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Congress Considering Banning Some TARP Execs From Public Companies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Jon Cuneo, Countrywide, Nell Minow, Lifetime Ban, Barney Frank, Financial Crisis, Sec, Alan Grayson, Harvey Pitt, Securities and Exchange Commission, John Coffee, Accountability, Business News

The White House unveiled the outlines of its new ground rules for the financial game Wednesday, but seemed resigned to leave the same failed players o...

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Madoff Scald: SEC Inspector-General Meets With Fraudster

Jun. 18, 2009 | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

Read More: David Kotz, Sec, SEC Inspector-General, Madoff, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Securities Exchange Commission, Madoff Scandal, Business News

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Admitted fraudster Bernard Madoff, the mastermind of history's biggest Ponzi scheme, had a three-hour meeting with the Securities an...

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Madoff: The Three Amigos

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

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

What do Bernie Madoff, Ahmed Ghailani, and a captured Somali pirate have in common? They're all locked in the same New York prison.

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Is the SEC Awake?

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Ponzi, Sec, Top Producer, Financial Scandals, Madoff, Norb Vonnegut, Acrimoney, Business News

The Securities and Exchange Commission barred Bernard Madoff from the securities business. We all feel safer now? Yeah, right.

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Traders, Lap Dances, And Pensions: Overlooked Bloomberg Reports

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Chicago Transit Authority, Bankruptcy, Bloomberg, Pension Funds, Wall Street Traders, Sentinel Management Group, Business News

We recently came across two criminally overlooked stories from Bloomberg that cover some very impressive ground. In a report from March, Bloomberg t...

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CHICAGO SPORTS WEBIO Founder Sued By SEC

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev and Becky Yerak | | Posted 07.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Sec, Chicago Sports Webio, Mike North, Home News

CHICAGO SPORTS WEBIO : Mike North's business partner in a new Internet sports-talk station in Chicago is a convicted felon who has filed for bankrupt...

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Wall Street Reform: Regulators and Lawmakers Prepare for Turf War

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Congressional Oversight, Regulatory Reform, Systemic Risk Regulator, Wall Street Regulation, Tim Geithner, Financial Regulation, Sec, Business News

Rather than work together to improve the system, regulatory reform could become a classic political turf war. The problem is that once someone has the ball, he's reluctant to give it up.

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Paying The Price Of Fragmented Regulation

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Sec, Regulatory Reform, Federal Reserve, Eliot Spitzer, Fdic, Vikram Pandit, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Regulatory Capture, Ken Lewis, Banking Regulatory Reform, Tim Geithner, Treasury, Robert Teitelman, Sheila Bair, Business News

In the run-up to testimony by Bank of America chief Ken Lewis on the Merrill Lynch & Co. affair, e-mails are suddenly leaking from the Beltway colander, though their ultimate source, strangely enough, is that opaque wonderland, the Federal Reserve.

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GM Means get Moving

Charlie Cray | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Gm, General Motors, GM Bankruptcy, Obama-General-Motors, Business News

Everyone wants a viable auto industry with GM returning to its status as a world-class automaker. But the Obama team's GM plan doesn't embrace public standards on energy and the environment.

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The Arrogance of FedEx

James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Faa, Fred Smith, Boeing, FedEx Corp, Federal Aviation Administration, Congress, Nlra, Teamsters, Rla, Business News

FedEx CEO Fred Smith is always full of surprises. First, he threatened to pull his Boeing contract if Congress passes a provision of the Federal Aviat...

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SEC Chair Mary Schapiro's Previous Agency Was Soft On Enforcement: Report

Legal Times | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: FINRA Enforcement, Sec, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Mary Schapiro, Mary Schapiro Sec, Schapiro Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission, Finra, SEC Chair, Business News

An analysis conducted out of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's Washington office shows the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority - the independent secur...

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Angelo Mozilo Fraud Charges: SEC Charges Former Countrywide CEO

AP | MARCY GORDON and GREG RISLING | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading, Countrywide Ceo, Countrywide Financial, Sec, Securities Exchange Commission, Angelo Mozilo, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of fallen mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Co...

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Study: Companies Need To Disclose More Climate Risks

AP | MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Sec, Climate Change, Environment, Green Business, Pollution, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal regulators have not done enough to ensure that shareholders are aware of material risks to companies from greenhouse ga...

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Big Business Failing to Disclose Climate Change Risks

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Sec, Alternative Energy, Climate, Investors, Business News

Which U.S. companies are best positioned to lead the pack in the great green race for a low carbon future?

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Cramer & Colleagues Put Heat on SEC to Bring Back Uptick Rule

Harleen Kahlon | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Main Street, Investing, Uptick Rule, Sec, Wall Street, Cramer, TheStreet.Com, Business News

This letter to the SEC prepared by Jim Cramer, Eric Oberg, Scott Rothbort and Bill Furber, who are in favor of reinstating the Uptick Rule, has been e...

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Obama Near Proposal To Revamp Financial Regulations

nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Treasury Department, Securities Exchange Commission, Sec, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Financial Rules, Obama Administration, Financial Regulation, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will soon propose a comprehensive plan to expand the authority of the government to seize large troubled compan...

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Former SEC Chair Cox Undermined Enforcement Efforts

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sec, Sec Enforcement, Chris Cox, Christopher Cox, SEC Policy, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Chair, Politics News

The five enforcement officials caught a morning Acela train bound for Washington. Based at the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commissi...

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Battle of the Regulators

Ron S. Geffner | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Recession, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News

There is no regulatory agency nor are any of our elected officials without blood on their hands. Each has contributed to the economic crisis.

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Everyone Agrees We Need to Reform Wall Street... Just Like After Enron

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street, Obama Regulation, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Regulatory Reform, Sec Report, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Luntz Memo, Sec, Frank Luntz, Financial Regulation, Politics News

In the same way that candidates in the 2008 race had to declare that, like Obama, they were for change, today everyone is for reform of our financial system. But the question is: are we going to get real reform or are we going to get the DC version of "reform"?

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Gensler Confirmed as Head of the CFTC - Will He Be Watching Oil Prices?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Gary Gensler, The Senate, Financial Crisis, Finanacial Times, Oil, Oil and Gas Prices, Green Energy, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Energy Policy, Manipulation, Seculation, Speculation, Business News

Gensler will have to move away from the agency's "head in the sand" policy of recent years, while defending commodity futures trading against accusations of undue influence.

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SEC Head Fights Obama Financial Watchdog Plan

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Banking Regulation, Mary Schapiro, Obama Financial Regulation, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Securities and Exchange Commission, Consumer Protection, Business News

WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is objecting to a plan being weighed by the Obama administration to create a new...

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SEC May Lose Power in Regulatory Overhaul

bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt and Jesse Westbrook | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Mary Schapiro, Federal Reserve, Regulation, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bank Regulation, Financial Regulation, Business News

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration may call for stripping the Securities and Exchange Commission of some of its powers under a regulatory ...

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Watchdog Digs Into Conduct At SEC

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 06.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Insider Trading, Sec, SEC Influence, SEC Watchdog, Business News

A Securities and Exchange Commission official attempted "to intimidate and influence" a family member's broker on multiple occasions by invoking her p...

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SEC Attorneys Accused Of Insider Trading

CBS News | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

Read More: SEC Insider Trading, Sec, SEC Attorneys, SEC Insider Trading Health Care Company, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

CBS News has learned that two attorneys at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are under "active" criminal investigation by the FBI for tradi...

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