FTC looks into debt-aid firms
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The telemarketer at the other end of Orlando Castelblanco&#39;s line promised to reduce the consumer&#39;s credit card debt by at least $2,500 and get his 20 percent -- and growing -- interest rates down to single digits.
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Banks that produce complex and illiquid derivative products that have been at the heart of the credit squeeze may be forced to provide more information about them on public stock exchanges.
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UK chancellor Alistair Darling joins calls for a probe into the role credit agencies played  in the world financial crisis.
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More vendors report a number of regulatory agencies in different countries are looking into claims of price fixing.
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Investment banks and specialist asset managers are working hard to be first to offer commercial real estate collateralised debt obligations in Europe
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible fraud or insider trading violations in connection with loans made to risky borrowers, and investments spun off of those loans.
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The S.E.C. is looking at whether unwinding financing vehicles like conduits could strain the balance sheets of major investment banks.
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The FTC is set to investigate word-of-mouth advertising in which paid shills pretend to be average consumers. In Game|Life.
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An investigation by the New York Attorney General has insurance companies in Canada scurrying to review their commission policies.
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The Federal Reserve Board and other federal and state regulators announced plans yesterday to review the practices of lenders who are significant players in the troubled subprime home mortgage market, which typically caters to borrowers with blemished credit.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has joined the increasing number of creditors willing to consider granting Indonesia debt relief to help cushion the massive financial impact of the Aceh and North Sumatra calamity.
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Investment firm, which has a small stake in Macrovision, calls on other investors to scrutinize rationale for the deal.
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The Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into complaints of deceptive marketing by student-loan providers, widening the scope of ethics probes into the $85 billion-a-year industry.
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D.C.-based business financing provider Allied Capital Corp. on Monday said it received last week a federal request for information related to a criminal investigation involving the company and its Business Loan Express LLC segment.
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Securities regulators are probing several brokerage firms dealing with collateralized mortgage obligations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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The Competition Commission's inquiry into store cards, will investigate interest rates, the body announces.
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Players in the $2 trillion municipal bond market face investigations.