Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Obama names next heads of SEC and CFTC

US president-elect Barack Obama has named the next leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) following his call for "a 21st century regulatory framework to ensure a crisis like this can never…

Mark to market needs refining, not scrapping - SEC

Christopher Cox, chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), backed fair-value accounting in a speech to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants last week, but said some aspects, particularly rules on impairment, needed…

Dinallo backtracks on regulating CDSs

New York State insurance superintendent Eric Dinallo shelved plans to bring a large slice of the credit default swap (CDS) market under the purview of the New York State Insurance Department (NYSID) during a US congressional committee hearing on November…

Bank of America and RBC in ARS settlement

Bank of America and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) yesterday agreed to buy back up to $5.5 billion of auction rate securities (ARS) they issued, becoming the latest banks to reach an agreement in principle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

SEC extends short selling ban

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended its ban on the short selling of financial stocks to October 17, in order to give the US Congress time to vote through measures aimed at stabilising the financial markets.

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