Friday, September 7, 2012

Financial reform

  • 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 ...

    www.guilfordian.com

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

    ATHENS, Greece - The EU Council President on Friday urged Greece to press ahead with promised economic reforms and improve tax efficiency, insisting that compliance will allow the debt-crippled country to stay in the euro.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • FSA keeps up pressure on Barclays 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 ...

    www.telegraph.co.uk

  • 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

  • Private lenders offer little help for sagging SMEs

    Wenzhou is the product of a pilot project, one of the first moves toward financial reform, that aims to channel private funds into the financial system.

    www.chinadaily.com.cn

  • 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

  • Why Romney Won't Kill Dodd-Frank

    Instead, President Romney would likely try to give the financial industry something it wants more: a diluted financial reform law that would relax restrictions on some of its most profitable—and riskiest—investments but maintain enough government ...

    www.businessweek.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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 ...

    www.sacbee.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

  • 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

  • China Planning Official: China Has Enough Funds for Infrastructure Spending

    ... official with the country's economic planner told a financial forum Friday. Xu Lin, director of the fiscal and financial affairs department at the National Development and Reform Commission, said government funding was needed for key infrastructure ...

    www.nasdaq.com

  • Liberal firebrand Barney Frank attacks "myth Romney"

    As the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Frank co-authored the 2010 financial reform bill, a bugbear for presidential challenger Romney and his Republican Party.

    www.chicagotribune.com

  • 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

  • Spain to approve 'bad bank' for toxic assets

    Spain's government is meeting to approve a new financial sector reform that will create a "bad bank" to contain toxic property investments and will give the central bank more powers to shut down troubled lenders.

    www.lasvegassun.com

  • EU's financial sector to serve the economic progress

    Second, the EU needs to put in place measures to ensure the financial sector supports healthy growth and investment. As a result, it became clear that the financial services sector could not escape reforms. Moreover, the experiences during the crisis ...

    www.baltic-course.com

  • Florida $1 Billion Pension Reform Faces High Court Scrutiny

    ... changed future benefits to save $1 billion in pension expenses and deal with a financial crisis, Raoul Cantero, a lawyer for Republican Governor Rick Scott, argued.

    www.moneynews.com

  • 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

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