Overhaul Urged for Corporate Oversight
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A long-awaited report from a panel with support from Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. is not recommending reopening corporate accountability legislation but urges a broad overhaul of the nation's rules, enforcement policies and litigation system.
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The US Congress asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Saturday to send lawmakers a report justifying a new rule forcing mutual fund boards to have independent chairmen.
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The country's largest food suppliers, including Kraft Foods, H.J. Heinz and Dole Food, facing congressional food-safety proposals that could cost them millions of dollars a year, proposed yesterday to grant the government more oversight of the industry.
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With the Inspectors General at various government agencies under fire, some are questioning whether an important oversight role is being undermined
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House and Senate members are proposing legislation to slow the revolving door carrying federal regulators into private banks, following revelations of the role played by a former U.S. examiner in the Riggs Bank affair.
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The head of a U.N. inspection office said the world body needed a "major overhaul" of how it procures $1.9 billion in goods annually and called for less secrecy about probes of staff and companies involved.
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Business & money: Tough new regulatory powers to make the Bank of England and the FSA more effective announced
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Businesses need to screen potential employees more carefully, report says.
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A commission assembled revise New York Stateâs financial regulations recommended having one regulator oversee the securities industry, instead of the current four.
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(Associated Press) The Securities and Exchange Commission will propose soon a plan to tighten governance at the nation&#39;s stock exchanges to ensure they are serving the public interest, SEC Chairman William Donaldson said Friday.
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The country's import-safety system has not kept pace with an increase in foreign goods, a panel appointed by President Bush said yesterday. Federal agencies should do a better job of coordinating oversight, the panel said, though it stopped short of calling for a single agency to oversee imports.
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Urgent reforms are needed to the way senior public appointments are made, the standards watchdog says.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will amend its rules on the qualification of independent directors to make it in line with global standards.
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Expressing impatience with the Securities and Exchange Commission, lawmakers said in a hearing yesterday that they will act to force stronger oversight of the influential credit rating business if the agency doesn&#39;t soon move on its own.
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Justice Department officials are revising controversial guidelines for criminal prosecutions of companies in response to pressure from business groups, civil liberties lobbyists and an influential lawmaker who is expected to introduce legislation on the issue early next week.
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The government faces calls to overhaul the way banks are monitored after a report into the  Northern Rock crisis.
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Federal regulators on Tuesday proposed a plan to strengthen governance at the nation&#39;s stock exchanges and move them toward separating their self-policing function from their business operations to ensure that they serve investors&#39; interest.