Securities Regulation
BofA Settles with FGIC, Mellon Over Mortgage Securities for $950M
Bank of America Corp., the second- largest U.S. lender, said it reached a $950 million settlement tied to residential mortgage securities backed by Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. The accord ...
U.S. SEC Forms Group to Probe Private Equity, Hedge Funds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put together a dedicated group to examine private equity and hedge funds, after the 2010 Dodd-Frank law required the funds to be regulated, ...
Madoff’s Former Associates Convicted in Multibillion-Dollar Fraud
Five former aides to investment manager Bernard Madoff were convicted on Monday of charges that they helped their boss conceal his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme for years. A federal jury in New ...
New York Grabs ‘Shaky’ Lead Over London As Top Financial Center
New York replaced London as the world's leading financial center for the first time, after the City was rocked by a series of scandals and questions over the U.K.'s place in the European Union. New ...
U.S. SEC Charges Brokers in Scheme to Profit From Terminally Ill Through VA Sales
U.S. securities regulators filed civil charges against two brokers and seven others, saying they were involved in a scheme to profit from the death of terminally ill patients through variable annuity ...
7 of 25 Largest Class-Action Settlements Since 1995 Approved Last Year: ISS
Seven of the 25 largest class-action settlements since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 were approved in 2013, according to a report released by the Securities Class ...
SEC Proposes Rules for Systemically Important Clearinghouses
Clearinghouses guaranteeing trades in part of the $693 trillion swaps market would have to meet new standards to guard against defaults and failure under rules proposed by the U.S. Securities and ...
Consortium of 20 Insurers Offers Coverage for Derivatives Clearinghouses
A group of insurers is for the first time offering to shoulder risk for clearinghouses backing hundreds of millions of derivatives trades, proposing more protection in markets where a collapse could ...