Regulation & Compliance
SEC Open for Biz During Early Weeks of Shutdown
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would continue reviewing IPO applications and monitoring markets as normal in the early weeks of a government shutdown, but market players are increasingly ...
Moving Beyond Golf Balls and Diapers in Cleaning Up Energy Disasters
Diaper liner, sawdust, golf balls and shredded tires -- these are some of the items used to try and contain the oil and nuclear disasters that marked the end of this century's first decade and the ...
China Testing Free Market with New Shanghai Financial Services Zone
Citigroup Inc. and Bank of China Ltd. said they will participate in Shanghai's free-trade zone as the Chinese government inaugurated the 11-square-mile experiment in more relaxed financial and ...
Mississippi Sues Federal Government to Stop Flood Insurance Rate Increases
The Mississippi Department of Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to try to block rates from increasing Oct. 1 in the National Flood Insurance Program. State Insurance ...
Federal Trade Commission Moves Closer to Studying ‘Patent Trolls’
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday took another step toward a comprehensive study of "patent trolls" - companies in the business of buying and asserting patents - to see if they are hurting ...
U.S. Federal Housing Administration to Tap $1.7B in Taxpayer Funds
The U.S. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) said on Friday that it will draw $1.7 billion in cash from the U.S. Treasury to help cover losses from troubled loans, marking the first time in its ...
On the Regulation and the Facts
There was much coverage last month on the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but it was also the fifth anniversary of the U.S. government's intervention in AIG. While the issues at ...
UN Report: Global Warming Has Slowed; Sea Levels to Rise More Quickly
Global warming has slowed since 1998 even though humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases are almost certainly to blame for damaging the atmosphere. That's according to a 36-page summary of a report ...