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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, ...
Britian Using Genetic Tests on Asylum Seekers
in Global Mobility Report, on November 12, 2009
...ovoking outrage from rights groups. The British government says that the genetic tests have shown a fraud rate of 87% in cases where asylum seekers claim to be related to each other. In the US, langua...
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...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ffington Post that maybe insider trading shouldn't even be illegal, claiming that it would expose fraud earlier, it would put more information out in the market and that companies will become more t...
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...
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...
Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
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It was just a matter of time. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read th...
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...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
... at best.
Truth be told, in-house processes that go unwatched and unmanaged are often sources of fraud. However, management usually does watch (at least at some level), reducing the risks posed by...
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...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
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...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
...udi Arabia, Europe and Africa. Or will the Justice Department put pressure on Britain's Serious Fraud Office to do the same and target the individuals? ...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...quot;Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon market." So what sort of fraud would it be? The most obvious would be claiming credits for forests that don't exist. Ther...
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...
Elderly turn to bank robbery in recession
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
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Back in July, I did a blog entry looking at hiow bank robberies, fraud and other crimes were booming because of the recession. Now we have further evidence of the recession's impact with ...
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...
BAE brought to justice (finally)
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...Saudi Arabian government. As I pointed out here , the uproar broke out after Britain's Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into the alleged bribery allegations. Now, it looks like the...
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... ...s SEC report into the regulator's failure to stop Madoff and why it turned a blind eye to the frauds he was perpetrating. According to the report, SEC examiners found Madoff to be totally charm...
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...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
... banker Bradley Birkenfeld was this week sentenced to three years four months for conspiring to defraud the US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actua...
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...
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...
No bail for Black
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
... have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's cha...
Climate change junket for Congress
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
Diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, waking up in a plush hotel in Waikiki and spending New Years Eve in Christchurch watching fire works. All part of the job for members of Congress who went on a fact finding mission to investigate climate change. According to The Wall Street Journa...
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...
Sipera Systems Launches UC-Sec 100 Security Appliance
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 7, 2009
...rk and protection against VoIP and UC security vulnerabilities and zero day threats, including toll fraud, eavesdropping and data theft," writes eWeek's Nathan Eddy .
"Like all Sipera...
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 ...
Recession-fuelled crime wave
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...economy expected to contract by 4.2%. In recession-stricken Britain, the Daily Mail reports that fraud by company directors is up 313%. Petty theft has risen massive 25%, shoplifting 10% and drug o...
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...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-07-11
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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
... you own a home in Los Angeles, watch out for the scammers. Your city leads the nation in mortgage fraud , according to the FBI's annual mortgage fraud review.
The FBI's Los Angeles field of...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a Hesperia, Calif., homeowner who thought she was working with ...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
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The global stimulus packages are likely to provide massive opportunities for fraud, according to a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 ...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 22, 2009
As the number of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams.
The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or those who are facing foreclosure. They promise to modify these homeowners'...
NFL Week 6
in End Zone Buzz, on June 19, 2009
...nd promised to appear in Texas to face burglary and like 7 counts of drug related charges involving fraud and delivery.
Ouch!
So I wonder... as a disgruntled fan, can I get a refund out of some of...
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 ...
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-17
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Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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Bernard Madoff, who has pleaded guilty to 11 charges of fraud, money laudnering, perjury and theft, faces up to 150 years in jail. And his victims want exactly that! The New York Times reports ...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
... the Australian Crime Commission that organized crime syndicates could cash in on the pandemic with fraud, robbery and a black market in bootleg medicine. The Commission warned: "Criminal groups ...
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...
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...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
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Conrad Black's appeal against his fraud conviction will have massive implications on the system, regardless of what the decision is. Black, as we know, was convicted two year ago of a a $6.1-m...
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...
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...
TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-05
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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...
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....
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 ...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
...nce, and people start spending again. But William Black , Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention warns that this amounts to a cover up. In an interview with Bill Moyers , Black sa...
