Search Results for: U.S. regulator
Regulators Weigh Delay for Separating Banks’ Swaps Units
September 19th, 2014
U.S. banks may get another year to shift some swaps trading from their government-insured units as regulators respond to demands to give them more time, according to two people familiar with the talks. A delay until July 2016 in ...
U.S. SEC sets out settlement with AgFeed over accounting fraud
September 16th, 2014
AgFeed, a Tennessee animal feed company, will pay back $18 million in alleged illicit profits to settle civil accounting fraud charges, U.S. regulators said Monday. AgFeed Industries, which is currently in bankruptcy, was charged by the Securities and Exchange ...
PwC to face U.S. lawsuit over Colonial Bank collapse
September 11th, 2014
Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a federal judge has ruled. Filed ...
U.S. Charges Belize Agents Linked to Cynk’s Stock Surge
September 10th, 2014
Two men working out of the same Belize building as the penny-stock company Cynk Technology Corp. (CYNK), which surged to a market value of more than $6 billion for an hour in July, were among six people accused by ...
RBS unit may raise $3.5 billion in top U.S. bank IPO this year
September 8th, 2014
Citizens Financial Group Inc, the U.S. unit of Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), said its initial public offering was expected to raise as much as $3.5 billion, making it the biggest U.S. offering by a bank this year. ...
U.S. accountants’ optimism returns to pre-recession levels
September 8th, 2014
Not since 2007 have U.S. accountants in industry felt as optimistic about the future of their companies and the state of the domestic economy as they do now. While concerns about regulatory requirements linger, and some companies remain hesitant ...
Commerzbank near to settling U.S. sanctions probes
September 4th, 2014
German lender Commerzbank AG (CBKG.DE) is nearing agreement with U.S. authorities over its dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the matter said. The bank is expected to pay about $650 million to resolve ...
China anti-trust probes not protectionist, regulator says
September 2nd, 2014
Foreign companies are increasingly concerned they are being targeted by Chinese regulators, a U.S. business lobby said on Tuesday, as a Chinese antitrust agency defended probes into firms such as U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O). The American Chamber of ...
China antitrust regulator claims Microsoft sales information not transparent
August 26th, 2014
Microsoft Corp’s internet browser and media player are being targeted in a Chinese antitrust probe, raising the prospect of China revisiting the software bundling issue at the heart of past antitrust complaints against the firm in the West. Microsoft ...
China Regulators: Qualcomm Seeks to End Antitrust Probe
August 22nd, 2014
U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is seeking to end an investigation by China’s pricing regulator into monopoly practices, the company said on Friday, expressing its willingness to improve and correct pricing issues according to the regulator. The National Development and ...
