British financial regulator to get wider powers: report
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Britain's financial watchdog is to be given new powers to intervene in failing banks to avoid a repeat of the Northern Rock crisis, finance minister Alistair Darling said in an interview out Friday.
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WASHINGTON - 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.
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Regulators would take steps to oust top executives if the board of the government-chartered mortgage funding company doesn't remove them on its own, according to a source close to the situation.
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The European Commission is rolling back a plan to provide greater protection to investors in the $15 trillion European market for corporate and government bonds, bowing to opposition from the worldÂs biggest banks and the financial regulator in London. The commission, based in Brussels, indicated that it would allow traders to police themselves instead of requiring the same data about bonds as it requires for stocks. The Financial Services Authority said it opposed any rules that required banks to provide current prices or the value of securities they buy and sell.
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Federal regulators proposed a plan on Tuesday to strengthen governance at stock exchanges and move them toward separating their self-policing functions from business operations to ensure that they serve investors&#39; interests.
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A radical shake-up of England's planning laws is set to be a proposed by a government-commissioned report.
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The House agreed Wednesday to give the government broader powers to review foreign investments in U.S. power plants, ports and other facilities that could be vulnerable to terror attacks.
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The government will use legislation if the Northern Rock is nationalised, the BBC learns.
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Britain has received a report from U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs on options for the troubled Northern Rock bank and is talking to potential buyers about them, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday.
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The Bank of England acts to ease the credit crunch hitting financial markets, allowing banks to deposit more funds with it.
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BRITAIN&#39;S main financial regulator yesterday confirmed it is monitoring developments in a high-level probe into corruption in the US insurance industry.
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The Bank of England warns of growing risks to the world's banking system as global financial markets expand.
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European insurance groups such asAllianzAxaare set to benefit from a radical overhaul of European Union regulation that will place them under the scrutiny of a single &quot;group supervisor&quot; and potentially free up some of their capital.
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British workers will have to save more and retire later to make up for a looming gap in pension savings, said the author of an official report being released Tuesday.
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A U.S. financial regulator on Tuesday said big investment banks that played a role in the subprime mortgage problems should be required to reinvest in local communities.
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Legislation will be used if the Northern Rock is nationalised, the BBC has learned.
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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.