Regulation & Compliance
Rollins To Head New Public Risk Services Group At AIR Worldwide
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced that John Rollins will lead a new consulting group--Public Risk Services—supporting the needs of public sector institutions and stakeholders ...China to Strengthen Regulation of Financial Products
China will strengthen supervision of new financial products, particularly ones with complex structures and high leverage, to combat potential risks to the banking sector, the industry's regulator ...
Should Tweeting CEOs Be Muzzled or Glorified?
If the CEO of a public company posts good news about the company's booming business on Facebook, does that same CEO have an obligation to post information about a subsequent business decline? The ...
UK’s New Regulators Take Over; FCA Now Responsible For Insurance Sector
In a move that is certainly not an April Fool's Day joke, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), which has been responsible for regulating the UK's financial services industry since 1997, including ...
Former Freddie Mac Executives Lose Bid To Toss SEC Lawsuit
Former Freddie Mac chief executive Richard Syron and two other one-time executives lost their bid to escape a U.S. regulator's lawsuit accusing them of misleading investors about the company's ...
U.S. Insurance Regulators Renew Training Pact with Chinese Regulators
U.S. insurance regulators will continue a program of information sharing and cooperation that helps their counterparts in China learn about insurance regulatory practices in the U.S. The National ...
Apple-Samsung Case Challenges Sealing of Trade Secrets
A federal appeals court aggressively questioned the scope of the public interest and trade secrets at a hearing on Tuesday over document secrecy in Apple Inc.'s patent litigation against Samsung ...Judge Delays Ruling On SAC’s ‘No Admission’ Settlement With SEC, Pending Citigroup Outcome
A judge on Thursday put off a decision on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed $602 million insider trading settlement with a unit of SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund, potentially ...