t -More- ……
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