Yahoo, Microsoft Partnership Delayed Until 2010

Topix SEC NewsYahoo and Microsoft have postponed the deadline of the partnership of their Internet search engine and advertising deal, Yahoo announced on Wednesday.Read full story

Court-appointed receiver hopes to return more than $1.5B to fleeced Stanford investors

The lawyer tracking down money lost in what authorities say was a massive Ponzi scheme run by R. Allen Stanford says he hopes to gain control of more than $1.5 billion that would be then returned to fleeced investors.Read full story

Photos: 80 years since ‘Black Tuesday’

October 29, 1929: “Black Tuesday” - prices fall sharply and the stock market “crashes.” This “crash” produces a record volume of nearly 16 million shares.Read full story

InfoGroup holds annual meeting in Papillion, Neb.

Database provider InfoGroup Inc. plans to welcome shareholders to one of its suburban Omaha offices in Papillion for its annual meeting.Read full story

Apple to “Vigorously Defend” Itself Against Nokia’s Allegations

Topix SEC NewsThe company stressed that it would respond to the world’s largest maker of mobile phones later.Read full story

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Madoff associate had heart attack, drowned in pool

Topix SEC NewsA man accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff drowned after having a heart attack, authorities said Monday.Read full story

MPS Group to Report Third Quarter Earnings

MPS Group, Inc. today announced that it plans to issue its earnings release for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009, before the opening of market trading on Thursday, October 29, 2009.Read full story

Goldman Sachs Says “Dark Pools” Help Investors

Anonymous trading venues known as “dark pools” are a technological evolution that have benefitted both institutional and retail trading by bringing down transaction costs, Goldman Sachs Group Inc said in a memo to the Securities and Exchange Commission.Read full story

SEC to heighten scrutiny of trading systems

Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro brought her reform talk to Wall Street on Tuesday, telling an industry group her agency is looking at the practices of some exchanges that allow select firms access to enhanced trading speed and reiterating administration support for hedge fund registration.Read full story

October 26, 2009, issue

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FINRA 2009-10-12: FINRA Rulebook Consolidation

FINRA staff discuss new rules that the SEC recently approved for inclusion in the consolidated FINRA Rulebook. Hosts: Bri Joiner and Stan Macel. Producer: Kenneth Edward Piner.Read full story

FINRA 2009-10-19: Quarterly Disciplinary Review – October 2009 Issue

FINRA staff discuss examples of registered representatives’ misconduct, as featured in the October issue of FINRA’s Quarterly Disciplinary Review. Hosts: Mike Rote and Jante Santos; Producer: Kenneth Edward Piner.Read full story

FINRA 2009-10-26: Investment Banking Representative

This podcast introduces a new registration category that describes people who supervise or perform investment banking activities. Hosts: Joe McDonald and Phil Shaikun; Producers: Jeffrey Lamoreaux and Kenneth Edward Piner.Read full story

Need for credit rating reform

Topix SEC NewsA Therea s plenty of blame to go around for the crisis that brought the nationa s financial system to the verge of collapse a year ago.Read full story

SEC Charges New York Broker for Manipulating Stock Prices Through…

Topix SEC NewsThe SEC, which is bringing its enforcement action just three weeks after the scheme began, is seeking an emergency court order to enjoin the broker from further fraudulent activity.Read full story

Terra Capital, Inc. Announces Pricing of $600 Million of Senior Notes

Topix SEC NewsTerra Capital, Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Terra Industries Inc. , today announced the pricing of its private offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2019 .Read full story

Columbia Laboratories Announces Registered Direct Common Stock Offering

Topix SEC NewsColumbia Laboratories, Inc. today announced that it has priced a transaction to raise up to approximately $11,772,000 through the sale of up to approximately 10,900,000 shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase 5,450,000 shares of its common stock in a registered direct offering.Read full story

NYSE teams with dark pools to boost transparency

NYSE Euronext /quotes/comstock/13*!nyx /quotes/nls/nyx has teamed with five operators of alternative-trading systems for a new venture that will pull back the curtain on trading activity in so-called dark pools.Read full story

October 13, 2009, issue

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ALTO Group Holdings, Inc. Appoints Experienced Financial Executive as Director

ALTO Group Holdings, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Dale Paisley to the Board of Directors.Read full story

Judge drops most charges in SEC’s Cabletron suit

Topix SEC NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission still has a securities fraud civil case against six former executives of Cabletron Systems and its spinoffs, it’s just not much of one.Read full story

SEC Wants Authority to Gather Real-time Data on Swaps

Topix SEC NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission told Congress today to grant regulators ‘direct access to real-time data’ on credit default swaps and other derivatives.Read full story

Former Teen Stock Swindler Pleads to New Hacking Charges

Topix SEC NewsA former teenage hacker who once served prison time for an online stock-trading scheme pleaded guilty last week to new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh leaves a federal courthouse in Philadelphia in 2003, when, as a 19-year-old Drexel University student, […]

All Aboard! Accused Fraudster Allen Stanford Rides the D&O Train, Courtesy of Lloyd’s

Topix SEC NewsBy Ed Leefeldt Oct 10, 2009 It’s never a good sign for the prosecution when the judge starts weeping for the defendant.Read full story

October 8, 2009, issue

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SEC OKs Rules for Canceling Erroneous Stock Trades

Federal regulators have approved new rules for stock exchanges for nullifying erroneous trades deemed wildly out of sync with current prices.Read full story

Symetra Financial files registration for IPO

BELLEVUE, Wash. Symetra Financial Corp. on Monday said it filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of common stock.Read full story

SEC investigates London records of HCA

WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a probe into whether Hospital Corporation of America violated securities law by manipulating its books and records, according to documents and people familiar with the investigation.Read full story

Sec to appeal ruling dismissing Mark Cuban insider trading case 11:45 Am CT

Topix SEC NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday said it would appeal the dismissal of its original case against Dallas financier Mark Cuban.Read full story

Mich. Money Manager Charged With Fraud

Topix SEC NewsEdward P. May was indicted on 59 counts of mail fraud nearly two years after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit to shut down his financial-management company in Lake Orion.Read full story

October 5, 2009, issue

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October 7, 2009, issue

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FINRA 2009-10-05: FINRA September 2009 Monthly Recap

Revisit the latest Notices, compliance resources and news from September 2009. Hosts: Kenneth Edward Piner and Kristy Salsbury. Producer: Kenneth Edward Piner.Read full story

October 2, 2009, issue

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FINRA 2009-09-21: Continuing Membership Applications - Part 3

The final podcast in the three-part series on continuing membership applications describes what occurs after a firm submits one to FINRA. Hosts: Lorraine Lee and Ann-Marie Mason; Producers: Jeffrey Lamoreaux and Kenneth Edward Piner.Read full story

September 28, 2009, issue

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