Finance Law

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As Illinois marches into the new year, at least 214 new laws will go into effect, thanks to a busy state legislature. While many of these lack the headline-grabbing appeal of provisions like the civil unions law, casino expansion, the death penalty or the CME Group-Sears tax break package, there are some important nuggets of [...]

MSNBC.COM – About 40,000 state laws taking effect at the start of the new year will change rules about getting abortions in New Hampshire, learning about gays and lesbians in California, getting jobs in Alabama and even driving golf carts in Georgia. Several federal rules change with the new year, too, including a Social Security [...]

By Conrad Tan Bank lending rose modestly in November as loans to businesses resumed growth after shrinking in October. But lending growth in the coming months is likely to be muted, analysts say, given the highly uncertain outlook for the world economy. Total Singapore-dollar bank loans rose 2.3 per cent over the month to $415.8 [...]

OTTAWA — Profitable Canadian businesses are set to reap $2.85 billion in additional income tax savings in 2012, even as Prime Minister Stephen Harper complains about all the private “money sitting on the sidelines.” The last of five annual corporate tax cuts took effect Sunday, reducing the federal rate by another 1.5 points to 15 [...]

Christine Zuni Cruz In 2010, UNM joined the Newberry Library Consortium in American Indian Studies. Since then, Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history, and Jennifer Nez Denetdale, associate professor of American studies, have been collaborating with other UNM faculty members to build UNM participation in the larger consortium community. In joining, UNM has made a [...]

(CNN) — New laws going into effect Sunday cover some of the nation’s most contentious issues, from immigration to abortion, while others deal with tanning beds, tuition and where you can sell a pet. In all, nearly 40,000 laws were enacted in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Some take effect New [...]

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — IBM and Enterprise Bank Inc., a community-based rural bank that provides a variety of financial services in Mindanao, have announced that the bank has achieved better overall business performance, including enhanced communication and collaboration within the company’s network, and increased data security with the help of IBM solutions. Enterprise Bank EBI [...]

While the Occupy Wall Street movement targets inequality, and especially the financial industry’s role in it, the protests were originally inspired by the Twitter feed of the Canadian magazine and foundation with a circulation of 120,000, Adbusters, better known for its critique of consumerism and corporate branding than of credit default swaps. (Perhaps this was [...]

Michael A. Goldstein , a professor of finance at Babson College in Wellesley, has been named chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). At Babson, Goldstein holds the Donald P. Babson Chair in Applied Investments and is faculty director of the Stephen Cutler Center of Investment and Finance. He is also an honorary professor [...]