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World Bank finally catches up with Siemens
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
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Seems like regulators are finally dealing with bribers and cheaters. But they're taking their time. Two years after Siemens executives were convicted of paying bribes to get business, the Wor...
Banks to face more stress tests
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
...rmanent feature for banks to create a healthier system. "Between formal tests conducted by the regulators, banks should be required to run internal stress tests and should share the results with ...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...assets and liabilities including mortgages and credit-card receivables off their balance sheets and regulators say the change will result in $900 billion in liabilities being put on the balance sheets...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...he 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 about Mozil...
Eight Genes That Help Predict Patients Response to Melanoma Treatment
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...archers used a mathematical tool called Neural Network Analysis to survey over 25,000 genes and the regulators that turn the genes on and off to see if they could identify ones that could distinguish ...
Krugman, Soros and Roubini: how to fix the crisis
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
...w I make money. So it's perfectly rational,'' Soros says. "It's the job of the regulators to regulate. However, we should try not to go overboard. While markets are imperfect, reg...
Entering an Era of Virtual Currencies?
in Bizinformer, on May 23, 2009
...ey are bleeding over into virtual worlds. Second Life closed its casinos rather than see government regulators invade their cyberworld. There have been other examples.
The issue of virtual currencies...
Credit card losses to hit banks
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
...iggest US banks could expect nearly $82.4 billion in credit card losses by the end of 2010. Federal regulators called that a "worst case" economic situation" but the paper suggests it c...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
...itical importance of transparency and accuracy in communicating to investors, employers, clients or regulators their risks and benefits that each constituency should expect when dealing with the enter...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...nd a former derivatives trader told Bloomberg , we need to work out a way of weaning investors and regulators off them. Maybe some of the answer are coming from Europe with the European Union bringi...
One more step to bank nationalization
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
...ll need new, perhaps significant, support; and the ones on the verge, whose fate will be decided by regulators." The question is where those banks "on the verge" are going to get that ...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...s. Which, as Davidoff implies, makes the arguments about Sarbanes-Oxley moot. "In this light, regulators not only need to think about who they regulate and where they regulate, but they need to ...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...They could change, and they could change within weeks. And by the way, the folks who are the better regulators, they paid their taxes. So, you can get them through the vetting process a lot quicker.&q...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...till not insolvent. But, the public, the lenders, the depositors, the investment community, and the regulators are worse off. The change in the accounting rules is another bailout for the bankers!&quo...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...ling on the proposal for a 90% tax on bonuses. Instead, the plan is to give Geithner and financial regulators the power to decide if employee compensation was "unreasonable" or "excess...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
...eport suggests, there are plenty more. Obviously, investors need to do more due diligence. Letting regulators know who's auditing the books would be another good step....
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
...ngs are a lot worse than they're making out. The situation is even worse when you consider that regulators are coming from the same direction. That's a point taken up by Bloomberg's Davi...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...ible. And we bought them." Gross has a point. But it wasn't just the business leaders and regulators. It was also the general public who used their houses as the equivalent of automated tell...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
... last. Furthermore, both cases raise questions about how investors could be so gullible and how the regulators ignored all the warning signs. That's right, in both cases the Securities and Exchang...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...r in other critical, but ancillary functions such as disaster recovery, auditing and governance. As regulators become more aware of these issues, however, it is reasonable to expect that companies wil...
Madoff madness
in Sox First, on February 4, 2009
...ernard Madoff and why it ignored all the red flags. Now whistleblower Harry Markopoulos, who warned regulators more than a decade ago about Madoff, has accused the SEC of "financial illiteracy&qu...
Bank bailout failure
in Sox First, on February 3, 2009
If nothing else, the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January. The year had barely started. And Obama has warned that no matter how much gets handed out, some ...
Reshaping governance: interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on January 9, 2009
...come from the central regulatory authority. SOX FIRST: But what's the justification for giving regulators a seat in the board room? HASTINGS: That way, they can be genuinely free of the self int...
New era of regulation
in Sox First, on December 29, 2008
...ill certain social responsibilities. What that means is that companies will be forced to deal with regulators in new ways. The folk at McKinsey say that the only way they can address this is with a n...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
...ard Madoff is accused of is bad enough. But what is more remarkable are the questions about federal regulators. Why was the Securities and Exchange Commission so slack to pick up what he was doing? Mo...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...ect. He said what was needed was to change who gets into the boardroom. According to Lord Hastings, regulators should appoint independent directors on to boards. These directors would not be paid by t...
Auditors slam bailout
in Sox First, on December 3, 2008
...t , the GAO says nobody really seems to be tracking how the money is being spent. "The banking regulators indicated that they had not yet developed any additional supervisory steps, such as requi...
Revised fair value rule fudges the books
in Sox First, on November 17, 2008
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how accounting regulators were bending over backwards to protect banks. By throwing them a lifeline, they have completely ignored the interests ...
The hypocrisy of Bush
in Sox First, on November 14, 2008
...luded failures - by lenders and borrowers and by financial firms and by governments and independent regulators. But the crisis was not a failure of the free market system. And the answer is not to try...
The Vision of Yahoo... (or Lack Thereof)
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 9, 2008
...k from Hell for Yahoo CEO and Founder Jerry Yang.
First, from CNET : "Bowing to federal regulators' antitrust concerns, Google pulled the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo tha...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
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Yesterday, I did a blog entry looking at regulators had changed accounting rule to look after the banks and how Deutsche Bank had used that to disguise a loss as a profit. Now, CFO.com re...
Google-Yahoo Deal is off
in The CIO Weblog, on November 5, 2008
...t and an exposure of the political naivete of Google in its first significant brush with anti-trust regulators. As I have said, I think this may come back to bite Microsoft in the long term, since thi...
Oil fields plan
in Sox First, on October 31, 2008
...ning at $900 billion, according to this report, which really doesn't leave much wiggle-room for regulators. An alliance of financial and consumer interests have asked regulators to let lenders red...
Hedge funds pummelled by Porsche and VW
in Sox First, on October 30, 2008
...d managers are going to sell their Porsches. Still, with VW's share price now tumbling, German regulators have l aunched an investigation into market manipulation. Watch this space....
Is Microsoft showing Google the legislative ropes?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...t; as we like to call it out here in Seattle) and lining the right pockets to ensure legislators or regulators don't stand overmuch in its way in the corridors of power.
The implication in the ar...
Corporate governance takes a back seat
in Sox First, on October 20, 2008
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Further evidence that US regulators are not at all interested in fixing the corporate governance mess that helped speed up the meltdown. As part of the $700 billion bailout package, the US Treasu...
The crash and deregulation
in Sox First, on October 18, 2008
...were going well, everyone loved it because businesses and households had access to cheap loans. But regulators were struggling to keep up. The more important question is whether the new wave of regul...
Financial ethics and the meltdown
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
...power than speculators? And who should appoint directors? Should it be just shareholders? Or should regulators appoint some? I am not giving any answers here. All I am saying is that Baker's argu...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...e economy's weaknesses were concealed by the Federal Reserve, which pumped in liquidity, and by regulators that looked away as loans were handed out well beyond borrowers' ability to repay the...
Did the short selling ban make any difference?
in Sox First, on October 9, 2008
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A few weeks ago, I did a blog entry condemning the way regulators around the world had cracked down on short selling. At the time, I maintained that short sellers play an important role in the m...
Iceland close to collapse
in Sox First, on October 7, 2008
...s the country's gross domestic product. This is important stuff. In the US and Europe, we have regulators trying to save individual banks. In Iceland, they are trying to rescue the whole system a...
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
... ways of old. After years of lax regulation, Wall Street firms will face much stronger oversight by regulators who are looking to tighten the reins on many practices that allowed the Street to flouris...
Washington Mutual - another one bites the dust
in Sox First, on September 26, 2008
... conservative risk management were supposed to protect it from collapse. That was not the case with regulators seizing its assets and selling them to JP Morgan Chase for a bargain basement price of ...
SEC's shortcomings
in Sox First, on September 20, 2008
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The Securities and Exchange Commission and regulators around the world have cracked down on short selling. Ostensibly, it's all designed to put a bit more transparency into the market. On on...
Lehman Brothers: the canary in the coal mine
in Sox First, on September 10, 2008
...s over its ability to raise further capital. Lehman now will have to make uncomfortable sacrifices. Regulators, meanwhile, have no time to pause for breath. Lehman looks in danger of ruining Fannie an...
Banks: trouble ahead
in Sox First, on August 27, 2008
...reserves to cover the losses, weak risk management policies or a lack of cash to cover withdrawals. Regulators then give the banks a report card, assigning a composite rating based on the bank's p...
Risk managers come clean
in Sox First, on August 11, 2008
... separate reporting line to the board to preserve its independence. This had been reinforced by the regulators who believed it was essential for objective risk analysis and assessment. However, this s...
Clueless about XBRL
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
...n the sidelines rather than fumble along trying to see what might work for them. "Second, the regulators themselves don't entirely know what to do with XBRL either. How will this be enforced...
No SOX relief in sight
in Sox First, on June 24, 2008
...Week's Neil Roland . With the subprime crisis in full swing, and the US economy in deep strife, regulators are unlikely to start unwinding the legislation. Looks likes it's here to stay for s...
The audit cartel
in Sox First, on June 4, 2008
...f auditor files is remarkably scarce. And when things go wrong, he says, the accountancy bodies and regulators individualize the problem, blaming company directors, corporate governance practices and ...
Going for green with accounting
in Sox First, on May 27, 2008
...materials flows and pollution controls for the company's executives, reporting to investors and regulators and analyzing how natural resources are used and how the company's environmental impa...
George Soros: market fundamentalism and other illusions
in Sox First, on May 12, 2008
...ge Soros in this interesting New York Review of Books interview . Soros blames a lot of it on the regulators. Whilst a lot of people could see disaster, the regulators at the Federal Reserve and Tre...
UBS woes
in Sox First, on May 7, 2008
...ss bank helped its American clients evade tax. The question is whether this is part of a push by US regulators to force the bank to come clean on its business practices. No doubt some commentators mi...
SOX and backdating
in Sox First, on April 11, 2008
...At the time the sarbanes oxley second day reporting requirement was passed, shareholders and regulators were unaware that firms had been backdating executives' option grants and exercises. ...
Recession time: the house of cards tumbles
in Sox First, on April 10, 2008
...d compensation also needed addressing. Of course, what the bankers are doing is trying to head the regulators off at the pass. By being so "up front", they are hoping to avoid more regulati...
Fraudulent firms and lobbying
in Sox First, on April 8, 2008
...ge is 711 days. And with friends in high places, they are 38 per cent less likely to be detected by regulators. The study also found that firms spend more on lobbyists peddling influence when they ar...
Fraud and IPOs
in Sox First, on March 31, 2008
...in funding without misrepresenting information to outside investors. This study sends a message to regulators and auditors. You can't expect investors to stop or monitor fraud. All they want are ...
The Bear Stearns fallout and a solution
in Sox First, on March 27, 2008
...estment consultancy Independent Strategy warns that the Fed is doing the same thing that Japanese regulators tried during the banking crisis in that country. The result: a decade of uncleansed balan...
Handheld Gaming May Be Headed To Las Vegas
in Play Las Vegas, on March 21, 2008
...e top executives are seen above at the New York stock exchange , has petitioned Nevada casino regulators for permission to field test the controversial devices.
To me this is nothing more than ...
SOX and the Bear deal
in Sox First, on March 19, 2008
... SOX, and it didn't do any good." Meanwhile, serious questions need to be asked about the regulators with the Federal Reserve agreeing to sell Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase & Co....
Spitzer's demise is Wall Street's gain
in Sox First, on March 13, 2008
...trol when almost no one else was." Jay Hancock makes the point perfectly. "While other regulators played pinochle during the worst wave of corporate sleaze in decades, Spitzer had the gut...
Interview with Brett Curran from Axentis
in Sox First, on February 22, 2008
... Sarbanes-Oxley has increased the compliance workload. Now with the losses coming in from subprime, regulators will bring in laws and that will make it worse. Do you think that's the case? CURRA...
Who exposes corporate fraud?
in Sox First, on February 11, 2008
...to pass Sarbanes-Oxley into law following the spate of scandals headed up by Enron, politicians and regulators neglected to look carefully at the issue of whistleblowers. Who actually blows the whis...
IFC Seminar
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 8, 2008
...nking, insurance, and capital markets (particularly collective investment schemes), among financial regulators and market participants. It will be structured around the corporate governance standard...
FCPA prosecutions to increase
in Sox First, on February 8, 2008
...he DoJ and SEC are now targeting specific industries, from medical devices to technology. Also, the regulators have targeted companies doing business in countries where bribery is part of the local bu...
Subprime mess: where was the SEC?
in Sox First, on February 7, 2008
...asleep at the wheel? It's a question examined by Liz Moyer at Forbes . As she points out, the regulators have always had the power to stop the banks from selling derivatives and complex securiti...
Pocket Beemer
in carzz.org, on February 4, 2008
I reported a few weeks back that Rumors were swirling stating that BMW was developing a new range of fuel-efficient city commuter cars. It was also speculated that the company might use the occasion as an opportunity to update one of their iconic microcar names from days of yore.
Cooling Off the Market?
in China Venture News, on January 31, 2008
...in China's history.
China railway Construction Corp. put a proposal last week before regulators for a Shanghai IPO worth about $3 billion.
Together the three deals could suck up as ...
The SEC, Hedge Funds & Market Turmoil
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 29, 2008
... In a HedgeCo story today, SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins recommended that European and US regulators should learn from each other's approach to regulating hedge funds, particularly as the hedge...
Seminar on Islamic Finance - Opportunities and Challenges in Hong Kong
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 15, 2008
... seminar was attended by over 280 delegates including representatives from central banks, financial regulators, prominent commercial bankers, market professionals and legal practitioners from Hong Kon...
