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City Spy: Shining some light on Defence bids

07.09.09
The Gray report on defence procurement talks of £2.5 billion annual cost overruns on various MoD projects. One solution is to democratise the whole government procurement process... more

Pay plan for fraud tipsters

04.09.09
US regulators were today looking at plans to pay huge rewards to whistleblowers in cases of financial wrongdoing in the wake of the Bernard Madoff fraud scandal ... more

SEC failures on Madoff

03.09.09
Bernard Madoff thought his vast fraud was going to be exposed two years before he was finally caught, but regulators failed to act ... more

WORLD: Stanford to appear in court on fraud charges

19.06.09
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford is to appear in a federal court in Virginia over allegations of massive fraud involving his Antigua bank, after he surrendered to the FBI... more

Obama to shake up SEC after blunders

20.05.09
Barack Obama is contemplating stripping Wall Street regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, of some of its powers next week ... more

SEC lawyers probed for insider trading

15.05.09
Two lawyers at America's Securities & Exchange Commission are facing allegations of insider trading ... more

'Two years of lies' kept SEC at bay

11.03.09
The authorities were finally onto Bernard Madoff more than two years before his ultimate arrest last December. But he avoided them by lying... more

Stanford's 'ice maiden' charged with blocking $8bn fraud case

27.02.09
American authorities have filed the first criminal charges against Sir Allen Stanford's financial empire after his chief investment officer was accused of lying to investigators... more

Stanford’s ‘ice maiden’ charged with blocking $8bn fraud case

27.02.09
American authorities have filed the first criminal charges against Sir Allen Stanford’s financial empire after his chief investment officer was accused of lying to investigators... more

Chairman of the board – at £56,000 a time

07.01.09
Chief executives may be in the spotlight during the new puritanism but keep an eye on the rampant pay inflation for part-time chairmen... more

Madoff gives investigators a tally of what is left

02.01.09
Scandal: Bernard Madoff has provided investigators with a list of his assets as they untangle the details of the £35 billion Ponzi scheme he is alleged to have operated... more

Dr Doom of Wall St is big loser with Madoff

31.12.08
Scandal: Top Wall Street economist, Henry Kaufman, dubbed Dr Doom for his bearish predictions, has emerged as a big loser in the Bernard Madoff scandal... more

US regulator: We failed to stop Madoff

18.12.08
The alarm bells in the $50 billion fraud by disgraced American financier Bernard Madoff had been ringing for years but US regulators admitted they ignored them... more

Obama hands veteran the job of restoring watchdog's image

18.12.08
Regulation: Veteran regulator Mary Schapiro is to get the tricky job of restoring confidence in key US watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission under the new Barack Obama administration... more

US watchdog to probe own links with Madoff niece

17.12.08
Scandal: US regulators have launched a full-scale probe into their failings over the Madoff scandal... more

Watchdog 'knew of problems a decade ago'

17.12.08
American regulators have ordered a full-scale internal inquiry into how they failed to spot the Madoff scandal... more

Point the finger at Hank not Bill… if you must

07.10.08
It would be harsh and largely ridiculous to blame one man for the unfolding financial crisis, but if you feel in unforgiving mood Hank Paulson will do... more

US ready to ease rules on toxic debt values

01.10.08
Finance: America's banks were last night promised clearer and easier rules on how to value toxic debts, which could help them to bolster their balance sheets... more

McCain says he would sack the SEC chief

19.09.08
Markets: Presidential hopeful John McCain says he would sack the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — his fellow Republican Christopher Cox — for allowing financial markets to be used as “a casino”... more

World’s watchdogs divided on how to tackle the crisis

19.09.08
Shares: The ban on short-selling by the FSA is described as part of a co-ordinated global strategy to help financial markets recover... more

FSA’s curb necessary, right – and overdue

19.09.08
The clampdown on short-selling in financial stocks is in fact a vitally necessary and overdue measure... more

US drops curbs on short selling

11.08.08
Restrictions are to be lifted this week with evidence mounting that the measures failed... more

SEC team starts Siemens probe

06.08.08
US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating billion-pound slush-funds... more

HBOS boss spins his way out of trouble - for now

01.08.08
With the bank results reporting season in full swing, this year's sweet-talking-of-investors tactic is becoming clearer... more

US crackdown on short selling

30.07.08
Security regulators in the US have extended an emergency rule to curb the short selling of major firms' stocks... more

Short-selling probe targets hedge funds

15.07.08
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sent subpoenas to more than 50 hedge-fund advisers as part of its investigation into whether individuals spread false rumours to manipulate shares of two Wall Street firms... more

Let's be minus rating agencies

26.06.08
Companies pay the agencies to rate their securities, creating a conflict of interest. It is as if one side in a football match paid the referee... more

SEC shuts door on rating firms

24.06.08
US watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is planning to sideline ratings agencies that have come under fire for failing to predict the subprime crisis and subsequent credit crunch... more

Bear Stearns in SEC line of fire as its profits plunge

15.04.08
Bear Stearns reveals it is facing civil charges by the US Securities and Exchange Commission... more

Cameron ally's hedge fund closes after SEC complaint

26.03.08
Pentagon Capital Management becomes the latest to fall victim to the credit crunch... more

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