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US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... around the world. The New York Times has reported that US Treasury will today formally announce its plan to merge the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and extend the powers of the Federal Reserve ...

ASIC investigates Opes Prime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
Opes Prime Stockbroking is under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after the firm found a number of cash and stock movement irregularities in a small number of accounts. ASIC has created a team, which will ...

S&P hits back on CalPERS' claims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... spokesperson, Sharon Beach. "It is interesting at a time when rating agencies are being criticised for rating some securitised securities too highly, that we are being criticised in this instance for rating too low - further evidence to our independence," ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... terrorism by launching a new terror-free index. FTSE has teamed up with terror-free investment screening house Conflict Securities Advisory Group to launch the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free Index Series. The index is based on the FTSE Global Equity Index Series ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was two points higher at 5391 on 10,780 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said strong commodity prices in London overnight were helping to ...

CalPERS calls for ratings overhaul

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... have become insolvent or are at risk of insolvency. "As a result, your agencies have been forced to downgrade those securities, as well as the ratings of some of the bond issuers who guaranteed them. Meanwhile, the vast majority of municipal issuers ...

FPA to provide PI insurance to members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... will not be required to source and then negotiate individual deals." The FPA was prompted to act after the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) released the Regulatory Guide 126 and the Financial Industry Complaints Scheme (FICS) increased ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the IMF, in a speech this week. In particular is how the banking systems and securities markets failed simultaneously, he said. But what's worrying the IMF even more is that solutions central banks have been ...

Austock teams with Cantor

... contact US institutional investors and settle transactions through Cantor in compliance with Rule 15a-6 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act 1934. "The US is home to many important investors and this partnership is a further milestone in Austock's ...

ASIC zones in on accountants pushing SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... Managed Super Fund (SMSF) clients without the proper license will be penalised accordingly, Louise DuPre, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) adviser said. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) conference ...