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19 Jan 2011, 7:38 pm
Today, in a speech to the Mortgage Bankers Association summit on loan servicing, Sheila Bair, obviously auditioning for her post-July job as the head of a consumer advocacy group (or keeping Liz Warren's seat warm at Harvard), called for the creation of a BP-like "foreclosure claims commission" to award compensation to the billions (no, make that bazillions)of homeowners who've been screwed in some form or fashion during the loan modification… [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 11:45 pm
Although most of the Chinese companies that Kelley and his associates brought to the United States saw brief spikes in their share prices, nearly all have become long-term losers. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 9:58 am
Senate has approved a comprehensive tax package that includes a one-year extension of the Department of Treasury's Section 1603 program, also known as the cash-grant program.Various organizations and trade associations have been lobbying for the program's extension, saying it has been instrumental in supporting the growth of the renewable energy industry. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 1:13 am
The Financial Services Authority (the FSA) has recently issued a statement on the status and implications of the open letter it sent to the insurance industry in August 2010 setting out common point of sale failings for PPI sales.Please click here to review an earlier blog on the FSA's PPI reforms, including the open letter.The statement is in response to the British Bankers' Association's (the BBA) legal challenge to the… [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 1:04 am
(Disclosure: No one associated with Sharesleuth.com has any position, short or long, in SinoCoking's stock.) [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 8:08 am
Chinese companies tend to use NYC lawyers for their IPOs because the investment bankers require this. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 11:15 am
In a speech Tuesday to the British Bankers' Association, Lord Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) discussed a new approach to regulation in the U.K. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 12:41 pm
United States (09-979); British American Tobacco v. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 4:34 am
Brian Pitman, the banker who led Lloyds TSB to become one of Europe's largest financial groups, has died at age 78, the British Bankers' Association said Friday. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 7:26 am
Ladbrokes, a major British bookmaker, says its employees took Mr. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 1:53 am
More Americans likely supported the British Crown at the time of the revolution than support our Congress today. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 1:21 pm
It's that time of year again, when bankers can expect those five- and six-figure bonuses. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 3:58 pm
” Lorrie Fingerhubble, of the British Association of Giant Nocturnal Lizards, welcomed the news. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 6:32 am
And if you disagree with that, you have a bone of contention not only with me, but with the Chairman of the British Bankers' Association, Stephen Green, who has said exactly the same thing in very similar words, when he argued that ‘in recent years, banks have chased short-term profits by introducing complex products of no real use to humanity', and when he recognised that… [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 9:14 am
Focusing tightly on the merits of the case also increases the risk of undervaluing the transaction costs associated with continuing to trial. [read post]
29 Mar 2009, 6:06 am
Last Friday, as two Scottish bankers walked through Haymarket station, a Big Issue salesman who they brushed past shouted after them: "I may be homeless, but at least I'm not a banker. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 2:22 pm
A spokesman for the banker said he will not be commenting on the attack. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 3:10 am
The banker refused, and British authorities cooperating with the DEA froze the account. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 9:10 am
The Director of the FSA's Treating Customers Fairly initiative (TCF) has given a speech on firms' progress toward meeting the December 2008 deadline for implementation, showing that while advances have been made, much work still needs to be done.Speaking at the 6th Annual British Bankers Association Treating Customers Fairly Seminar, Sarah Wilson praised the "very good work" done by some firms but added that others had not really… [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 5:16 pm
To that effect, here's a quote from a Bloomberg article today (HT: Calculated Risk; all emphasis added): The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, that banks charge each other for such loans climbed 431 basis points to an all-time high of 6.88 percent today, the British Bankers' Association said. [read post]
