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Mexican businessman found guilty in mixed verdict in US bribery trial
Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez was convicted in the US of paying bribes to officials of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in exchange for cont... (more story)
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UK pensions bill advances in lawmakers' scrutiny with investment mandate intact
A draft UK law to reform Britain’s pensions industry — including a reserve power for the government to require funds to allocate a minimum share of investment to UK... (more story)
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Mexican businessman paid bribes to fix problems with Pemex, US says at trial
A Mexican businessman paid bribes to resolve his problems with Mexico’s state-owned oil company and continue receiving its business, prosecutors said at the start o... (more story)
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Key parts of the planned EU revamp of foreign-investment screening face rejection by EU governments, which are pushing back against extending scrutiny to sectors such as financial services and critical medicin... (more story)
The Federal Reserve Board is requesting public input on the impact of potential strategic changes to check services it provides — such as check collection and processing services at a fee to banks — as well as... (more story)
A draft UK law to reform Britain’s pensions industry — including a reserve power for the government to require funds to allocate a minimum share of investment to UK assets — has progressed in its review with t... (more story)
A common understanding on a revamped EU securitization framework was reached on Thursday by EU national experts, MLex has learned. The provisional agreement addresses the transparency and due-diligence compone... (more story)
The UK's growing private markets ecosystem is to come under central bank scrutiny, with the Bank of England set to test how it would fare in a severe global crisis and any potential impact on UK financial stab... (more story)
Mark Uyeda, a Republican US Securities and Exchange Commission member, called for consideration of requiring companies to file their financial reports only twice a year rather than quarterly. Semi-annual repor... (more story)
The UK’s financial watchdog has warned that the European Union moved too early with its flagship artificial intelligence regulation, arguing that fast-evolving technology makes premature rules risky and prone ... (more story)
Ediphy, a UK fintech company that sued the Financial Conduct Authority over its bond consolidated tape award, has agreed to the lifting of the suspension order that was automatically triggered by the ongoing l... (more story)
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Scaling up EU market infrastructures and the asset-management sector is seen by the bloc's executive arm as essential for achieving more competitive capital markets. To support this vision, the European Commis... (more story)
Major UK lenders this week saw capital requirements eased for the first time in the post-crisis era, with a cut in the amount that they must hold in reserve intended to meet the government's expectation of the... (more story)
Investment funds engaging in for-profit support of court cases aren't likely to see any EU-wide regulatory action in the short term. The European Commission appears to see no reason to intervene, and for now i... (more story)
EU finance ministers are set to ask the bloc's executive next week to “put forward ambitious simplification packages” as part of the EU financial services framework, according to a draft obtained by MLex. The ... (more story)
South Korea’s decades-old rule separating financial and industrial capital is under renewed scrutiny as companies warn it blocks the scale of investment needed for AI and semiconductors. Antitrust chief Ju Biu... (more story)
A recent rap on the knuckles for EU countries over enforcing market rules is yet another signal of the European Commission's determination to defend better integrated capital markets. While the EU's executive ... (more story)
New rules requiring greater disclosure of bond trades take effect in the UK on Dec. 1. But a legal dispute over the rights to operate the country's first consolidated feed of bond trading data threatens to und... (more story)
UK ambitions to remove juries from trials of all but the most serious cases have met sharp criticism from lawyers, but calls for judge-only trials are nothing new, and for complex fraud cases there has long be... (more story)