A massive data collection system that Wall Street's industry-funded watchdog is pushing in order to ramp up oversight would cost clearing firms $680 million to build, plus other costs to the industry that far exceed the regulator's initial estimates, a major trade group said on Monday.
U.S. regulators warned investors of stock scams tied to West Africa's Ebola outbreak and suspended trading in four small companies that they said have made unverifiable claims about products to prevent or treat the deadly virus.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will ask a federal judge to more than double the money Texas businessman Sam Wyly must pay from $200 million to $455 million for his involvement in an offshore fraud scheme, a lawyer for Wyly said on Friday.
U.S. securities regulators adopted a rule on Wednesday designed to avert another financial crisis, but two officials dissented, saying it did not do enough to discourage banks from lending to borrowers with shaky credit and then passing the mortgage risk to investors.
San Francisco, US-based venture capital fund network IDG Ventures is currently raising $100 million for its third fund, the IDG Ventures III, to invest in early-stage startups in the US.
California, US-based API management platform Apigee raised $20.5 million in a stock transaction as part of the acquisition of predictive analytics firm InsightsOne, according to a SEC disclosure.
BlackRock Inc will have to say on Monday what stake it holds in Italy's biggest telecom operator Telecom Italia, after the Italian market watchdog threatened to fine it for not disclosing an increase.
The U.S. Justice Department is probing Morgan Stanley for its hiring practices in China. The move comes as U.S. authorities expand their investigation into whether banks' hiring of politically connected Chinese employees may have breached U.S. bribery laws.
Connecticut-based Cara Therapeutics Inc. announced its recent filing with the SEC about the proposed initial public offering of the biotechnology company's common stock.
FINRA, in its oversight powers, is contemplating the imposition of a requirement of having insurance to cover payouts should the brokerage firm fail.
SEC Lawyer Jan Folena said Mark Cuban cheated when he sold his shares in an Internet firm nine years ago.
Harbinger Group, Philip Falcone's investment firm, jumped in value as it sold off shares to a consortium headed by Leucadia National Corp.
Two Republican lawmakers questioned the time and resources spent by Securities and Exchange Commission in monitoring private equity funds.
RingCentral submitted an application for an IPO with the US SEC.
Sequoia Capital raises US$1.1 billion of funds from five new ventures in Israel, China and the United States.
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