Government
Cohen’s SAC To Pay $616 M In SEC Insider Trade Settlement
Hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen's firm is paying $615.7 million to settle charges that it improperly traded in two stocks, in what is the largest-ever, insider trading settlement, U.S. securities ...
President-To-President: Obama, China’s Xi Discuss Cyber Security In Phone Call
President Barack Obama took mounting U.S. concerns about computer hacking straight to China's president on Thursday in a sign of how seriously the United States takes the threat of cyber attacks ...
JPMorgan Senate Report Reveals Internal Discussion Of Email ‘Sensitivity’
JPMorgan Chase & Co. risk managers tried so hard in 2012 to get around international capital rules that they viewed their own discussions as too sensitive for email, according to a Senate report ...Legislators Propose Stretching Out NFIP Rate Hike Timeline to Assist Sandy Victims
A group of U.S. representatives from New York are proposing a bill that would stretch out the National Flood Insurance Program's premium increase timeline. On Monday, U.S. Reps. Michael G. Grimm ...
NYC Adopts Tough Jobless-Discrimination Law
New York City lawmakers passed the nation's most far-reaching measure Wednesday to protect out-of-work job applicants from discrimination, allowing job-seekers to sue if they believe they have been ...Pentagon Forming Cyber Teams To Prevent Attacks
The Defense Department is establishing a series of cyber teams charged with carrying out offensive operations to combat the threat of an electronic assault on the United States that could cause major ...U.S. Plans To Let Spy Agencies Scour Americans’ Finances: Reuters Report
The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, ...