Posts Tagged ‘ The Sec ’

Citigroup finds obeying the law is too darn hard 

November 5, 2011
Citigroup finds obeying the law is too darn hard 

  Five times since 2003 the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Citigroup Inc.’s main broker-dealer subsidiary of securities fraud. On each occasion the company’s SEC settlements have followed a familiar pattern. Citigroup neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s claims. And the company consented to the entry of either a court injunction or an SEC [...]

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Bank of America kept AIG legal threat under wraps 

August 31, 2011
Bank of America kept AIG legal threat under wraps 

The American International Group (AIG) building is seen in New York's financial district March 16, 2009. Top Bank of America Corp lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources familiar with [...]

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Thai fund managers’ self-regulation to buoy standards

July 30, 2009

Thai fund managers are working with the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission to create an agency to regulate their own industry to strengthen enforcement and boost public confidence, their trade group said. The new agency, to be formed within two years, will take over some supervisory roles including licensing and penalties, Voravan Taraphum, president of [...]

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Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say

July 23, 2009
Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say

Office staff work at Rio Tinto Group’s Shanghai office in Shanghai, China China’s detention of Rio Tinto Group executives amid allegations of espionage and bribery should serve as a reminder to foreign companies that they may also risk prosecution by US enforcement agencies, lawyers said. “It’s not just domestic law that may be involved,” said [...]

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Countrywide exec often warned about mortgage risks

June 9, 2009

John P. McMurray made it clear to his Countrywide Financial Corp bosses that they were playing a dangerous game with risk. But they didn’t listen. Even so, he is being called a hero.Warnings from McMurray are cited often in a lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against Countrywide’s co-founder Angelo Mozilo and [...]

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SEC to spend 2010 US funds on technology, ‘forensic analysis’

May 8, 2009

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to spend new funding sought by the Obama administration for 2010 on technology for investigating fraud and forensic analysis, a White House budget report said. President Barack Obama’s spending plan for the year starting October 1, released Thursday, boosts SEC funding 6.87 percent to US$1.03 billion from [...]

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‘Uncle Sam’ offers work, stress balls for Wall Street’s jobless

April 26, 2009
‘Uncle Sam’ offers work, stress balls for Wall Street’s jobless

For hundreds of unemployed Wall Street professionals, the “stress test” began at 8 a.m. That’s when former traders, analysts and controllers holding recently polished resumes lined up inside a midtown Manhattan office building Friday for the start of a job fair where Uncle Sam was the primary employer.“They are hiring,” said John Willis, 46, who [...]

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Stanford CFO declines to cooperate in fraud probe

March 3, 2009

James M. Davis, the second-highest ranking executive at the Stanford Financial Group of companies, refused to cooperate in the US investigation of an alleged US$8 billion Ponzi scheme at the firms. “I hereby assert my privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution and decline to testify or provide an accounting,” Davis [...]

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Stanford conned clients with ‘no worry’ promise, rates

February 20, 2009
Stanford conned clients with ‘no worry’ promise, rates

A worker posts a temporary closure notice at Stanford Financial Group’s offices in Houston, Texas, US, on February 17, 2009. Stanford International Bank Ltd., accused by US regulators of defrauding investors, relied on more than high interest payments to sell US$8 billion of what it called certificates of deposit. The Antigua Bank, founded by Stanford [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...