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Banks Get Small Win On Accounting Standards

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Aba, Fasb, Lynn Turner, Bankers, Facebook, Ed Perlmutter, Banks, Financial Crisis, Sec, Chamber of Commerce, Systemic Risk, Accounting, American Bankers Association, Business News

A House panel approved a provision Thursday that calls for a new oversight body dominated by bank regulators to advise on accounting rules for banks, ...

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John Elway Was Paid To Attract Investors To Alleged Ponzi Scheme

Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver

Read More: Speed of Wealth LLC, John Elway Investors, John Elway Ponzi Scheme, Security and Exchange Commission, Sec, Slideshow, Denver Ponzi Scheme, Elway Ponzi, John Elway Sec, John Elway Ponzi, John Elway, Denver News

Speed of Wealth LLC, the Centennial financial firm that was accused Monday of orchestrating a $30 million Ponzi scheme targeting green investors, had ...

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Banking Sector Fix In Six Steps: Roger Lowenstein

bloomberg.com | Roger Lowenstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Standard and Poor, Banking Crisis, Aig, Sec, Ben Bernanke, Banking Industry, Business News

Financial reform seems to be flailing. Legislation has been proposed, but it is complicated and diffuse. Most of the proposed fixes are incremental ch...

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Beazer Homes CEO's Bonus Targeted By SEC

AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Maynard Jenkins, Ian Mccarthy, Beazer-Homes, Sec, Wells Notice, Business News

BOSTON — Federal regulators may try to collect bonus money awarded to the top executive of Beazer Homes USA Inc. covering periods when the homeb...

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SEC Accuses Denver Area Firm Of Orchestrating Ponzi Scheme That Victimized Green Investors

AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Donna McKelvy, Sec, Denver Ponzi Scheme, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wayde McKelvy, Denver News

DENVER — Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors ...

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Moneyed Interests Lining Up For Battle Over Accounting Standards

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity, Tohmatsu, Council of Institutional Investors, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, Economy, Financial Services Roundtable, American Council for Capital Formation, Reform, National Association of Home Builders, Ernst and Young, Accf, Financial Executives International, Jim Turley, Center for Audit Quality, Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, National Multi Housing Council, Paul Volcker, Real Estate, Accounting, American Bankers Association, Sec, Aba, Calpers, Fasb, Financial Reform, Investment Company Institute, Institute of Management Accountants, US SEC, National Apartment Association, Grant Thornton Llp, Ed Perlmutter, Kpmg, Recession, Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee, Deloitte Touche, Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, Perlmutter, Real Estate Roundtable, Banks, Emails, Politics News

In the midst of what was supposed to be a Congressional push for increased financial regulation and accountability, a powerful coalition of moneyed in...

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Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, John McCain, Congress, Fdic, Hank Paulson, Liquidity, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, Ben Bernake, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Chris Dodd, Democrats, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Bank for International Settlements, Senate, Forum of Financial Stability, Treasury, Washington, Comptroller of the Currency, Central Banks, Sec, Global-Financial-Markets, Us, Sheila Bair, Republicans, Politics News

Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?

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Jerome O'Hara And George Perez: Ex-Madoff Programmers ARRESTED For Alleged Cover-Up

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Arrests, Jerome O'Hara, Madoff, Madoff Programmers, Jerome Ohara, Maddoff IT Staff, Sec, Madoff Coders, Ex-Madoff Programmers, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, George Perez, Jerome O'hara and George Perez, Business News

NEW YORK — Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's m...

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Roomy Khan, Galleon Insider Trading Informant, Tipped Off Several Other Hedge Funds, Destroyed Evidence

nytimes.com | REUTERS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Roomy Khan, Sec, Galleon Group, Galleon Hedge Fund, Securities Fraud, Roomy Khan Plea, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roomy Khan, one of several former traders cooperating with the prosecution of the biggest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case, t...

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How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress And The SEC

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Paul Kanjorski, Chuck Shumer, Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Schumer, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Floyd Abrams, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Sec, Chris Dodd, Huffington Posts Investigative Fund, Business News

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here. When the n...

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The Importance of Schedule Strength in Sports

Wayne Winston | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports

Read More: Pac-10, Sec, Giants, Nba, Cardinals, Acc, Schedule Strength, Dodgers, Nets, Saints, Wizards, Sports News

The goal of my posts will be to show you how simple mathematical concepts can often lead to important insights about the burning sports questions of the day.

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SEC Instant Replay Relies On Old Technology

FanHouse | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports

Read More: SEC Referees, SEC Blown Calls, SEC Replay Technology, SEC Instant Replay, LSU Tigers, Alabama Crimson Tide, Sec, College Football, Sports News

High definition television has revolutionized the sports viewing experience. What it hasn't revolutionized is the SEC's ability to use high definition...

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Proposals In House Would Curb 'Too Big To Fail' Banks, Firms

Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fed, Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Sec, Larry Summers, Too Big to Ail, Lobbying, Bank of America, Lobbyists, Chase, Paulson, Economy, Metlife, Regulation, JP Morgan, Obama, Democrats, Prudential, Recession, Barney Frank, House, Senate, House Financial Services Committee, Henry Paulson, White House, Treasury, Hank Paulson, Kanjorski, JP Morgan Chase, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...

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Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

David A. Love | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Capitalism, Wall Street, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Bernard Madoff, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Healthcare, Blue Dog Democrats, Corruption, Citibank, Bank Bailout, Stock Market, Corporations, Banking Crisis, Sec, Corporate Greed, Citigroup, Regulation, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Deregulation, New York, Criminal Justice System, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg.

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LSU Vs. Alabama: Crimson Tide Beat Tigers 24-15, Win SEC West

AP | JOHN ZENOR | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Sec, College Football, LSU Alabama, Alabama Crimson Tide, LSU Tigers, LSU vs. Alabama, Alabama LSU, Alabama vs. LSU, Alabama Win, Alabama Score, Alabama Beats LSU, Home News

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Julio Jones left defenders grasping at his heels and Alabama's defense was typically immovable. The Crimson Tide is riding th...

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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Accounting Standards Board, Barney Frank, Sec, Mark to Market Accounting, Ed Perlmutter, Brad Miller, Business News

Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Grea...

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U.S. Mortgage Fraud Remains at Epidemic Levels

Pat Choate | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Sars, Banning, Sec, Accountability, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Fbi, Mortgage Fraud, Business News

Nothing can better send a message to the world that the United States is serious about restoring the integrity of its money industry than by banning from it the prominent people who deceived the nation and the world.

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JPMorgan Settlement: Bank To Pay SEC Over $700M Over Charges Of Illegal Payments

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Charles LeCroy, JPMorgan Settlement, JPMorgan Chase, Municipal Bonds, Sec, Jefferson County Alabama, Douglas MacFaddin, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $75 million in fines and forfeit $647 million in fees to settle federal regulators' charges ...

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House Panel Votes To Permanently Exempt Small Firms From Part Of Post-Enron Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Worldcom, Scott Garrett, Arthur Levitt, Barney Frank, Enron, Obama Administration, Investors, John Adler, Rahm Emanuel, Mary Schapiro, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Financial Crisis, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

A House panel voted Wednesday to permanently exempt more than half of all publicly traded companies from a seven-year-old post-Enron measure designed ...

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Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Mtglq, Cases, Hank Paulson, Lawsuits, Middle Class, Suits, Goldman Sachs Subsidiaries, Housing Crisis, Working Class, Goldman Sachs, Judge Roger Efremsky, Lenders, Home Prices, Foreclosure, Subprime, Repossession, Roger Efremsky, Ge, Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Securities Exchange Commission, WMC Mortgage Corp, Judge William Aslup, Wall Street, GE Money, Wiliam Aslup, Henry Paulson, Banks, Sec, Subsidiaries, Business News

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

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The Secrets To Goldman Sachs' Success: Contrary Bets, Predatory Lending, Government Connections, Offshore Tax Havens

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Paulson, Regulation, Recession, Obama, Reform, Lloyd Blankfein, Mortgage Related Swaps, Mortgages, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Mississippi, Bailout, Predatory Lending, Securities Act of 1933, Blankfein, Hank Paulson, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Goldman Sachs Mortgage, Real Estate, Wall Street, Tax Havens, Housing Market, Blue Chips, Calpers, Derivatives, Moody's, Offshore, Tim Geithner, High Yield Bonds, Hedges, Barack Obama, Nyse, Cayman Islands, Banks, Sec, Subprime Mortgage, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON -- In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but n...

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The $21.2 Billion Halloween Mask

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Top Producer, Private Wealth Management, Madoff, Financial Scandal, Norb Vonnegut, Acrimoney, Business News

The season makes me wonder: What does it take to become a Halloween mask?

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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 1 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Excerpt, Book Excerpt, Economics, Books, Economic Crisis, Aig, Business, Eliot Spitzer, Berkshire Hathaway, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Gen Re Securities, Warren Buffett, Sec, The Snowball, Alice Schroeder, Business News

Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.

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SEC Changes the Game on CEO Succession

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Whole Foods, Sec, Ken Lewis, CEO Succession, Verizon, Shareholder Rights, Bank of America, Succession Planning, Integral Advisors, Bruce J. Sherman, Coca-Cola, Best Buy, Business News

Shareholders can now challenge the board to learn more about plans for CEO succession. This is one more action that will make it less likely that the CEO can fill the board with good old boys.

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Goldman Sachs Defends Trading Practices: Dark Pools, Flash Trading, Short Selling

Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Financial Reform, Dark Pools, Regulation, Bankers, Short Selling, Goldman, Investors, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Flash Trading, Wall Street, Finance, Trading Practices, Sec, Trading, Financial Regulation, Business News

In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...

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