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Wall Street's most high-profile securities firm is being drawn further into the government's insider-trading investigation. Federal criminal authorities are investigating whether a top Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Read more
| Posted by SUSAN PULLIAM And MICHAEL ROTHFELD on Feb 29, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - The Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world's biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark rate, according to a person familiar with the situation. While the Justice Department's inquiry into how the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, is set had been known, the criminal aspect of the probe was not. Read more
| Posted by Carrick Mollenkamp on Feb 28, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - Japan's securities watchdog is investigating a small Tokyo-based broker, ITM Securities Co, over its possible role in a scandal involving the suspected disappearance of more than $2 billion in corporate pension funds, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Read more
| Posted by Reporting by Noriyuki Hirata; Editing by Ian Geoghegan and Muralikumar Anantharaman on Feb 27, 2012 | ||
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A report released Wednesday found that patient wait times are too long in Alberta, and doctors who advocate for the care of their patients face widespread intimidation. Patients wait too long in emergency rooms and doctors dare not advocate for patients if they want to keep their jobs, according to a report on Alberta's healthcare system. Read more
| Posted by CBC - Canadian Press on Feb 23, 2012 | ||
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Jonathan Macey of Yale Law School explains why the Dodd-Frank bill might not have prevented the financial crisis, but will create jobs for regulators and lawyers. View Video Read more
| Posted by The Economist online on Feb 23, 2012 | ||
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U.S. securities regulators have warned a former top architect of the structured-finance boom that they are considering civil charges alleging he misled investors in a mortgage-bond deal that imploded, people familiar with the situation said. Read more
| Posted by JEAN EAGLESHAM on Feb 21, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators have widened their inquiry into the trillion-dollar market for exchange-traded funds, according to a person familiar with the matter. Prompted by a delay in a big trade at a popular ETF, the U. Read more
| Posted by Jessica Toonkel, Carrick Mollenkamp and Cezary Podkul on Feb 21, 2012 | ||
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Big portions of the financial reform law are set to go into effect this year. Intended to make corporate practices transparent, the law itself is anything but. The government has yet to spell out the details of most of the 400 new regulations it imposes. Read more
| Posted by Karen Weise on Feb 20, 2012 | ||
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Vindication. The one word to aptly sum up the tumultuous rollercoaster ride for whistleblower and ex-CEO Michael Woodford after hearing news break yesterday that Japanese prosecutors had arrested three of Olympus’ top executives and four of its consultants for a $1. Read more
| Posted by Mandy Moody on Feb 20, 2012 | ||
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A group of traders and brokers successfully managed to manipulate an interest rate that affects loans around the world, one of the banks being investigated has told regulators. In a court filing in Ottawa, Canada's Competition Bureau said a bank it didn't identify has told the agency's investigators that people involved in the alleged scheme "were able to move" interest rates. Read more
| Posted by JEAN EAGLESHAM, PAUL VIEIRA and DAVID ENRICH on Feb 17, 2012 | ||
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