Principles-based rules won’t be a panacea for financial services and, in fact, could create more regulatory risk, some industry observers say. The concept of flexible rules is being pushed hard by business interests and regulators as the way to improve and modernize regulation.
Philanthropist and insurance tycoon Barry Kaye is bringing unwanted attention to a university that has benefited from his largess and to the life settlement industry.
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is on a roll in the courts — but not a good one.
WASHINGTON — Unions are hoping that pressure from Congress on private-equity funds will lead to better pay and benefits for workers, including more unionization.
NEW YORK — Sick and tired of complying with an increasingly complex regulatory framework, many financial advisers knowingly sidestep their firms’ compliance policies and sometimes show little regard for rules and regulations, according to a new survey of advisers and other financial services professionals.
State regulators are questioning whether some of the “harmonization” of rules of the regulatory operations of NASD and the New York Stock Exchange will harm investor protection
The Federal Reserve Board will consider new regulations to tighten mortgage-lending standards, said Fed chairman Ben Bernanke in a letter released Friday.
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. has agreed to buy Nordic markets owner OMX AB for $3.7 billion, after failing on an earlier bid to purchase the London Stock Exchange.
Brokerage firms, preparing to transition existing customers into alternative fee programs, are putting the freeze on new fee-based brokerage accounts.
NEW YORK — As some U.S. senators find fault with the arbitration system that resolves client disputes with broker-dealers, the brokerage industry’s largest trade group is defending the process.
IRVINE, Calif. — Small brokerage firms are concerned about possible increases in net capital requirements that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed.
Now that a lawsuit challenging the merger of the regulatory units of NASD and the New York Stock Exchange has been dismissed, attention has turned to the Securities and Exchange Commission, where NASD bylaw changes needed to seal the deal are pending approval.
With the deadline bearing down to initiate legal action to block a federal court’s decision on the legality of fee-based brokerage accounts, the brokerage industry is looking for guidance on how to proceed.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining disclosures for 401(k) plans and is looking at ways to provide 401(k) information using interactive software, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said last week.
Mutual fund companies are starting to slow the pace at which they hire legal and compliance officers, according to several industry experts. With the mutual fund scandals receding into the past, such a trend was inevitable, they said.
Amid protest from its advisers that they are being asked to assume too much liability, TD Ameritrade Institutional is going back to the drawing board with its new service agreement.
New accusations against equity index annuity sellers may lead to regulatory grief comparable to what property-casualty firms suffered during the contingent- commission scandal a couple of years ago, industry observers say.
While advisers want their separately managed accounts made available on unified managed account systems, SMA managers fear that that will result in a loss of control over how their products are marketed.
IRVINE, Calif. — NASD is expanding the disciplinary information it discloses about brokers and firms.
NASD has hired a former board member as a consultant, raising questions about conflicts of interest and concerns about how well small firms have been represented in the organization.
