Madoff lesson: More investor protections needed

By Julie Vorman

Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme holds many painful lessons for regulators and investors. Among them: It’s time for the Securitie

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"… using a company affiliate as custodian for clients’ money instead of a bank or independent company.Some lawmakers from New York, where a court-appoint …"

More transparency needed at export-import bank

By Julie Vorman

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, which helps finance the exports of American goods and services, should be faster and more transparent when revi

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"… otential economic impact, the agency’s watchdog said in a new report.The bank provides direct loans, loan guarantees, and credit insurance to U.S. compa …"

"… d credit insurance to U.S. companies unable to obtain funding from private banks. Economic impact reviews — a lengthy process to determine if a loan wou …"

"… review the economic impact of a proposed loan, the watchdog said. And the bank’s final report should be made publicly available after redacting sensiti …"

"… ft accounted for $4.5 billion — or 62 percent — of $7.2 billion in the bank’s long-term guarantees, it said.Other new watchdog reports released by t …"

Fed chief says he will take press questions each quarter

By Julie Vorman

Fed chief Ben Bernanke last month publicly faced one of his fiercest critics, Republican Rep. Ron Paul, who accused the central bank of a va

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"… of his fiercest critics, Republican Rep. Ron Paul, who accused the central bank of a variety of misdeeds -- including some linked to Saddam Hussein’s pu …"

"… nsuring accountability and increasing public understanding,” the central bank said in a statement.For Fed-watchers, the secretive central bank’s plan …"

"… e central bank said in a statement.For Fed-watchers, the secretive central bank’s plan for quarterly news briefings is a step toward greater transparenc …"

"… w board governors discuss issues such as its controversial proposal to cut banks’ debit transaction fees, as required by the Dodd-Frank reform law. And …"

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Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part four

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — Throughout his political career, Bill Bradley has defined himself by what he is not. ...

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"… rn worked as managing director of resource mobilization and finance at the bank for two decades. She currently is a visiting fellow at the International M …"

"… llen: Fund-raiser. Allen is best described as a media mogul, an investment banker, and an old friend of Bradley. Allen chaired a spring 1999 Madison Squar …"

"… at fund-raisers had anticipated. He founded Allen & Co., an investment-banking business serving the entertainment industry, in 1982, and began hosting …"

General as bandit

By Sunday Dare

LAGOS, Nigeria, August 24, 1998 — Until General Sani Abacha's death 8 June 1998, Lt.-Gen. Jeremiah Timbut Useni was the second most senior o

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"… the three houses he has there.In Lion bank alone, (the Plateau State-owned bank), Useni is said to have bought N100 million shares in his own name and ano …"

"… acha, a promise by Useni to fix things at Aso Rock was worth taking to the bank. This was at the very height of his power.The human traffic at the vast Ar …"

An invitation to launder money

By Georg Mascolo

HAMBURG, Germany, November 8, 1999 — Whoever wishes to hide funds from the grips of tax authorities will find willing assistants in the Prin

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"… already tattered reputation of the mini-state. Hidden between Austria and Switzerland, the principality exists on just 160 square kilometers with approximately …"

"… for this tax oasis, and that seems immune to all attempts to break it.Even Switzerland, which has long engaged in a symbiotic relationship with Liechtenstein — …"

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Ginnie Mae's troubling endorsements

By Brian Grow and Zachary Goldfarb

The trouble signs surrounding Lend America had been building for years. A top executive was convicted of mortgage fraud but still helped run

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"… ent of new mortgages. Then the housing market melted down, and many of the banks and other lenders that had made risky but highly popular loans got out of …"

"… to $826 billion While many of these loans were made by the nation’s big banks, dozens of smaller lenders rushed to obtain the government’s endorsemen …"

"… ngs and reports issued by HUD and its inspector general, federal and state banking regulators and federal court records, as well as statistics in governme …"

"… sed by Ginnie Mae have been cited by various federal regulators for unsafe banking practices, insufficient capital or other violations. Thirteen firms hav …"

FBI tracked alleged Russian mob ties of Giuliani campaign supporter

By Knut Royce

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — The Center for Public Integrity is investigating how billions of dollars of allegedly corrupted money from t

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"… oys, also is reputed to be the head of one of Russia’s top mob families, Moscow’s Izmaylovo gang.A 1996 Interpol report based on several ongoing investi …"

"… hail Chernoy?” Tarpishev, President Boris Yeltzin’s tennis coach, told Moscow Izvestiya last year. But the Chernoys themselves seem to have had no troub …"

Fixing the fixers

By Murali Krishnan

NEW DELHI, India, November 13, 2000 — This article was originally published in the Nov. 13, 2000 edition of Outlook India. It is reproduced

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"… Rs 10 lakh from Ajay and Ameesh Gupta, both Delhi punters, for fixing the Pepsi Cup match in Jaipur between India and Pakistan in 1999. However, cbi offic …"

"… in the 1996 Titan Cup series against South Africa and another match in the Pepsi Asia Cup in Sri Lanka in 1997, may just be the tip of the iceberg.For inst …"

Right on the money: The George W. Bush profile

By Charles Lewis

On January 30, 1990, Platt's Oilgram News, a respected trade journal of the petroleum industry, reported that a subsidiary of a small, Dalla

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"… of the independent oil companies were hard hit. The less savvy were going bankrupt. By 1984 the only way Bush could save his business was to find yet ano …"

"… together his $500,000 stake in the Rangers, Bush borrowed the money from a bank in Midland where he once was a director. He owned 1.8 percent of the Range …"

"… orporation, the holding company of International bank of Commerce, a Texas banking chain founded by his father in 1966. Over Bush’s career, Sanchez, mem …"

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