Securities Regulation
Aviva Hit With $221 Million Cost From Improper Hedge Fund Trades
Aviva Plc took a 132 million pound ($221 million) charge after saying two former employees breached its trading policy since 2006 to the benefit of external hedge funds. The insurer, which on ...
Supreme Court Justices Grapple with Rules for Class Actions
U.S. Supreme Court justices sought a middle ground to preserve class-action shareholder lawsuits as they heard a case testing the legal rules that have fostered thousands of cases over the past ...
Supreme Court Expands Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Shield
The U.S. Supreme Court expanded the reach of a federal law enacted in response to the 2001 Enron Corp. collapse, saying it protects people who work for a public company's contractors, including law ...
High Court to Determine Fate of Securities Class Actions
In a case eagerly watched by publicly traded companies regularly sued by investors, the U.S. Supreme Court will on Wednesday consider overruling a 26-year-old precedent that made it easier for ...
Fed Response to Financial Crisis Could Have Been More Aggressive: Bernanke
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank could have done more to fight the country's financial crisis and that he struggled to find the right way to communicate with ...
Records Reveal Fed Difficulty During Heat of 2008 Financial Crisis
Federal Reserve policymakers, in a tense meeting on one of the darkest days of the financial crisis, worried Lehman Brothers' failure would wreak havoc on a teetering financial system but feared ...
Business Wire to Stop Selling Direct Access to High-Frequency Traders
Business Wire will no longer let high-frequency trading companies buy potentially market-moving press releases directly from the Berkshire Hathaway unit. In consultation with billionaire investor ...
Federal Reserve Releases Transcripts from 2008 Financial Crisis Meetings
The board of governors of the Federal Reserve System has released transcripts, presentations and other historical materials from the Federal Open Market Committee meetings of 2008 that took place ...