Congrats to Mary Schapiro, SEC Chair Nominee

US President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Mary Schapiro as Chair of the Securities and Exchange ... Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Before that, Schapiro served for six years as a Commissioner ... Commission. We at GW Law School, from which Ms. Schaprio graduated in 1980, are delighted. We wish [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 17:16:36

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This Week In Securities Litigation (November 21, 2008)

In securities litigation this week, there were two significant circuit court cases ... . In private litigation, a derivative suit based on option backdating was dismissed for lack of standing ... , as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 04:56:16

What if it's all a Ponzi scheme -- more

Earlier, I grew depressed thinking that the reason all that bailout money wasn't helping right the economy was that the whole thing was a vast Ponzi ... this one is smaller.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil charges against a Pennsylvania man accused of running a $50 million Ponzi scheme [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:47:00

DC’s Cosa Nostra

Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ... Gensler to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Instability in the commodities markets ... financial advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Gensler has not yet shown to critics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:54:25

SIPC: Lehman To Be Liquidated

How did this little gem slip by unnoticed? Tomorrow at 4PM, Lehman is to be liquidated ... of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... in connection with a proposed sale of the business of the broker-dealer to Barclays Capital Inc. A hearing [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 05:00:00

Cheney lies, Obama is wrong, Paul gets it right

While Vice President Dick Cheney uses his final days to tell lies:During an interview Thursday with The Associated Press in his West Wing office, ... the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission into a super-regulator [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:53:00

Managing the Business Risk of Fraud...

Operational Risk Management is in full swing at distressed institutions as the TARP funds continue to flow to these needy corporations ... of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Gil Soffer, associate deputy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:04:00

Obama picks signal tighter market oversight

[ President-elect Barack Obama, right, announces more members to his economic team, left to right, Securities Exchange Commission chairman- designate, Mary Schapiro, Commodities Futures Trading Commission chairman-designate Gary Gensler and Federal Reserve Board of Governors- designate Daniel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 00:49:42

Networks Ignore Bush Speech on Domestic Policy

President George W. Bush delivered an address on domestic policy issues as the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), while President-elect Barack Obama named his picks for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Reserve Board and Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — all the major networks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:06:15

Obama takeover augurs financial regulator shakeup

By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress will take over the government this month with big ... and chiefs for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:44:40

Joseph S. Forte : Despicable, Greedy Bastard

Uhh huh. You knew it was only a matter of time given the greed factor in this area ... of this latest Ponzi scheme.The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:17:00

From Clueless Cox to Something Else Schapiro: Meet the Future SEC Chairman

Christopher Cox may in retrospect look like an Aristotelian fountain of wisdom, ... of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission. She is currently a director of Kraft Foods Inc. Her stint at the CFTC during the Clinton [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 02:47:58

Perspective- We Ain’t Got It.

Obama’s presser: I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and—well, let me start by talking about my own views ... of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, to serve as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He appointed former Treasury official Gary Gensler to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:26:05

Obama Appoints Mary Schapiro

Barack Obama has named Financial Industry Regulatory Authority chief executive Mary Schapiro as chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro is a former SEC commissioner who also headed the commodity futures trading commission and is now the head of Finra, which inspects U.S. brokerage firms, writes rules for those selling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:47:01

Should Mary Schapiro save the SEC or shut it down?

Mary Schapiro, reported to be the President-elect's choice to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... . She's been chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She's currently CEO of the Financial [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 04:05:40

Permalink | THURSDAY NEWS UPDATE. GOP CONGRESSMAN TO BE TRANSPORTATION SECY; BROWNBACK ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT (AGAIN) ... -- previously served as Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair during the Clinton Administration. Also ... . Obama will also name Mary Schapiro as new Securities & Exchange Commission Chairwoman [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 04:53:33

Obama Picks Schapiro for SEC

President-elect Obama has chosen Mary Schapiro to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street Journal reports ... . She served under the Clinton administration in 1994 as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as an SEC commissioner from 1988 to 1993." [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 00:17:57

If Mary Schapiro’s the answer. . .

...it was probably a stupid question  ... .  Schapiro took the NASD-R’s money after putting in 15 months as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; before that she was, from 1988-1993, a member of the US Securities and Exchange [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 05:27:02

Schapiro to be named SEC chairman: reports - Marketwatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The choice of Mary Schapiro to head the Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that President-elect Barack Obama is serious about combining the agency and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, observers said ... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:30:59

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