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October 14, 2016 9:21 AM
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Washington D.C., Oct. 13, 2016 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a hedge fund advisory firm and a senior research analyst have agreed to settle charges related to their failures to detect insider trading by one of their employees.
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October 14, 2016 9:19 AM
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The Obama administration, in its latest bid to prevent American companies from minimizing U.S. taxes by rebasing abroad, issued final rules on Thursday to combat a key tax-reduction technique known as earnings stripping.
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October 14, 2016 9:18 AM
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The top U.S. securities regulator on Thursday approved major new rules designed to protect mutual fund investors from the effects of a sudden sell-off, but it left for another day some of the dicier issues involved.
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October 13, 2016 10:21 AM
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In antitrust and related areas of economic regulation, private leveraging is risky business. Large firms that use substantial market power in one product to distort competition for a second product are attractive targets for claims of illegal tying or monopolization.
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October 13, 2016 10:21 AM
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Wells Fargo may get a chance to vote on several proposals introduced by ICCR members seeking corporate governance reforms at the next annual meeting.
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October 13, 2016 10:21 AM
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The SEC has proposed a new amendment that would require public filers to include hyperlinks to exhibits (or documents) in their filings.
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October 13, 2016 10:20 AM
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The Business Roundtable has strongly endorsed a link between board diversity and board effectiveness and the creation of long-term shareholder value.
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October 12, 2016 9:50 AM
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ECGI's Working Paper Series
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October 12, 2016 9:48 AM
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The consortium is made up of 15 companies and universities, including McGill University and the École Polytechnique.
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October 12, 2016 9:48 AM
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Herbalife Ltd. claimed victory over Bill Ackman when it settled with the Federal Trade Commission in July, but it’s still fighting the activist hedge-fund manager on every front it can.
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October 12, 2016 9:47 AM
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National accounting firm, BDO USA releases results of annual survey of public company board members on issues covering corporate governance, financial
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October 12, 2016 9:47 AM
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Over the summer, one of the most interesting pieces of corporate governance literature was the Commonsense Corporate Governance Principles.
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October 12, 2016 9:47 AM
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Wells Fargo’s current scandal threatens to topple the giant. The headlines have been just short of horrific: excessive cross-selling to customers, roughly 2 million sham deposit and credit card accounts that employees (driven by incentives) arranged for customers who didn’t need, understand or ask for them.
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October 14, 2016 9:21 AM
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Crowdfunding has emerged in recent years as an alternative financing channel in which entrepreneurs can directly solicit contributions from a large number of investors. In return for their contributions, investors receive non-pecuniary rewards, private benefits, or most recently, monetary payoffs.
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October 14, 2016 9:19 AM
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New SEC rules, which are set to kick in on Friday, have made life more difficult for corporate finance executives by making it more of a hassle to park a company’s cash holdings in some money-market funds.
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October 13, 2016 10:21 AM
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on October 11 that, in fiscal year 2016, it filed 868 enforcement actions exposing financial reporting-related misconduct by companies and their executives and misconduct by registrants and gatekeepers, as the agency continued to enhance its use of data to detect illegal conduct and expedite investigations.
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October 13, 2016 10:21 AM
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Only one of the 25 highest-paid CEOs in 2015 delivered exceptional share price performance during the year, while seven saw their total compensation fall—in one case, by almost 80 per cent.
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October 13, 2016 10:21 AM
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About one in six members of corporate boards at Wisconsin’s biggest public companies is a woman, and gender diversity in the boardroom continued to increase in 2016, a new report shows.
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October 13, 2016 10:20 AM
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Mark Lerohl, president of Radar Capital, meet Victor Dodig, chief executive at CIBC
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October 13, 2016 10:03 AM
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Women only make up about 20 per cent of the boards of S&P 500 companies.
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October 12, 2016 9:49 AM
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Leslie Moonves is planning to seek autonomy from the Redstone family in leading the company if it merges with Viacom.
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October 12, 2016 9:48 AM
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CGI has signed a long-term deal for cloud hosting services with the U.S. Department of Agriculture valued at $824 million.
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October 12, 2016 9:48 AM
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October 12, 2016 9:47 AM
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In a rare bipartisan moment of the 2016 election season, a group of U.S. Senators introduced a bill late last month that would let municipal debt count among “High Quality Liquid Assets” (HQLA), the buffers banks must hold against liquidity shocks since the last financial crisis.
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October 12, 2016 9:47 AM
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On September 19 and 27, 2016, the US Department of Justice announced two False Claims Act settlements that required corporate executives to make substantial monetary payments to resolve their liability. In the first, announced on September 19, North American Health Care Inc. (NAHC) and two individuals—its chairman of the board and a senior vice president of reimbursement—agreed to settle potential False Claims Act liability for a total of $30 million
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