financial-markets

Former CEO Mr. Woodford, who is British, said he will meet next Thursday with the police, prosecutors and Japan's financial-markets watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission.

Olympus Pushes to Overcome Scandal Juro Osawa 2011

The standoff, if unresolved, could hamper the agency just as it is trying to establish itself as a tough financial-markets regulator.

Dodd-Frank Omission Sparks Dispute Maya Jackson Randall 2012

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a key plank of the Dodd-Frank financial law Congress passed last year, is set to open its doors next month as a new financial-markets cop.

Consumer Bureau Official Seeks to Ease Bankers' Fears Maya Jackson Randall 2011

Their best hope may be to encourage the EC to look beyond immediate competition concerns to longer-term shifts in Europe's financial-markets.

Deutsche Börse's Last Throw of the Merger Dice Matthew Curtin 2011

The bureau will gain authority to enforce the CARD Act when it formally starts up as a financial-markets cop this summer.

Increases in Card Rates Ease Maya Jackson Randall 2011

The deal would cement both Chicago-based CME and McGraw-Hill's positions as top purveyors of financial-markets information, potentially posing a larger threat to MSCI Inc., a publicly traded competitor that was outbid by CME last year for Dow Jones Indexes.

Deal Would Unite S&P With DJIA Gina Chon 2011

WASHINGTON—White House adviser Elizabeth Warren, in a heated House hearing Tuesday, touted the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a vital new financial-markets cop while Republican lawmakers slammed the agency as a powerful financial regulator with too few checks and balances.

House GOP, Warren Spar Over Consumer Bureau Maya Jackson Randall 2011

This compounds the errors of the various financial-markets directives such as MiFID and the Prospectus Directive.

Europe's Single Market Isn't a Free Market Philip Booth 2011

In the last three months of the year, when the European financial crisis took an especially severe toll on financial-markets activity, Barclays's pretax profits tumbled to £528 million from about £1.5 billion a year earlier.

Barclays Hits a Rough Patch David Enrich 2012

Andrew Bach , head of network services for NYSE Euronext, said the system is "a generational shift in thinking" and "looks likes it's going to deliver markedly improved latency," or reduce the time it takes data to traverse the network, a key factor for the financial-markets operator.

Juniper to Unveil New Networking System Cari Tuna 2011