State Regulation
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Settlement spotlights upstart N.Y. regulator
By Staff WriterHow did a state regulator manage to jump ahead of the feds, threaten to take away a global banks state license and secure a settlement that will put millions of dollars into a general fund New York could desperately use?
August 14, 2012
Standard Chartered to Pay $340M Over Iran Laundering AllegationsThe settlement resolves an investigation into whether the British bank schemed with the Iranian government to launder $250 billion from 2001 to 2007.
August 14, 2012
Standard Chartered CEO Comes to New YorkPeter Sands, the CEO of Standard Chartered, is in New York and is prepared to attend a hearing ordered by the states Department of Financial Services on whether the bank should lose its charter to operate there.
August 10, 2012
New York on Solid Ground to Sanction Standard Chartered, Experts SayExperts in the U.S. and abroad say that the bank's internal e-mails give the New York regulator a basis for its unilateral action.
August 09, 2012
Britain Could Leave EU: BlairFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain is deeply worried over the possibility that Britain could say farewell to the European Union.
August 08, 2012
PPACA: Conservatives Win Big in Kansas Senate PrimariesSome Republican voters said they saw a vote in the primary as a way to oppose PPACA.
August 08, 2012
PPACA: Conservatives Win Big in Kansas Senate PrimariesSome Republican voters said they saw a vote in the primary as a way to oppose PPACA.
August 08, 2012
Dallas Fed’s Fisher: U.S at Risk of Overprescribing ‘Monetary Ritalin’Fishers comments come in response to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston presidents call for more stimulus.