Treasury to review financial services rules
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The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday said it was launching a review of the U.S. financial regulatory structure as part of its efforts to ensure the competitiveness of U.S. capital markets.
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Embattled Financial Services Authority promises "root and branch" review of Northern Rock crisis.
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Lawmakers this fall will consider stricter rules for credit rating agencies amid criticism they failed to accurately assess -- or warn investors about -- the risks that mortgage investments posed to financial markets.
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The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service Monday gave some breathing room to companies that will be forced to restructure their executive pay plans to comply with new restrictions on deferred compensation that Congress enacted this fall.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson   has launched a review of disaster planning for the financial   markets, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24  â The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced the formation of two advisory groups to develop recommendations for best practices in the operation of hedge funds, the giant pools of capital that were heavily involved in the recent turmoil in the financial markets.
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Hedge fund advisers will have to  register with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and  submit to examinations under a new rule approved on Tuesday in  a 3-2 vote by the market-policing agency.
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Whether mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae will have to restate its earnings as a result of accounting problems cited by regulators will be up to the Securities and Exchange Commission to consider, a company executive said Tuesday.
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Treasury chief is looking for a financial instrument to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
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U.S. regulators plan to probe how the  major credit-rating agencies are paid and their independence  from Wall Street firms that issue bonds amid the crisis in the  mortgage market, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online  edition on Friday.
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U.S. lenders would have to determine  that a borrower can afford a mortgage before making the loan  under a Federal Reserve staff proposal on new regulations  released on Tuesday.
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Regulators plan to probe how the major credit-rating agencies are paid and their independence from Wall Street firms that issue bonds, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Friday.
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Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance giant, said yesterday that its regulator would review the benefits the company planned to pay its former top two officers, Franklin D. Raines and J. Timothy Howard, after their ouster last week.
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Treasury select committee to interview chancellor in widening inquiry into stability of financial markets.
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World finance ministers said they would scrutinize the sector closely with an eye toward encouraging more self-regulation.
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The House Financial Services Committee will draft legislation requiring U.S. hedge funds to keep copies of trading data and will take a closer look at the role of credit rating agencies in the collapse of some funds linked to subprime mortgages, the panel chairman said on Wednesday.
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The examiner appointed to probe the collapse of subprime mortgage lender New Century Financial has sought a judge's authorization to investigate the company's dealings with its auditor, KPMG.