Tougher rules urged for banks
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Tougher funding standards are needed to prevent a repeat of money market turmoil, the FSA says.
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The European Central Bank's president called on banks Wednesday to disclose how much they could lose in the wake of a financial crisis that has tightened credit conditions.
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The body that decides who will set accounting rules in the United States plans on Tuesday to propose changes aimed at enabling the Financial Accounting Standards Board to act faster.
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The banking industry is proposing to  members of the U.S. Congress and the White House that some of  the risk of troubled mortgages should be shifted to the federal  government, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on  Thursday.
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday will propose a much stricter set of rules for mortgage lenders as part of the central bank's effort to avert abusive lending.
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The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued special guidance Tuesday urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages.
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Global finance chiefs on Saturday  called for a more broad-based effort to calm financial markets,  including tighter scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund  and other institutions of increasingly powerful state-owned  investment funds.
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It will soon be riskier than ever to write a check if you don&#39;t have money in the bank to cover it. Under a law that goes into effect Oct. 28, banks that get checks will be allowed
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The International Monetary Fund called on Mexico&#39;s central bank to switch to an interest-rate setting system similar to the US Federal Reserve&#39;s to make its policies more transparent and predictable.
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A House committee chairman said that he would seek legislation to curb lending abuses if the central bank did not act quickly to do so.
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Banks, which have used a glut of cheap  money to help fuel a boom in real estate and leveraged company  buyouts, may face a rough ride when lending conditions turn  sour, the Bank for International Settlements said on Sunday.
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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. yesterday began an effort to examine regulatory overlap in the financial services sector, citing three recent industry-funded reports that argue a thicket of rules is constricting American business.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal securities regulators are moving to ease some financial-control rules for thousands of smaller public companies at the same time they look to stiffen requirements for individuals to invest in fast-growing hedge funds.
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New rules aim to keep brokerages on the straight and narrow.
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Fannie Mae&#39;s accounting scandal is already provoking louder calls for stronger regulation of the mortgage-investment company and clearer financial reporting.
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Business & money: Bank admits it was warned on more than one occasion amid fierce criticism from shareholders
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A group representing some of the worldâs leading banks will urge the U.S. to introduce a lightly regulated system for trading carbon emissions permits.