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The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) is the oldest subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (formerly the Committee on Government Operations).
Read More at Wikipedia ›LONDON -- HSBC Holdings PLC (HBC) confirmed Wednesday that it was under investigation by a U.
S. Senate panel in connection with money laundering.The U.K.-based global bank said the probe was one of a number of regulatory and compliance matters it was talking to U.S. regulators about as it had disclosed in a company filing Nov. 9 last year."We have ongoing discussions with officials (including the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations) on a number of issues," an HSBC spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires."The nature of these is confidential and in all cases we are co-operating," he said.The relevant part of the filing, which was disclosed in HSBC's interim management statement, is headed "Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy Act and Other Compliance Matters' and refers to investigations into the bank's bank-note business and dollar clearing services, its compliance with Office of Foreign Assets Control requirements, and adherence by certain customers to U.S. tax reporting req...The U.S. Government already has a steel truncheon to curb high oil and gasoline prices. It’s called Dodd-Frank.Petrochemical companies, banks, Wall Street and hedge ...
Shah Gilani of Money Morning discusses why he is advising clients to pull back on the market.
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FOX Business: The Power to ProsperThe blue chips shed steep losses and ended the day modestly in the green as optimism over corporate earnings outweighed a disappoin...
By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the most damning official U.S. report yet produced on Wall Street's role in the financial crisis, a Senate panel accused ...
By Rachelle Younglai and Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moody's Corp and Standard and Poor's triggered the worst financial crisis in decades when they were for...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Senate subcommittee is nearing completion of a long-awaited report on the role Wall Street banks played in creating complex securities that fu...
Set aside the embarrassing emails and the smoke bombs in the debate over the Securities & Exchange Commission's securities fraud case against Goldman Sachs (GS). The...
April 26, 2010 4:34 PM Goldman's Defense On Capitol Hill: Does It Hold Up?by Elizabeth MacDonaldSelect rating Poor Okay Good Great Awesome Average: 4.6 ( 5 votes)Com...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is not just attacking Goldman Sachs–it's attacking all of America and capitalism in the biggest government case to date levele...
April 22 , 2010 09 : 17 AM UTC by Elizabeth MacDonald Goldman's Embarrassing Emails The Securities and Exchange Commission is not just attacking Goldman Sachs – it ...
April 22, 2010 9:17 AM Goldman's Embarrassing Emailsby Elizabeth MacDonaldSelect rating Poor Okay Good Great Awesome Average: 4.8 ( 5 votes)Comments »The Securities ...
By Christopher DoeringWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. futures regulator delayed a final vote on controversial measures to crack down on excessive speculation in comm...
Goldman Sachs ’ shares nosedived nearly 5% after it confirmed that its chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein , has hired Reid Weingarten, a high-profile Washington, D.C.,...
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired Reid Weingarten, a high-profile Washington defense attorney whose past clients include a former Enr...
By Andrea Shalal-EsaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired Reid Weingarten, a high-profile Washington defense attorney whose ...
By Matthew GoldsteinNEW YORK (Reuters) - In the fall of 2009, Deutsche Bank quietly fired one of its top derivative traders in London after a colleague in New York c...
By Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Credit-rating agencies will have to disclose more details about their ratings process and better manage conflicts of interest...
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on the bipartisan investigation into Goldman Sachs and the subprime mortgage mess.
