Tuesday, December 30, 2008
FINRA Fixed Income Conference
March 5, 2009
New York, NY
FINRA’s annual Fixed Income Conference focuses on current market impacts on fixed income and how regulators and firms are responding to them. Sessions cover recent transparency initiatives, other regulatory initiatives, compliance practices in today’s market environment, considerations for operational and risk management, and recent examination findings. The conference concludes [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
“The Scapegoat”, William Holman Hunt
The following is from the blog of Robert Bruner, the Dean of the Darden School of Business… nice to see academics suggest that schools can raise the standards bar for business people… everyone needs to help raise the bar on fraud and greed… too prevalent ….
~~~~ ” … Every financial disaster deserves [...]
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Imagine that you are sitting in your office at the Bank of Japan building in Nihonbashi, Tokyo … you’re clicking through the news stories on your Bloomberg terminal and you come across the following about American consumers:
~~~~ ” ….Retailers, which started offering discounts of 50 percent or more weeks ago, had been counting on post - Christmas sales to help [...]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Excellent post about the recent SEC approval of XBRL at the Hitachi XBRL Business Unit blog…
Written by Bob Schneider Posted on December 24, 2008
“I think this decision today is much bigger than most people realise” wrote John Turner on CoreFiling’s Insight blog. Many reveled with Gary Purnhagen (“We will all be better for it”), while [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Excellent progress today on CDS… in a roundabout way the SEC has exempted the DTCC owned LCH.Clearnet to clear credit default swaps in a central counterparty platform… a central place for trades to come together… it’s a very important beginning for this wholly unregulated product class…
~~~~ ” …. Today’s announcement is an important step in [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wikipedia is one of my favorite developments of the internet age… please consider learning more about them in the holidays… a very worthy organization…
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An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
Dear Reader,
Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world’s [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
Since 1934, the SEC has required disclosure in forms and documents.
In 1984, EDGAR began collecting electronic documents to help investors get information.
The SEC’s new system, IDEA, requires data disclosure - the next step to improve how investors find and use information.
You can search information collected by the SEC several ways:
Interactive Data - coming soon for [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
The Real National Debt
Per most recent available data.
Total Federal Burden
$56,400,000,000,000
Your Share
$184,000
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From the Peter Peterson Foundation
Friday, December 19, 2008
From FT.com
Fox News does a Bloomberg
Posted by Tracy Alloway on Dec 19 10:04.
Well, we at FT Alphaville never thought we’d see a conservative news organisation going after a Republican-controlled institution, but here it is.
Fox Business Network is pulling a Bloomberg and sueing the US Treasury for info on its use of bailout funds — specifically [...]