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Associated Press:
Bankers and financial industry leaders are criticizing the early efforts of the government’s new consumer finance watchdog, saying a slow and inefficient oversight process has slowed lending and made it more difficult for them to do business.
ILR: Banks say new agency’s oversight is slow, costly
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Verschlagwortet mit CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Financial Services, Nietzer&Häusler, US-Gesellschaftsrecht, Washington
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FCPA: From the Compact Model to the Luxury Model – Managing Your Third Party Risk
I am currently attending the Hanson Wade Oil and Gas Supply Chain Compliance conference in Houston. The event is excellent and the presentations have been ‘spot on’ for the nuts and bolts of how to do compliance. As the conference is in Houston, a number of the speakers and attendees are from energy companies but the concepts that are being discussed apply to all companies which have an anti-corruption or anti-bribery compliance program. Weiterlesen
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Verschlagwortet mit Compact Model, Department of Justice, FCPA, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Hanson Wade Oil and Gas Supply Chain Compliance Conference, Houston, Luxury Model, Nietzer&Häusler, SEC, Third Party Risk, US corporate law
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ILR: Jury Still Out on Schapiro’s SEC Enforcement Legacy
Legal Reform News Daily / Wall Street Journal
WSJ.com Corruption Currents:
The final enforcement stats are in for Mary Schapiro’s tenure at the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it may be to early to make any pronouncements about her legacy.
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Verschlagwortet mit Financial Services, ILR, Institute for Legal Reform, Nietzer&Häusler, SEC, US-Gesellschaftsrecht, Wall Street Journal
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ILR: ‚Judicial Arbitration‘ Is Unconstitutional, Say Newspapers
Legal Reform News Daily / Wall Street Journal
WSJ.com Law Blog:
Should the nation’s premier forum for corporate litigation have the right to arbitrate business disputes in secret?
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Verschlagwortet mit Arbitration - ADR, Corporate Litigation, Delaware, Nietzer&Häusler, US-Gesellschaftsrecht
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The New York Family Office – Newsletter 1. Quartal 2013
U.S.-Newsletter von Arne Volkers: Newsletter_Q1_2013
ILR: EDITORIAL: Never a shortage of ridiculous lawsuits in U.S. courts
Legal Reform News Daily Oklahoman:
After his 12-year-old son – yes, 12 – was sued last year by a woman who got conked by the boy’s errant throw at a Little League baseball game, Bob Migliaccio of Asbury Park, N.J., told his local newspaper he wasn’t shocked because „people sue every day.“ Do they ever.
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Verschlagwortet mit Institute for Legal Reform, Lawsuit Abuse Impact, Nietzer&Häusler, Oklahoma, ridiculous lawsuits, US-Gesellschaftsrecht
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American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
Änderungen der US-Steuern aufgrund der Steuerreform 2012 : BPLLC Newsletter April 2013
ILR: Claims Against Ratings Agencies over Failed Investment Vehicle Can Proceed
American Lawyer: Most efforts to hold ratings agencies liable for the financial crisis have failed, but on Thursday two institutional investors got the green light to proceed with claims that ratings agencies misled them about a $1.1 billion structured investment vehicle called Rhinebridge Plc.
Read more: Claims Against Ratings Agencies over Failed Investment Vehicle Can Proceed
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Verschlagwortet mit American Lawyer, Nietzer&Häusler, Securities Litigation, US Recht
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ILR: In Libor Ruling, a Big Win for the Banks
New York Times | 2013
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of Federal District Court in Manhattan, in a 161-page decision, has given the multinational banks being investigated for manipulating the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, a dose of good news for once.
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Verschlagwortet mit Federal District Court, Financial Services, Institute for Legal Reform, Manhatten, New York Times, Nietzer&Häusler
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ILR: Judge Dismisses Antitrust Claims in Libor Suits
Wall Street Journal | 2013
Banks being probed over alleged interest-rate manipulation scored a big victory in their battle against scores of private lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in potential damages.
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Verschlagwortet mit Antitrust, Financial Services, ILR, Institute of Legal Reform, Judge, Libor Suits, Nietzer&Häusler, US-Gesellschaftsrecht, Wall Street Journal
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