FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-28: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 2)

The second podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-07-19: FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning Template

This podcast describes FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Template and details recent updates, including those that were made to reflect FINRA\’s BCP Rule.Read full story

SEC: Ex-Countrywide chief approved special loans

Angelo Mozilo, founder and former CEO, Countrywide Financial Corporation, stands at the witness table before the start of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill March 7, 2008 in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON a \’ The government says former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo personally approved mortgages for favored borrowers that …Read full story

Securities and Exchange Commission charges 2 investors with insider trading on BHP-Potash deal

Federal regulators say two Spanish investors made illegal profits of $1.1 million by trading on secret information about BHP Billiton PLC\’s bid to acquire Potash Corp.Read full story

SEC says ex-Countrywide chief Mozilo approved special…

Federal regulators say former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo personally approved mortgages for favored borrowers that violated the company\’s policies and lending standards.Read full story

SEC making access to ballot easier

Federal regulators are moving to make it easier for shareholders to nominate directors of public companies, a major change long sought by investor advocates and buttressed by the new financial overhaul law.Read full story

Sec Stalker: Aol Is Hiding Information From You About Its Google Deal Until December 19

Topix SEC NewsAOL just got the official SEC thumbs up to withhold information about its search deal with Google.Read full story

August 23, 2010, issue

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FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-28: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 2)

The second podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-07-19: FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning Template

This podcast describes FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Template and details recent updates, including those that were made to reflect FINRA\’s BCP Rule.Read full story

FINRA 2010-08-23: BrokerCheck

Amendments to FINRA rules related to BrokerCheck, an online investor tool for researching the professional backgrounds of firms and brokers.Read full story

Proposed rule won\’t make commodities funds any safer | Your Funds

Topix SEC NewsJon in Tacoma has been thinking that commodity funds might diversify his portfolio in these tough economic times, putting him into hard assets or real assets that are not a part of the standard mutual fund.Read full story

Dallas\’ Wyly brothers break silence, deny charges in SEC fraud allegations

Topix SEC NewsThe billionaire Wyly brothers of Dallas have broken their silence about the massive securities fraud suit against them, and they\’re taking a defiant tone.Read full story

Executive Pay List Reflects Revised Rules

Michael T. Duke, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., was the highest-paid public company executive in Arkansas in the most recent fiscal year.Read full story

BlueLinx largest shareholder to attempt takeover

Topix SEC NewsCerberus ABP Investors, an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, has announced in a July 22 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it intends to make a tender offer for all of the outstanding publicly held shares of BlueLinx Holdings Inc.Read full story

Metiscan, Inc. Announces Filing Registration Statement on Form S-1 With SEC

Topix SEC NewsBryan A. Scott, President and CEO of Metiscan, Inc., commented, \”Our SEC Counsel has advised us that our Registration Statement on Form S-1 was filed with the SEC and that the review and comment period has begun.Read full story

August 17, 2010, issue

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August 19, 2010, issue

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FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-28: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 2)

The second podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-07-19: FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning Template

This podcast describes FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Template and details recent updates, including those that were made to reflect FINRA\’s BCP Rule.Read full story

FINRA 2010-08-16: 2010 Regulatory and Business Considerations - Part II

FINRA guidance on consolidated account reports,including applicable rules and other considerations.Read full story

J&J discloses more subpoenas over recalls

Topix SEC NewsJohnson & Johnson disclosed Wednesday that the health products giant has now received multiple subpoenas from federal prosecutors related to repeated recalls of Tylenol and other consumer health products.Read full story

UK drug firms put under microscope over \’bribery\’ - The Independent

Topix SEC NewsThe world\’s largest pharmaceutical companies are facing a corruption investigation in the United States over claims that the hospitality lavished on those who prescribe their treatments could constitute bribery.Read full story

Build-A-Bear Workshop targeted by activist shareholder

New York hedge fund manager Eric Rosenfeld has been classed among the nation\’s \”wolf pack\” of activist shareholders.Read full story

Plaintiff Lawyers Join The Bribery Racket

The Justice Department\’s unprecedented campaign to enforce a once-backwater statute called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, has made corporate lawyers and accountants rich as big companies pay big law and accounting firms to investigate and defend potential violations.Read full story

Ten Ways Tesla Could Lose Its Juice [Inside 8 Mile]

Tesla Motors \”founder\” Elon Musk has a propensity for boasting about his electric car business, but the company\’s latest SEC filing shares the risks he doesn\’t like to talk about, including having the Roadster\’s advertised range cut 30%. Musk, now the CEO of a publicly traded company, has turned doubt about Tesla \’s viability into […]

August 16, 2010, issue

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FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-28: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 2)

The second podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-07-19: FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning Template

This podcast describes FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Template and details recent updates, including those that were made to reflect FINRA\’s BCP Rule.Read full story

Peppel, former MCSi chief, pleads guilty

MCSi\’s former chief executive officer pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Cincinnati to conspiracy, securities fraud and money laundering for improperly reporting company revenues as part of a scheme to inflate the companya s stock price, according to a report in the Dayton Business Journal.Read full story

FundWatch: SEC plans fall short of full fee disclosure

Topix SEC NewsFund industry observers are lobbing new criticism at regulators\’ recent efforts to limit mutual-fund sales fees, already under fire for being too weak.Read full story

American Apparel will miss filing deadline

Topix SEC NewsNew York City American Apparel has informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will miss its filing deadline.Read full story

CVB Cfo postpones retirement to help on Sec probe

Topix SEC NewsCVB Financial Corp. Chief Financial Officer Edward Biebrich postponed his retirement to help the California bank deal with a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.Read full story

Could the SEC Benefit from Crowdsourcing?

Topix SEC NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission has had a rough decade. The scandals that ensnared companies including Enron, MCI, and Adelphia-which led to the demise of the accounting Arthur Andersen - resulted in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.Read full story

August 12, 2010, issue

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August 13, 2010, issue

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FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-28: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 2)

The second podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-07-19: FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning Template

This podcast describes FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Template and details recent updates, including those that were made to reflect FINRA\’s BCP Rule.Read full story

FINRA 2010-08-09: 2010 Regulatory and Business Considerations - Part II

The second podcast in a two-part series on regulatory and business considerations, as highlighted in FINRA\’s 2010 annual letter to firms.Read full story

CVB Financial says it\’s buying back stock

Topix SEC NewsCVB Financial Corp. shares rose Wednesday after the California lender said it\’s buying back its shares in the wake of a 22% slump Tuesday.Read full story

Daw: Industry defends mutual fund trailer fees

Financial advisers are watching nervously and defending their value to Canadians as three other nations prepare to outlaw or curb what is, for most, their primary source of income.Read full story

Schapiro: SEC Considering \”Other Steps\” to Prevent Disruptions

The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking at such mechanisms as price collars and limits on upward or downward movements in a stock in a single day, in the wake of the May 6thr \”flash crash.\” \”We are considering … whether other steps are appropriate to reduce the risk of sudden disruptions and clearly erroneous […]

Harley-Davidson: Take my MV Agusta — please

Topix SEC NewsLocally operating Harley-Davidson said it received a \”nominal consideration\” of 3 euros, or about $3.98, for its former Italian motorcycle subsidiary MV Agusta, which has been sold to its former owners.Read full story

DeMarrais: New Web site helps investors

Topix SEC NewsInvestors have easy access to critical information about individuals who work for money management, financial planning and other investment advisory firms through an enhanced Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website launched on Wednesday.Read full story

August 9, 2010, issue

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August 10, 2010, issue

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August 11, 2010, issue

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FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-28: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 2)

The second podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story

FINRA 2010-07-19: FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning Template

This podcast describes FINRA\’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Template and details recent updates, including those that were made to reflect FINRA\’s BCP Rule.Read full story

Two US tobacco companies settle bribery charges with SEC, Justice Department

Topix SEC NewsTwo American tobacco companies are paying nearly $30 million to settle charges that they bribed foreign officials to get lucrative overseas tobacco sales contracts.Read full story

NuPathe goes public

Topix SEC NewsNuPathe Inc. became the second local life sciences company to go public this year when its stock began selling Friday at $10 per share.Read full story

Demand Media files for IPO

Topix SEC NewsDemand Media , the publishing company that achieved both impressive revenues and industry notoriety for its business model of fast, cheap content, is planning to go public.Read full story

A pay issue is dividing SEC

Topix SEC NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission is divided over when to seize pay from executives who unwittingly benefit from accounting fraud, a rift that has triggered internal disagreements over cases, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.Read full story

August 5, 2010, issue

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FINRA 2010-02-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part I

FINRA staff provide background on variable life settlements and transactions in related investment products, and discuss some requirements and potential risks. This podcast produced by FINRA Industry Education. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-15: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 Fixed Income Conference Keynote Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses developments in the debt markets and highlights FINRA\’s regulatory priorities. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-03-22: Variable Life Settlements and Transactions in Related Investment Products - Your Firm\’s Obligations - Part II

Part II of this series focuses on issues related to communications with the public, fees and commissions, and other transaction types. Learn more at http://www.finra.org/education.Read full story

FINRA 2010-04-26: FINRA\’s 2010 Educational Offerings

FINRA staff discuss compliance education and training options that FINRA makes available to the industry.Read full story

FINRA 2010-05-27: Rick Ketchum\’s 2010 FINRA Annual Conference Welcome Address

FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum discusses how FINRA is responding to current issues facing both the industry and investors.Read full story

FINRA 2010-06-14: FINRA\’s 2010 Examination Priorities (Part 1)

The first podcast in a two-part series on FINRA\’s 2010 examination priorities, as addressed in FINRA\’s annual letter to firms.Read full story