World finance watchdogs focus on opaque derivatives market
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The world's three most powerful financial regulators want to tighten up derivatives markets, where explosive growth in recent times has sparked fears of a potential financial disaster.
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London banks warned London investment banks face the likelihood of closer regulation of derivatives trading in the wake of the rogue trader debacle that cost French bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale an estimated â¬4.9bn ($7.2bn).â¦
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- If you&#39;re a money manager, there&#39;s a lesson to be learned from a scenario unreeled by the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week.
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After escaping a rising tide of subprime defaults earlier this year, leading U.S. investment banks and brokerages face an opaque offshoot of those risky mortgages.
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Players in the $2 trillion municipal bond market face investigations.
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Troubles among U.S. bond insurers are forcing regulators to rethink a 1998 loophole that let an industry expand into the complex and now costly world of derivatives, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Tuesday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the near-collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that made bad bets on the mortgage market.
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The US is to review financial market rules, to ensure that they do not harm the nation's ability to compete globally.
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The downwardly volatile global markets are sure of one thing: decoupling of the U.S. and the rest of the world isn't a reality yet
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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 Nasdaq Stock Market's efforts to buy the London Stock Exchange PLC is another milestone in globalization, and touches the world of IT. As exchanges merge and increase the fluidity of funds globally, a new world of competitive options open.
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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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After escaping a rising tide of  subprime defaults earlier this year, leading U.S. investment  banks and brokerages face an opaque offshoot of those risky  mortgages.
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The move to start a formal review of how the U.S. regulates financial markets and hedge funds comes amid concerns over competition from overseas trading capitals.
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Investors are keeping an eye on sequential numbers.
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Securities regulators are reviewing  whether investment banks' trades in shares of companies linked  to M&A deals they were advising were based on coincidence or  inside information, according to The Wall Street Journal on  Monday.
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This year the leaders of some of the worldâs most respected financial institutions have been caught either unaware or uninformed about giant risks their companies took.