Finance Law

DETROIT -Ford Motor Co. is getting its blue oval logo back. Moody’s Investors Service raised Ford’s debt ratings to investment-grade Tuesday for the first time in seven years. The upgrade means that all of Ford’s U.S. assets, including factories, the blue oval and the trademarks for the F-150 pickup and Mustang sports car, are back [...]

Marwa Al-Sairafi KUWAIT: The post of General Prosecutor in Kuwait is still limited to male law school graduates. Yet, this fact will soon change after female Kuwait graduates of the Faculty of Law filed a case at the court demanding to work in this position and recently won the case in the first instance. Marwa [...]

PARKERSBURG – Superintendent Pat Law says Wood County Schools has not violated any federal laws with its gender-based classes, but officials will seek legal counsel before addressing concerns voiced by the ACLU. Law read a prepared statement at Tuesday’s Wood County Board of Education meeting, addressing a recent letter sent by the American Civil Liberties [...]

JPMorgan Chase Co. (JPM) (JPM)’s biggest U.S. competitors say their corporate investment offices avoid the use of derivatives that led to the bank’s $2 billion loss and buy fewer bonds exposed to credit risk. Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Citigroup Inc. (C) (C) and Wells Fargo Co. say the offices don’t trade credit-default swaps on [...]

NEW YORK, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Cadwalader, Wickersham Taft LLP (Cadwalader), a leading counselor to global financial institutions and corporations, today announced a strengthening of its Beijing team with the addition of Special Counsel Jie Huang, a leading corporate attorney with deep experience in China; especially the internet, media, telecommunications sectors. “Jie [...]

Graduates from more than 20 countries have received their degrees from the University of Connecticut’s School of Law, where civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis from Georgia’s 5th district urged them to use law to lift society to a higher plane. The Law School’s commencement Sunday drew more than 2,000 people to its [...]

Following a wave of state education reforms spurred by its Race to the Top competition, the Education Department said Tuesday that individual school districts will be able to compete for $400 million in grants to bring the initiative to the classroom level. School districts with at least 2,500 students and 40 percent or more qualifying [...]

The security vendor Trusteer is warning banks to look out for a sophisticated Trojan capable of emptying the account of an online customer. The criminal scheme perpetrated through the Tatanga Trojan has already attacked the sites of several German banks, and Trusteer expects it to be reconfigured in time for banks in other countries, including [...]

Rich Ricci, who jointly runs Barclays’ (BCS) corporate and investment banking business, has said companies need to “embrace” the concept of a long-burgeoning European bond market to reduce their reliance on bank funding. Ricci, who is co-chief executive of the unit formerly known as Barclays Capital, this morning said that companies needed to reduce their [...]

MEDFORD, Mass. and SHANGHAI, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Top graduate schools partner to provide unique opportunity for dual degrees in international affairs and international business The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (The Fletcher School) and China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) today announced an agreement to establish a [...]