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U.S. Accounting Regulator Says Auditor Marketing Practices Deceptive
A top U.S. audit regulator is sounding the alarm over what she fears may be a false stamp of approval that some accounting firms are using as they market themselves to potential clients. A growing ...
Hartford Financial in Talks to Sell Japan Unit to Orix
Orix Corp., a Japanese finance and leasing firm, said it is in talks to buy Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.'s unit in the country. Nothing has been decided on the purchase, Tokyo-based Orix ...
Listening to the Market: Insurance Products That Fit Today’s Customer Needs and Demands
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The case for innovative insurance products How many cell phones have you owned? Computers? Cars? Appliances? Televisions? Do you still...
U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Wind Down Fannie Mae in Five Years
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would continue paying all of their profits to the Treasury for the next five years under bipartisan Senate legislation designed to wind down the U.S.-owned mortgage ...
Businesses, Insurers Disagree on Boston Bombing Payouts
Some businesses that reported financial losses as a result of the Boston Marathon explosions are still wrangling with their insurance companies over compensation or have had claims denied outright as ...
AFG Terminates Tender Offer for National Interstate Shares
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on March 14 stated that it would grant a motion for preliminary injunction enjoining the consummation of the tender offer of Great American ...
New York Grabs ‘Shaky’ Lead Over London As Top Financial Center
New York replaced London as the world's leading financial center for the first time, after the City was rocked by a series of scandals and questions over the U.K.'s place in the European Union. New ...
As Farmers Sign Up for 2014, Crop Insurance Reformers Fume
U.S. farmers last week finalized their crop insurance plans for spring planting with critics of the government-subsidized program saying insurers are set up for a bonanza after passage of the new ...
U.S. SEC Charges Brokers in Scheme to Profit From Terminally Ill Through VA Sales
U.S. securities regulators filed civil charges against two brokers and seven others, saying they were involved in a scheme to profit from the death of terminally ill patients through variable annuity ...