Regulation & Compliance
Crop Insurance Subsidies Should Be Reduced: Economist
U.S. farmers have collected a record $17 billion in crop insurance payments on drought-hit 2012 crops but the system could have spent half as much and still saved growers from ruinous losses, an ...
Enterprise Risk Reporting: The New ‘Form F’ Requirement Is Coming
In response to the 2008 financial crisis and, in particular, the AIG bailout, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted a significant revision to the model Insurance Holding ...
EU Weighs Trade Action to Improve Safety After Bangladesh Factory Tragedy
The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, in order to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a ...
U.S. Pragmatic Approach Leads U.N. Climate Talks: Wynn
A U.S. submission to U.N.-backed negotiations shows how a scaled-down global climate deal that falls short of a full treaty can be agreed in 2015. Much will depend on the United States, as the ...
Analysis: Angst Over European Union ‘Treaty Change’
If there are two words that tense the jaws of European policymakers and prompt a concerned sucking of teeth, they are treaty change. Like a nervous driver being told mid-route that he needs a ...
Moody’s, S&P Settle Lawsuits Over Debt Vehicle Ratings
Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's on Friday said they have settled two long-running lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for misleading investors about the safety of risky debt ...
Judge Won’t Block SEC Use Of Recording Against Goldman’s Tourre
Three years after Fabrice Tourre became the face of a major U.S. regulatory action against Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a newly uncovered phone recording is giving the Securities and Exchange Commission ...SEC Says Man Used JOBS Act To Lure Investors Into Fraud Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday filed charges against a man accused of luring investors into a fraudulent investment scheme by promising big returns under a provision of the 2012 ...