Barclays told to keep up pressure to reform
Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), wrote to incoming Barclays Chairman David Walker on Thursday to stress that there can be no let up in efforts to reform the bank, a person familiar with the matter said. Walker joined ...in.reuters.com
Risky Business Pays Off For Wall Street: Financial Crisis Penalties Pale ...
The banks can count the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, some $2 billion in penalties, and occasional criticism from the president and other Democrats among the horrors they have had to endure since the crisis.www.huffingtonpost.com
Campaign finance reform is urgently needed
In the upcoming months, you're going to see a lot of advertising for political candidates. Even if you avoid watching television, browsing the Internet or reading the newspaper, you'll still be bombarded by campaign signs everywhere on lawns and ...www.thedaonline.com
Bank Lobbyists Launch Super PAC To Weaken Wall Street Reform
... Weaken Wall Street Reform | The American Bankers' Association - which represents the biggest banks in the U.S. - will likely vote today to launch a Super PAC to back candidates who favor rolling back provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.thinkprogress.org
Obama's new remedy to campaign finance reform
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Pushing constitutional amendments tends to be the province of Republican presidents: to mandate balanced budgets, for instance, or to make abortion illegal.www.thenorthwestern.com
Compound Interest? Huh. Investors Flunk Key Financial Literacy Test
Sadly, Americans didn't just flunk this latest financial literacy test; they got almost nothing right. The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered the Study Regarding Financial Literacy Among Investors, as required by the Dodd-Frank financial reform ...moneyland.time.com
Spain unveils financial reforms, guidelines
MADRID (MarketWatch) - Spain's government Friday approved a set of financial reforms aimed at accelerating reform of the banking sector, hit by a five-year real estate bust.www.marketwatch.com
What would a GOP version of financial reform look like?
Republicans don't like Dodd-Frank, but what would happen to financial reform if they were in the driver's seat? Mitt Romney has vowed to repeal it, but many of the law's biggest critics doubt that will happen, even under a GOP Congress and administration.www.washingtonpost.com
Spain Offers Financial Reform Plan, Focus Turns to ECB
The Spanish government today approved a set of financial reforms that it hopes will end the country's banking crisis. The proposed reforms will fulfill a commitment by Spain to the European Central Bank in exchange for a bank bailout commitment of $125 ...www.dailyfinance.com
The political attack website you didn't know you're paying for
The website's homepage directs visitors to a survey that is meant to explain whether and how financial reforms will impact you.finance.fortune.cnn.com
Mayor Kiesel: More of My Thoughts on Pension Reform
California municipalities are drowning under the financial burden of unsustainable pensions, and I do not believe that hastily-decided reform is in their best interest, nor is it in the best interest of its citizens. We in Foster City have a $21 ...fostercity.patch.com
Ending the Financial Arms Race
Legislative complexity is growing exponentially in parallel. In the United States, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was just 37 pages and helped to produce financial stability for the greater part of seven decades. The recent Dodd-Frank Wall Street ...www.project-syndicate.org
India banking strike clouds financial reform hopes
The strike involving mainly staff of state-run banks, who make up around 70 percent of employees in the sector, underscored the opposition to investor-friendly financial reforms that have been pending for years. Foreign ownership of Indian public ...www.reuters.com
BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc. Announces Addition Of Health Care ...
6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank, headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, announced today the release of a health care reform calculator to help clients and partners quantify the financial ...www.dailymarkets.com
Greece must stick to reform vows, insists Germany
BERLIN: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday that Greece must stick to its reform promises to unlock bailout cash the debt-wracked country needs to stave off default and stay in the eurozone.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Obama Touts Financial Reform as Romney Takes Bankers' Checks
As Obama takes the stage at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte to accept the Democratic nomination, some of the political ramifications of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act are already on display. Employees in the financial ...hereisthecity.com
Martin Wheatley to reform selling practices in UK banks
Martin Wheatley, Managing Director at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said that commission-based sales have goaded British banks to mis-sell financial products to customers and hence sales of financial products should be made commission-free.www.thefinancepages.co.uk
Don't Repeal Dodd-Frank, but Don't Crush the Banks Either
Second, after the massive financial crisis, reforms to restrain excessive risk-taking were essential and Dodd-Frank made a good start on those reforms. At the same time, efforts to blame the entire crisis and the continuing slow economy on Wall Street ...www.brookings.edu
Dow Chemical to Reform Under New, More Global Business Structure
Also on the Committee are executive vice presidents James Fitterling, Howard Ungerleider and Joe Harlan, as well as Chief Financial Officer Bill Weideman, who will oversee finance, Dow AgroSciences and corporate development. Fitterling, 50, will have ...www.foxbusiness.com
Mitt Romney and Consumer Protection Regulation
In fact, one of the most striking things about the new push to undo the consumer-friendly financial reforms that followed the crash is the open contempt its backers show for American democracy.abcnews.go.com
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