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The SEC announced that a final judgment was entered against a Russian Trader and his wife for their role in a serial scheme involving insider trading ahead of numerous health care-related acquisitions, tender offers, and other transactions. Also, a final judgment was entered against Igor Poteroba, a former investment banker, for misappropriating highly confidential inside information about those health care transactions, and tipping that information to his friend, Aleksey Koval, who, in turn, tipped Vorobiev. The SEC's complaint alleges that, for over four years, Poteroba, Koval, and Vorobiev

In a World Socialist Web Site ("WSWS") article titled, "The Dodd-Frank Banking Law Five Years On," the WSWS considers the legacy of the Dodd-Frank Act. Referring to Dodd-Frank as "a smokescreen intended to deceive the American public into thinking that something substantive has been done about Wall Street," the article compared the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash to that of the 2008 financial breakdown, reviewing the regulatory responses by the government after each. The WSWS credited the 1929 response for the indictment of leading Wall Street bankers, the break-up of banking empires

A private-sector working group on euro risk-free rates proposed guiding principles for fallback provisions in new contracts for euro-denominated cash products. The European Central Bank provided the secretariat for the working group. The working group highlighted the importance of market participants adequately preparing for a transition to risk-free rates. The new fallback language, according to the working group, should take into account the following principles: new fallback provisions should include a "permanent cessation trigger event"; "trigger events" should be objective; market