11/13/2014
New York Federal Reserve Looks to Expand RRP Repo Counterparties
The statement reads: "Effective today, the New York Fed is accepting applications from firms interested in becoming a counterparty eligible to participate in RRP transactions with the New York Fed.
11/12/2014
Investment Management is operating in a world of more – more regulation, more transparency, more meaningful investment information and more control.
11/12/2014
The move follows similar disclosures by JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Citigroup that signal banks in the U.S. and abroad are facing allegations that they manipulated foreign-exchange rates.
11/12/2014
Foreign-exchange related investigations resolved with FINMA, CFTC, FCA
11/12/2014
As of the end of September 2014, alt funds account for $242 billion of industry AUM.
11/12/2014
San Francisco hedge fund founder Doug Whitman has been denied a new trial on his insider trading case which earned him two years in jail, the WSJ reports
11/12/2014
The ruling more than doubles a jury's award in June.
11/11/2014
First Investment Crowdfunding Platform to Stumble on General Solicitation Requirements
11/11/2014
For the first time, the state's highest court confirmed that New York common law prevents a court from freezing a civil judgment debtor's assets held in foreign bank accounts.
11/11/2014
Barclays Plc (BARC), HSBC Holdings Plc and four other banks were accused in a lawsuit by U.S. soldiers of helping Iran process billions of dollars in transfers and finance terrorists who attacked Americans serving in Iraq.
11/11/2014
Banks suspected of rigging the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market are preparing to reach settlements as early as this week with the main U.S. derivatives regulator
11/11/2014
Quynh has a strong skill set, extensive experience
11/11/2014
Christina Kelly, whose rancorous divorce from Jefferies Group LLC investment banker Sage Kelly has inflamed New York’s tabloids, issued a statement praising him as a “great father” and apologizing to the firm as the pair reached a tentat
11/10/2014
Efforts to combat money laundering hurting established businesses in Tijuana
11/10/2014
When JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to lead a $700 million bond offering for Russian natural gas producer Gazprom, it was doing business that some U.S. banks are afraid to do, several lawyers and a banker said.
11/10/2014
Almost nobody cares when the government mistreats giant banks
Regulators and giant banks agree to ignore contractual rights.
11/10/2014
Mr Wyly, 80, who last appeared on Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans in 2010 with a net worth of $1bn, is responsible for about two-thirds of damages and has filed for bankruptcy, saying he cannot afford the SEC’s claim as well as poten
11/10/2014
A Manhattan PR firm run by a former journalist was hired to help burnish the image of a $10 billion Russian investment fund, an arm of a state-owned bank targeted by sanctions over the invasion of Crimea.
11/10/2014
TV magnate plunks down $1.5M in dicey deal
The crime-TV magnate invested $1.5 million in an April 9 preferred-stock offering organized by Weiner that raised a total of $6 million for DigiPath, a Las Vegas-based provider of lab-testing and pot-education services, sources said.
11/10/2014
U.S. regulators rejected a proposal from BATS Global Markets that would allow it to list and trade actively managed exchange-traded funds that do not have to disclose their holdings on a daily basis.