A Year After MF Global's Collapse, Brokerage Firms Feel Less Pressure for Change
The MF Global bankruptcy prompted federal authorities to immediately bear down on the brokerage firm and the broader futures trading industry.
View ArticleWall Street Offers a Second Career for Former Politicians
The winner of the presidential election will claim the White House, but the loser could find a lucrative job in high finance by providing advice on deals or arranging speaking engagements.
View ArticleOn Wall Street, Time to Mend Fences With Obama
Wall Street titans who supported Mitt Romney now face the prospect of developing a working relationship with the Obama administration.
View ArticleSetting the Table for Tax Negotiations
The government can address the so-called fiscal cliff through more progressive spending, not higher tax rates, the author writes.
View ArticleLetting Shareholders Know How Their Money Is Spent
The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering whether to adopt rules that would require public companies to disclose information about their political spending.
View ArticleAs Official Drops Out, S.E.C. Race Shifts
After Mary J. Miller, a senior Treasury Department official, removed her name from consideration, Sallie L. Krawcheck, a longtime Wall Street executive, has emerged as a potential front-runner to head...
View ArticleAn Architect of Wall Street Reform Prepares for Life After Politics
Representative Barney Frank says getting the Dodd-Frank Act passed was his hardest-fought battle in more than 30 years in Congress.
View ArticleWilliam Baer Confirmed as Justice Department Antitrust Chief
William J. Baer is expected to continue what has been widely seen as the agency's reinvigorated enforcement of antitrust laws after a period of lax oversight during the Bush administration.
View ArticleAn Argentine Parallel
Preferring some creditors over others is at issue in the Argentine debt litigation. Yet, a similar idea is being suggested by some House Republicans.
View ArticleKashkari, Onetime $700 Billion Man at Treasury, Weighs Political Bid
Neel Kashkari, the former Bush administration official who oversaw the Treasury Department's sweeping bank rescue plan during the financial crisis, is leaving Pimco to consider running for office in...
View ArticleA Signal to Wall Street In Obama's Pick For Regulators
The White House took the unusual step of choosing two former prosecutors as top financial regulators. But translating that resolve into action will not be easy, given the complexities of the market and...
View ArticleCarlyle Names Head of Government Affairs
Carlyle has hired Barrett Karr, majority staff director of a House committee, to lead its United States government affairs.
View ArticleConfirmation Hearing for S.E.C. Nominee Said to Be Set for March
Mary Jo White, who has been nominated to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, is tentatively scheduled to appear the week of March 11 before the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the...
View ArticleC.F.T.C.’s General Counsel to Depart
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on Friday that its general counsel, Dan M. Berkovitz, would soon depart the agency. His departure follows the agency's recent legal crackdown on Wall...
View ArticleAfter Financial Crisis, Prosecutors Navigate Tricky Waters
The dearth of prosecutions since the financial crisis is again stirring controversy, but there is still time for political leaders to hold corporate executives responsible when a company engages in...
View ArticleDismissing Concerns, Panel Backs White’s S.E.C. Nomination
Mary Jo White cleared an important hurdle to becoming head of the S.E.C., as all but one lawmaker on the Senate Banking Committee backed her nomination.
View ArticleA Plan to Simplify the Tax Code That May Be Too Simple
A draft proposal in Congress does nothing to address how the partnership tax rules are now being used, and abused, by large businesses, the author writes.
View ArticleBlame Abounds Over a Flawed Foreclosure Review
A report cites failures by federal regulators, and further government scrutiny of them and of the consulting firms they hired to conduct the review is certain.
View ArticleShould Smaller Banks Really Have Less Capital Protection?
A new proposal by Senators Brown and Vitter is an unprecedented attempt to unfairly advantage smaller “regional banks” and disadvantage bigger “megabanks,” the author writes.
View ArticleSome in Congress Grow More Wary of Selling Sprint to SoftBank of Japan
National security concerns are rooted in SoftBank’s relationship with Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturers.
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