Securities Regulation
Insider Options Trades Seen in 25% of U.S. M&A Deals: Research
About a quarter of U.S. merger and acquisition deals have insider-related options trading activity before official announcements, but only a fraction are being investigated by regulators, according ...
Business Urging Delaware Lawmakers Not to Block ‘Loser-Pays’ Bylaws
Big Business is lobbying Delaware lawmakers for corporate bylaws to shift legal fees to shareholders who sue and lose, which legal experts say could curtail a booming type of investor class actions. ...
Allianz SE’s El-Erian: Fed Policies May Have Produced New Bubble
Investors might be surprised to learn that they have a lot riding on something that they pay very little attention to: macro-prudential regulation, or what central banks and other government agencies ...Prudential, AIG Get Ex-Connecticut Insurance Regulator As Federal Overseer
The U.S. Federal Reserve has hired a former state insurance commissioner to help it oversee non-bank financial firms that a council of regulators identified for tougher scrutiny last year. Thomas ...
Governance Concerns Raised Over Bonus for CEO of China’s JD.com Ahead of U.S. IPO
China's No. 2 e-commerce company, JD.com Inc, awarded Chief Executive and founder Richard Liu a one-off, share-based bonus of $591 million as the company prepared for its U.S. IPO, giving rise to ...
FINRA Probing Abusive Trades Based on Mathematical Algorithms
Wall Street's self-regulator is cracking down on abusive trades made on the basis of mathematical algorithms and currently has some 170 ongoing investigations into the subject, its chief said on ...
Madoff Victims Seek $40B from Compensation Fund
The overseer of a U.S. fund to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme on Tuesday said he has received roughly 51,700 claims seeking to recoup more than $40 billion, both totals far ...
Class Action Threat: Corp. Bylaws Can Make Suing and Losing Investors Pay Legal Costs, Says Delaware Supreme Ct.
Delaware's Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the company's legal costs, potentially upending the economics of a booming type ...