House panel plans hearing on retailers' banks
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The U.S. House Financial Services Committee plans a March 22 hearing on whether to close the federal banking loophole that allows retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc. to operate banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday a public hearing on potential new rules to curb abusive home mortgage lending practices would cover prepayment penalties, low documentation loans and consideration of borrowers' repayment abilities.
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A U.S. House Financial Services  subcommittee will hold a hearing on accounting problems at  mortgage funder Fannie Mae FNM.N next week, the committee  said on Wednesday.
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The chief executive of mortgage  finance company Fannie Mae FNM.N, under fire for alleged  accounting irregularities, will appear before a congressional  panel next week, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday voted to allow workers and retirees to find out from  a federal agency just how severe the shortfalls are in their  companies' pension plans.
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A U.S. House of Representatives  committee on Wednesday said top regulators would testify at a  September 19 hearing on progress in implementing 2002's  post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley reforms.
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A key House lawmaker said yesterday that Congress needs to consider making companies that manage 401(k) plans give clearer, more complete information on fees, which can drain thousands of dollars from a worker's retirement savings.
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Massachusetts lawmakers are about to  consider a bill that would require retailers to pay for losses  when hackers and thieves breach their security systems to steal  consumers' credit card and other financial information, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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A House committee said it would hold hearings into why the agency is withholding 24,000 responses to a government-sponsored safety survey.
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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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House panel on Tuesday is expected to approve bill aimed at regulating how American companies operate in China and other foreign locales notorious for censorship.
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Stock investors will look to earnings  reports from retailers Federated Department Stores Inc.   and Target Corp.  next week as well as new soundings on  consumer sentiment as they to try to get a handle on the state  of the U.S. economy.
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The U.S. House of Representatives may vote on a pretexting bill that would allow the FTC to fine companies that engage in the practice.
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U.S. and European banks including  Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling  sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire  units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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The chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee yesterday announced that he plans to hold hearings into allegations that the Navy sidestepped procurement rules while purchasing hundreds of floating boat barriers and underwater sensors to protect U.S. ships from attack.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee on September 20, a spokesman for the panel said on Thursday.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chief  Executive Mark Hurd will testify to a House subcommittee on the  company's leak probe, HP said on Thursday, hours after the  panel's top Democrat said he should appear at a hearing.