10/27/2014
Private equity and hedge fund managers, prodded by their institutional clients, are taking compliance more seriously as federal examiners and enforcers up their game targeting practices they say put investors at a disadvantage.
10/27/2014
Former hedge fund manager Rajarengan “Rengan” Rajaratnam has agreed to pay more than USD840,000 and accept securities industry bars in order to settle the Securities and Exchange Comission’s (SEC) insider trading case against him.
10/26/2014
Gambino was an associate general counsel and a managing director who worked for the German bank for 11 years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported his death.
10/23/2014
The brokerage industry, after all, outspends the RIA industry. SIFMA spends $2 million a year in lobbying dollars, while the Financial Planning Association spends $40,000, said Bill Prewitt, founder of Charleston Financial Advisors.
10/23/2014
A month after Bingham McCutchen’s management disclosed to its partnership plans to merge with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, lingering issues remain over what a combined firm might look like.
10/22/2014
For the second time this year, a shareholder derivative case against Citigroup's directors that alleged they should be held personally liable for losses stemming from the bank's misstatement of LIBOR, has been rejected by the Commercial Division
10/17/2014
U.S. regulators brought their first-ever manipulation case against a high-frequency trading firm on Thursday, saying it used a computer algorithm to affect closing prices through a series of rapid-fire trades.