Monday, September 10, 2012

Financial reform

  • UK investors say reform Libor, don't scrap it

    ... financial crisis of 2008 the bank may be nationalised if the government believed its borrowing costs were higher than those of rivals.

    in.reuters.com

  • Senators Want To Give President Power To Stop Insufficiently Lenient Financial ...

    "This legislation would give Wall Street lobbyists another powerful set of tools to delay and derail the implementation of financial safeguards that are needed to protect our economy," the nonprofit group Americans for Financial Reform wrote in a ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • No big break-ups in reform of Europe's banks

    EU finance ministers will meet in Cyprus on Friday to discuss the work of a panel of experts, led by Bank of Finland Governor Erkki Liikanen, charged with exploring possible reform of bank structures in the wake of the crisis that beset the world ...

    in.reuters.com

  • Japan Cabinet minister found dead at Tokyo home

    FILE - In this June 4, 2012 file photo, newly-appointed Financial and Postal Reform Minister Tadahiro Matsushita speaks as he is surrounded by reporters after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffled his Cabinet at the prime minister's ...

    www.statesman.com

  • Protection From Scam Reverse Mortgages Needed

    Consumers Union and California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform have urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to adopt a number of reforms to protect vulnerable seniors from the potential pitfalls of reverse mortgages. Reverse ...

    swflorida.blogspot.com

  • German minister: Don't let up on reforms

    BERLIN - Germany's finance minister is insisting that countries must not use the European Central Bank's plan to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds as an excuse to let up on economic reforms and deficit-cutting. The ECB announced its most ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • IMF urges Government to cut social welfare spending

    The IMF said Ireland must continue to deliver on three main fronts - financial sector reform; growth-friendly fiscal consolidation and broad-based efforts to reduce unemployment.

    www.irishtimes.com

  • For India's new finance minister, there is no time to waste

    BETTER TIES WITH CENTRAL BANK. The last time Chidambaram was finance minister, in 2004-2008, growth was motoring at a near-double-digit clip, fuelled by the transformational reforms that Singh introduced in 1991 to open up a state-stifled economy.

    biz.thestar.com.my

  • Financial regulation isn't fixed, it's just more complicated

    Of course, it is not easy to legislate financial reform in a stagnant global economy, for fear of impeding credit and turning a sluggish recovery into a full-blown recession.

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Police: Japan's Cabinet minister in charge of financial services found dead in ...

    FILE - In this June 4, 2012 file photo, newly-appointed Financial and Postal Reform Minister Tadahiro Matsushita speaks as he is surrounded by reporters after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffled his Cabinet at the prime minister's ...

    www.greenfieldreporter.com

  • Does Campaign Finance In The United States Need To Be Fixed?

    Editor's Note: HuffPost College teamed with the International Debate Education Association to produce the following debate. Since the 1976 Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court ruling, spending money has equated to the free expression of speech in modern ...

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  • Barack Obama Campaign Finance Reforms Fiddled While System Crumbled

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, a central tenet of his campaign was that he would not play the same old Washington game.

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  • Money market fund reform stalls

    It was shocking news when the SEC failed in its efforts to pass rules designed to strengthen money market funds, which have been roundly criticized in the wake of the financial crisis. When the Reserve Fund "broke the buck" in 2008, it was a seismic ...

    www.fiercefinance.com

  • In the world of financial reform, an uneven playing field

    That fuels tension, creating set-tos such as the short but sharp war of words between JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer Jamie Dimon and Bank of Canada head Mark Carney, who is co-ordinating the reforms as head of the Financial Stability ...

    www.theglobeandmail.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 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.

    stream.marketwatch.com

  • Campaign finance reform stalls: not much progress since 1905 on corporate ...

    Campaign finance reform stalls: not much progress since 1905 on corporate campaign donations. Campaign finance reform stalls: not much progress since 1905 on corporate campaign donations. Related Content. Last 5 stories in Opinion. Chick-fil-A's ...

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  • 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

  • EU's van Rompuy: Greece to keep euro, must reform

    The Finance Ministry said Friday it would investigate in the next few days some 54,000 people who have sent a total (EURO)22 billion to foreign bank accounts since 2009, when the crisis began.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • The Path To Job Creation Runs Through Regulatory Reform

    WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 08: Members of the House Financial Services Committee hold a news conference to discuss the impact of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law September 8, 2011 in Washington, DC. Bachus said that Treasury Secretary ...

    www.forbes.com

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