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in Wangtam, on July 9, 2009
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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...
Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
... Swiss Re warns that climate change litigation is the new asbestos. Only this time, climate change lawsuits will spread faster than anything we saw with asbestos. We are already seeing signs of this...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
... implications for company directors if governments crack down and investors start hitting them with lawsuits.
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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 ...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...ndwater with toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing chromium 6. The allegations are contained in lawsuits filed against the company by residents and watchdog group Environmental World Watch. As det...
Camara vs. the RIAA
in P2P File Sharing, on June 10, 2009
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An unusually aggressive lawyer and his Harvard Law School professor have filed a class action lawsuit against the RIAA for over $100 million...
"Lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the re...
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 and ag...
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 9, 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 Madoff ...
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...
OIN Seeks Prior Art in TomTom Patent Suit
in HackITLinux, on May 1, 2009
...ommunity members searching for prior art that could prevent Microsoft from wielding them in future lawsuits," writes ChannelWeb's Kevin McLaughlin .
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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 ...
Taiwan Approves Three-Strikes Law
in P2P File Sharing, on April 30, 2009
...the bill is designed to encourage self-correction by users while discouraging excessively punitive lawsuits against small-time infringers," writes Billboard's Thibault Worth . "In addit...
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.
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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...
The Pirate Bay Goes to Jail
in P2P File Sharing, on April 17, 2009
The founders of The Pirate Bay were found guilty today, with a sentence of a year in prison and $3.6 million in damages. "Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were found guilty in the case, along with Carl Lundström, who was accused of fundin...
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...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...e contracts are as airtight as those who have read them say, breaking them would invite a series of lawsuits the government would surely lose. Why is that a good idea? Yes, the government could pour t...
New directions on the IFRS roadmap
in Sox First, on March 25, 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 26, 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 16, 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 28, 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...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...utures contract or other financial instrument? If they do act rationally, then the market prices of securities accurately capture their true value, based on all information available. The Madoff scam ...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 13, 2009
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Hedge fund managers are now conceding that Bernard Madoff has probably achieved what the Securities and Exchange Commission's Christopher Cox could never do: usher in strict new regulations fo...
Fixing the financial system
in Sox First, on January 12, 2009
...nted by the Congress and the president for 10-year terms on a staggered basis. Under his model, the Securities and Exchange Commission would have its powers wound back, and be responsible only for dis...
Subprime meltdown drives litigation
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
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The financial meltdown is driving litigation. New data released in the Securities Class Action Filings: 2008 Year End Assessment , from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford University Law Schoo...
Diagnosing the liquidity and credit crunch
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
...h diversification, assets issued by these vehicles received a better rating than did the individual securities in the pool.1 In addition, issuing short-term assets improved the overall rating even fur...
Small ISP Says RIAA Has to Pay
in P2P File Sharing, on January 1, 2009
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Following the RIAA's recent announcement that it's going to stop suing individuals for pirating music and will instead ask ISPs to crack down on file sharers, Jerry Scroggin, who runs the small ISP Bayou Internet and Communications , s...
Fair value blow for banks
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has given the banking a much deserved kick in the guts by releasing a 211 page report that fends off the banks' claim that fair value created the finan...
Winners and losers for 2008
in Sox First, on December 30, 2008
...gest loser. Not far behind that come Yahoo investors, Bernard Madoff's clients, the incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago School of Economics which for long had peddled the l...
Madoff's insanity defense
in Sox First, on December 29, 2008
...estments, lines of credit, loans, business interests, brokerage accounts, and other holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission by New Year's Eve. As Bloomberg points out, it will provide...
Cox defends his legacy
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
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Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox has defended his regime in a way that would just leave the public gob-smacked. The culture of slack oversight allowed US financial inst...
The Madoff scandal: now for the auditors
in Sox First, on December 23, 2008
...ned to comment further. "After Mr. Madoff's arrest on December 11, investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission showed up at the Madoff firm's headquarters in Manhattan and ...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
...erts in this area, could have overlooked the red flags. Meanwhile TPM Muckraker reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is now in a complete state of panic over its complete failure to ...
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SEC: porn, conflicts of interest and private businesses
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
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The Securities and Exchanges Commission has had quite a shellacking over the last week over its ineptitude and turning a blind eye to Bernard Madoff's scam. An Office of Inspector General (O...
Insurance brokers warn
in Sox First, on December 19, 2008
...n't looking good, and accountants should start to worry. With the credit crisis, the number of securities class actions has nearly doubled this year, according to NERA Economic Consulting . Now...
Madoff: why the SEC dropped the investigation
in Sox First, on December 18, 2008
...tead getting house arrest in his $7 million apartment, The Wall Street Journal tells us that the Securities and Exchange Commission had him cold on multiple violations back in 2006 but let him off ...
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
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The Securities and Exchange has switched into damage control mode with SEC chairman Christopher Cox announcing an in-house investigation into why it did not detect the $50 billion fraud case soo...
Bernanke the banker
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
... few quarters the Federal Reserve will purchase large quantities of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities to provide support to the mortgage and housing markets, and it stands ready to expand its...
More law suits for big tobacco
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
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In a 5 to 4 decision, the US Supreme Court has opened the door to a flood of lawsuits against tobacco companies with a ruling that smokers can sue over the way they promote light and low tar brand...
How Madoff played the SEC for suckers
in Sox First, on December 15, 2008
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Over the weekend, I did a blog entry condemning the Securities and Exchange Commission for ignoring the warnings it was receiving about swindler Bernard Madoff. Now Bloomberg reports that the...
The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?
in Sox First, on December 14, 2008
... faceless organizations owned by other equally faceless organizations, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC harks back to an earlier era in the financial world: The owner's name is on the d...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
... 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? More to the point, why did...
George W rewrites history
in Sox First, on December 12, 2008
...he tax cuts fed the housing bubble. "With China and other foreign countries absorbing Treasury securities directly, and U.S. corporations still coming off of their late-90's investment binge,...
How the predication models failed
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
...e securitization of the mortgage market, with loans sold off and mixed into large pools of mortgage securities, has prompted lenders to move increasingly to automated underwriting systems, relying mai...
AIG's bigger bailout
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
...overnment may be betting that its involvement will encourage AIG's trading partners to sell the securities tied to the CDS contracts to the new entity. Once it holds the securities, AIG could canc...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
...ow Deutsche Bank had used that to disguise a loss as a profit. Now, CFO.com reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board have bent the rules, all...
Deutsche Bank's accounting shell games
in Sox First, on November 5, 2008
... crisis, but it won't solve the problem. When financial markets were up, such assets as loans, securities, derivatives, mortgages, property, also rose in value, showing the banks to be strongly c...
Fair value battle escalates
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
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The fight over fair value continues with a Securities and Exchange Commission roundtable set to look at the fair value, or mark-to-market issue. As CNN suggests, we can expect to see some firewo...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
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The name of the game now is competing for a slice of the bailout. Insurers, automakers, securities dealers and banking types are all lining up for a slice of the action with the Financial Services...
Credit ratings agencies: we sold our souls to the devil
in Sox First, on October 23, 2008
...ter who headed mortgage ratings at Standard&Poor's. In other words, a business model where securities issuers paid the agencies to issue ratings created inevitable conflicts. The question is ...
Prosper.com: No New Loans
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...rising and:
Prosper stopped allowing lenders to make new loans, saying it needed to wait while the Securities and Exchange Commission evaluated its regulatory filings.
Monthly loan volumes at the co...
