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Shahien Nasiripour

AIG's Derivatives Unit Under Fire For Alleged Risk Failures

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 06.12.2013 | Business
Read More: AIG Financial Products, Aig New York Dfs, Ben Lawsky AIG, Aig Benjamin Lawsky, Aig Derivatives, Ben Lawsky Dfs, AIG Bailout, Aig Ben Lawsky, Aig New York State, Benjamin Lawsky, Business News

AIG Financial Products, the derivatives unit that nearly toppled the insurance company in 2008, is under fresh scrutiny after regulators alleged it ma...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Top Regulator Weighs Crackdown On Private-Equity Firms

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business
Read More: Annuities, New York State Department of Financial Services, Ben Lawsky Annuities, Ben Lawsky Dfs, Ben Lawsky Private Equity, Apollo Global Management, Private Equity, Benjamin Lawsky, Business News

New York's top financial regulator is drafting new regulations designed to crack down on private-equity firms that own insurance companies, a move tha...

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How Mortgage Servicing Has Come to Resemble Professional Wrestling (But Not As Much Fun)

Joel Sucher | Posted 06.14.2013 | Business
Read More: Lender Placed Insurance, QBE Insurance, Assurant Insurance, Litton Loan Servicing, Mortgage Servicers, Intent to Accelerate, Western Union, Heels, Benjamin Lawsky, Property Inspections, Works, New York Department of Financial Services, Baby Faces, Force Placed Insurance, Andrew Cuomo, Professional Wrestling, Broker Price Options, Hamp, Gimmicks, Foreclosure, BPO's, Dual Tracking, Mortgage Loan Modifications, Chris Wyatt, Business News
Joel Sucher

As a long-time fan of professional wrestling I've come to see how much of mortgage servicing resembles what goes on in the ring. Like wrestling the servicing business is full of "works," "gimmicks," "heels and baby faces," so let me explain.

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Ben Hallman

Insurance Company Settles HUGE Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.21.2013 | Business
Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Video, Assurant, New-York-Department-of-Financial-Services, Assurant Consent Order, Home Insurance, Force-Placed-Insurance, Benjamin Lawsky, Assurant Settlement, Home Insurance Premiums, Business News

NEW YORK -- An insurance company with close financial ties to JPMorgan Chase agreed Thursday to pay a $14 million fine to New York's top financial reg...

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Is This Bank Connected To Iran?

Reuters | Posted 10.18.2012 | Business
Read More: Deutsche Bank, Treasury Department, Video, Money Laundering, Reuters, Iran Sanctions, Iran, Justice Department, Standard Chartered, New York Superintendent of Financial Services, Benjamin Lawsky, Business News

CHICAGO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are investigating Deutsche Bank and several other global banks over business linked to Iran, Sudan and ...

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Dear Banks, Hiding Ties To Iran Will Cost You

Reuters | Posted 10.13.2012 | Business
Read More: Investec, Video, Money Laundering, Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group, J.P. Morgan Chase, Department of Financial Services, Reuters, Standard Chartered, Justice Department, Lloyds Banking Group, Benjamin Lawsky, Business News

* Bank, New York regulators talked settlement amount-sources * Bank prepares hearing to defend New York license Wednesd...

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'Rogue' New York Regulator Benjamin Lawsky Sets Feds Scrambling In Standard Chartered Laundering Case

Mark Gongloff | Posted 10.10.2012 | Business
Read More: Money Laundering, Standard Chartered Money Laundering, New York State Department of Financial Services, Standard Chartered Bank, New York State DFS, Standard Chartered, Standard Chartered Laundering, Benjamin Lawsky, Business News
Mark Gongloff

A little-known bank regulator from a young New York agency might just shame federal regulators into getting tougher with the banks. Or he should, anyway.

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A Foreclosure Film in the Making Awaits Final Scene

Joel Sucher | Posted 08.24.2012 | Politics
Read More: Ocwen Financial, Litton Loan Servicing, Lew Ranieri, Servicers, Fannie Mae, Pacific Street Films, Benjamin Lawsky, Deutsche Bank, New York Department of Financial Services, Fhfa, Goldman Sachs, Freddie Mac, Joel Sucher, Foreclosure Diaries, Securitization, John Devaney, Chris Wyatt, Politics News
Joel Sucher

What do an insurance agent in Tennessee, a homemaker in Ohio, a private investigator from Wisconsin and a helicopter stunt pilot in Hollywood have in common?

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