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Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on November 25, 2009
...ection Act of 2009 which allows most companies to never comply with the law. Norris quotes former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt saying: "That the Democratic Party is the ...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...h the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming about fair value, ...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
... New York Stock Exchange (John Thain and Duncan Niederauer); the chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division (Adam Storch). No wonder they call it Governm...
MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ley O'Neal and his successor John Thain, bank bail out master Henry Paulson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and his su...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...aises serious questions about the legality of Goldman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that ...
Madoff calls SEC's Schapiro a "dear friend": jailhouse interview
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...k into the SEC investigators and says he was amazed he wasn't caught. More alarmingly, he describes Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro as a "dear friend" and says she "probably thi...
Seen that? - Pillow Talk
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...s it with insider trading? Why is there a spate of cases involving dirty trades and pillow talk?The Securities and Exchange Commission has so far filed seven insider trading cases against married coup...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
...ker has called for the reinstatement of laws that stop banks from owning and trading risky securities. Still, their calls are unlikely to get any traction from the Obama administration which seems...
Sun Microsystems to Cut 3,000 Jobs
in Java Entrepreneur, on October 22, 2009
...racle in April," writes Times Online's Mike Harvey . "Sun said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the layoffs would come from all its major regions, including...
!0 more to be charged with insider trading
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
... trading is just the beginning. Bloomberg reports that US investigators plan to charge another 10 securities professionals with insider trading. And who knows what comes after that? All this sugge...
Is the US ready for IFRS?
in Sox First, on October 20, 2009
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Earlier this year, the then incoming head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro indicated she was in no hurry to bring global accounting standards (otherwise known as Intern...
Seen that? - A VOD Ad Network is Possible
in The Digital TV Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...Plans at The Digital TV Weblog At the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York City last month, Time Warner Cable CEO, Glenn Britt, and Cab...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
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After helping to create the financial collapse by giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collecti...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...n badly exposed in a new study Trust and Delegation . Hedge funds were instrumental in buying bad securities and and helping bring the world's financial system to its knees. The study found that ha...
China's Problems with the Falling Dollar are its Own Fault
in China Venture News, on October 11, 2009
...d other major currencies, China and other emerging economic powers holding lots of dollars and U.S. securities are crying foul, and for an end to the dollar’s central status in global commerce.
If ...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...system. As a result, the market imploded with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. As a result, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt says we need to have a new system that all...
Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2009
... Pan Asian Biz is one of several sources reporting that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the New York stock exchange Group (NYSE). What t...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...nancial meltdown, ratings agencies are now in the gun with new rules requiring them to provide the Securities and Exchange Commission with data showing past information they passed on to investors. ...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...ic Monthly's Daniel Indiviglio points out, this could devastate the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market and that will damage the US economy even further. There is only one answer...
FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...as already stinking to high heaven with the Bank of America being forced to pay $33 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bon...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
...c collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making that point quite clear. "OK still have this vomi...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...d exotic financial products. Jacobs writes: "They're still packaging risky mortgages into securities and selling them to investors, who can earn higher returns by purchasing the securities t...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Citi and Bank of America ...
SEC links to Madoff scam
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ver the weekend, I did a blog entry looking at whether Bernard Madoff's victims could sue the Securities and Exchange Commission for its negligence. Certainly, Madoff himself expressed surpris...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
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At the end of last year, a 61 year old New York woman Phyllis Molchatsky sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence after she lost $2 million investing with Bernard Madoff. No...
Madoff: contender for SEC chairman
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...d Madoff, now spending the rest of his life in jail, was actually a contender to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's the revelation in this SEC report into the regulato...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...struggling to refinance loans. As the WSJ says, the problems hitting the commercial mortgage backed securities sector will damage what's left of the banks. WSJ reporters Lingling Wei and Peter Gr...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
... report, the grouping known as the Caribbean Banking Centers holds $189.7 billion worth of Treasury securities. That group takes in the Cayman Islands, home to US hedge funds and investment vehicles. ...
Scams bigger than Bernie
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
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Remember Harry Markopolos ? He was the whistleblower who alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to Bernard Madoff's scam. The guy who was ignored by the SEC until it was too late. N...
Liquidia Technologies Raises $7 Million
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 13, 2009
...d over $7 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing.
"A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals the company raised $7,031,130 in equity," accordin...
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...court heard that this was happening as early as the 80s, so nearly 30 years ago. Why didn't the Securities and Exchange Commission pick it up? A new book Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Ma...
Citigroup and Norwegian greed
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
...the fallout from the meltdown continues with reports that Norwegian municipalities and a bankrupt securities broker, Terra Securities, are suing Citigroup for $200 million after losing all their mon...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
...E's auditors KPMG. Echoes of Arthur Andersen. Accounting commentator J. Edward Ketz says the Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro is doing the public an injustice by going too...
Global Recovery
in China Venture News, on August 7, 2009
...leinfeld, Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) CEO Richard Adkerson, CEO Donald Tang of Hong Kong-based Citic Securities International Partners, and Joe Meuse, president of financial consulting firm Belmont Par...
Google 出价 1.065 亿美元收购 On2
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-06
Google 表示 将斥资 1.065 亿美元收购数字视频压缩技术提供商 On2 Technologies。
根据协议规定，每股 On2 股票将转换为价值 0.60 美元的 Google 普通股。交易规模大约在1 .065 亿美元。整个交易预计将在今年第四季度完成。
Google 拥有广受欢迎的视频共享网站 YouTube。而 On2 是一家数字视频压缩技术提供商，在网络视频日益盛行的今天，数字视频压缩技术已成为一个重要法宝。
Google 产品管理副总裁 Sundar Pichai 在声明中表示，"现在视频已经是 Web 体验的一个重要组成部分，我们相信高品质的视频压...
Skype to shut down?
in Sox First, on August 1, 2009
...cheduled for hearing before the English High Court in June next year. eBay's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission makes it quite clear that Skype's future really hangs on the ...
Goldman Sachs in the gun
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
...ernal communications, such as email, show bankers had private doubts about whether mortgage-related securities they were putting together were as financially sound as their public pronouncements sugge...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...running the company when misleading information was being put out. And now for the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that former chief executive officer of CSK Auto C...
MFA on Obama's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 16, 2009
... private pools of capital, including private equity and venture capital funds, to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Baker highlights how the Administration's proposed le...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...sults to be sustainable. Moreover, we continue to have concerns about the confidence sensitivity of securities firms with sizable trading operations and high reliance on wholesale funding, despite thi...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... of corporate greed. But he was allowed to get away with it for years. We can blame the incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission turning a blind eye. Surely, the SEC should be brought to account...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...y, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As I said, it all makes sense and is long overdue. But will it ...
PCAOB chairman Mark Olson quits. What now for Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
...lt in a rethink of Sarbanes-Oxley. Another explanation might be that Olson was appointed by former Securities and Exchange Commission chief Christopher Cox. He is gone and a new administration an...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
..., brought the company down. It has since been bought out by Bank of America.
Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all ...
SEC probe uncovers problems
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
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All is not well at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Read through the report of the SEC Inspector General and weep. Shake your head in disgust because the report makes it clear that the th...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...esolve it then. Clusterstock has come up with its own radical solutions. These include nuking the Securities and Exchange Commission which has failed to protect investors, stop letting companies hir...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...h, Hank Paul-son, the former US Treasury secretary, and Christopher Cox, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a remarkable trinity who more than fulfilled the mission o...
SEC official abuses position
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how appallingly the Securities and Exchange Commission has been managed. Basically, it's a case of of the lunatics running the asylum. Addi...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... Nordic institutions.
The Global Awards judging panel included Dr Werner Frey, CEO of the European Securities Forum and Angela Knight, CEO of The British Bankers Association.
More about the awa...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 10, 2009
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The Securities and Exchange Commissions stuffed up big time with Bernard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Governmen...
Madoff's son in slug fest
in Sox First, on May 6, 2009
...nto a Wall Street warrior defending dad's not so good name. The story about his fist fight with securities trader Reed Abend came out on the Dealbreaker blog last week. Apparently, young Mad...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...s this month. More details here . CFO.com reports how James Kroeker, acting chief accountant at Securities and Exchange Commission says it will eclipse fair value as a painful issue for accountant...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...isconduct. This is not before time but it does leave one wondering why it's taken so long. The Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down on conflicts of interest at the rating agencies ...
No recovery in sight
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...ely to remain weak for a time". With the Fed printing money to buy Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and housing agency debt , some economists are predicting the US economy will return to gr...
HedgeCo.Net Spring Manager Showcase on Wed next week
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2009
... HedgeCo.Net and HedgeCo Securities is holding the Spring 2009 Manager Showcase. This event is open to all accredited hedgeco .Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers....
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...s open to fraud and now we have the Los Angeles Times telling us of criminal probes into possible securities fraud, tax violations, insider trading and other crimes related to the $750 billion bailo...
Recession: neither the beginning of the end or end of the beginning
in Sox First, on April 13, 2009
... "The end of the decline isn't the beginning of the recovery," David Resler of Nomura Securities told the WSJ. Actually, it's going to be hard to tell whether the decline is ending ...
Fake Accounting Standards Board strikes again
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
...ce Rule Change Lets Banks Reinvent the Past . The FASB now allow banks to stick impaired financial securities into a balance sheet dumping ground called "Other Comprehensive Income". That w...
Japan's economic collapse
in Sox First, on March 30, 2009
... shrinking 9.4% . Last week, we had reports of retail sales in Japan falling 5.8% and Macquarie Securities has told Bloomberg that deflation has taken over again. Japan's finance minister Ka...
New directions on the IFRS roadmap
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...ble and that "we are 80% there." That's not withstanding the comments made by the new Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro. McGregor told me we could just ignore her. Y...
US dollar under fire
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
...o change in the short term because central banks around the world hold more U.S. dollars and dollar securities than they do assets denominated in any other individual foreign currency. Still, the fact...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission charging Bernard Madoff's accountant David G. Friehling, with securities fraud, aiding and abetting investment adviser fraud, and four counts of fil...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
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So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" th...
Still in the dark on Steve Jobs
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
...ompany, without spelling out exactly how, and refused to answer questions about reports that the US Securities and Exchange Commission was examining Apple's conduct in disclosing Jobs' health ...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
... gullible and how the regulators ignored all the warning signs. That's right, in both cases the Securities and Exchange Commission was asleep at the wheel. The Houston Chronicle's Loren Stef...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
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We have talked many times about the way the Securities and Exchange Commission had looked the other way and allowed Bernard Madoff to get away with his fraud. Now, the New York Post reports tha...
Madoff madness
in Sox First, on February 4, 2009
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Much has been said about the Securities and Exchange Commission's incompetence over fraudster Bernard Madoff and why it ignored all the red flags. Now whistleblower Harry Markopoulos, who warn...
Sarbanes-Oxley: It's crunch time for small companies
in Sox First, on January 29, 2009
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It looks like the honeymoon is over for small companies. Incoming Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Schapiro says she wants small public businesses to start complying with the ...
Steve Jobs and board failure
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
... sales and profits . Obviously, investors don't seem to care that Bloomberg reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Apple's disclosures about Steve Jobs' he...
