Chinese lawmakers on Wednesday called on market regulators to step up supervision and stipulate heavier penalties for violators once a stock listing reform takes effect. Legislators are set to approve a State Council proposal on the ...
Tags: IPO Reform, Supervision
Chinese shares dived on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down more than 3 percent at the end of trading, driven by an exodus of capital from the stock market. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dived 3.47 percent, ...
Tags: ChiNext Index, Chinese shares
China's market regulator said Monday the government will strictly regulate online commerce, amid a heated public debate on China's largest online shopping platform Taobao.com which was found to match-make transactions of a great number of ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, market
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is expecting a drop of its net industrial debt by €715m if the Ferrari unit is spun off by the company. Reuters cited FCA's previous filing with the US market regulator SEC stating that it would ...
Tags: industrial debt, Ferrari, Auto
Future Retail has filed a draft letter of offer with SEBI – the market regulator to raise up to Rs 1,600 crores via a rights issue. As per the document, Kishore Biyani promoted Future Retail would issue certain classes of shares to ...
Tags: Retail Files, Rs 1600, Apparel
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has quantified just how bad business is at the moment, as users abandon its once-dominant platform. The company said it plans to record a GAAP net operating loss during the July to September quarter ...
Tags: Blackberry, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that some life insurance companies still had arrangements, which could influence advisers, violating and working against Retail Distribution Review's (RDR) aim of removing commission bias ...
Systems management software vendor BMC Software has announced job cuts following the conclusion of a review into its operations. The restructuring will result in a pre-tax charge estimated at between $33m and $38m (£21m and ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has imposed a fine of 30m against companies of the Prudential Group (Prudential) for failing to inform the market regulator at the time of its proposed acquisition of AIA, the Asian subsidiary of ...
Tags: Financial Services, FSA, Financial
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has proposed a range of rules to contain the growth of "off-market" and high-frequency trading (HFT), saying that it had uncovered some breaches of current law but no widespread or ...
Tags: ASIC, off-market, economy
The market regulator is considering action against five high-frequency traders and one dark-pool operator as its taskforce continues to consider new rules for those practices. Staff from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ...
Tags: Taskforce Targets, market regulator, ASIC
By the close on Friday Molycorp (NYSE: MCP) was changing hands for $8.62, up $1.39 or 19.2%, after filings showed that insiders at the company has been stocking up on the counter. A number of executives made the most of the opportunity to ...
Tags: Molycorp explodes, rare earth producer, rare earth, Mountain Pass mine
The US Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)has charged Germany based insurance and asset management company Allianz for breaching the books and records and internal controls rules of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act(FCPA). According ...
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US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Michael Van Gilder, the CEO of Van Gilder Insurance Company over his alleged role in insider trading during the stake acquisition of Delta Petroleum by Tracinda. The market watch dog ...
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