Legal & Regulatory

Everbright's proprietary head gets suspended after trading errors

After Everbright Securities Co. made erroneous buy orders of CNY23.4 billion last August 16, the state-backed firm suspended the head of its proprietary trading division.


Vodacom to invest TZS 200 billion for network expansion in Tanzania

Vodacom Tanzania announced plans for network expansion with TZS 200 billion investment. South Africa's Vodacom in Tanzania announced its plans to develop and grow in the country within the year.

China’s regulators seek confessions from foreign companies for antitrust violations

China's antitrust regulators placed pressure to thirty foreign firms as they seek confessions for antritrust violations on a closed-door meeting held last July 24 and 25.

PBOC says trust loans to be included in its database

China's central bank said it would include all loans issued by trust companies in its database in an effort to curb risky lending.


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JPMorgan Chase had identified possible candidates for new directors of the bank's board . JPMorgan Chase & Co is near to identifying the company's two newest directors, according to Reuters' source.
IVG Immobilien sought protection from its creditors in court in Bonn after failing to reach an agreement to refinance its debt.
UK regulator warns Cineworld might have to let go of three complexes. Cineworld might just have to let go of their recently acquired complexes at Aberdeen, Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge as the Competition Commission released their provisional findings last Tuesday.
Vietnam announced plan to ban free chat applications to protect network providers in the country. The Vietnam government proposed a possible prohibition of free Internet chat applications.
Everbright Securities Co. faced a three month restriction on joining any property trading after it erroneously priced government bonds worth CNY10 million.
Bayer Healthcare said it received approval to market its cancer treatment Stivarga in Japan. Bayer Healthcare announced it had received regulatory approval to market its cancer drug Stivarga in Japan.
Billionaire Philip Falcone agreed to a five year ban in the securities industry and admits wrongdoing in the allegations filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The US Federal Reserve conducted a study and saw 18 of the largest banks in the country to be weak in one capital area.
Vietnam's Finance Ministry submitted a proposal to relax foreign ownership restrictions by allowing foreigners to increase voting shares in non-conditional industries.
On Monday, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York announced that investors may revive a lawsuit against Barclays PLC.