Finance Law

The Business Finance Store discusses the option of peer-to-peer lending for small businesses seeking financing, in light of recent data on bank lending. Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) June 30, 2012 The nation’s four largest banks—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo—are lending less, Bloomberg News reported. The total loans from these four dropped [...]

Professor back as Law School dean N.C. Central University welcomes a new dean of the School of Law, Phyliss Craig-Taylor, in July. Craig-Taylor most recently served as associate dean for academics at Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte and worked as a law professor at NCCU from 2000 to 2006. Her areas of teaching include [...]

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Car buyers, ducks and geese, and those in search of tattoos or body piercing all get increased protections under new laws that take effect July 1. Most bills passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor take effect on Jan. 1 each year. But all or part of about two-dozen other [...]

LIMASSOL, Cyprus (Reuters) – Cypriot banks, whose heavy Greek losses forced the island to seek an international bailout this week, should ringfence their operations in Greece by the end of 2012 to cap further risks to the economy, Cyprus’s central bank chief said on Thursday. The euro zone minnow became the fifth casualty this week [...]

Pension funds are not exactly brimming over with extra money. In 2006, Congress was concerned enough about bolstering them to pass legislation closing loopholes and making companies set money aside more quickly. But the highway bill that Congress is rushing to complete by Friday contains a measure that would let companies slow their pension contributions [...]

John Sharp learned that Texas AM wanted a law school around 1972, when he was 22 years old. One of his first bosses, Bryan state Sen. William T. Moore, had been working toward the goal, but complained of interference from people like Frank Erwin, the politically connected chairman of the University of Texas System Board [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – A trio of constitutionally questionable measures and legislation designed to crack down on no-fault auto insurance fraud are among about 150 new Florida laws going into effect Sunday. A law that bans state and local governments from hiring companies that do business in Cuba and Syria already has been challenged in [...]

(CNN) — European leaders reached a “breakthrough” deal early Friday to ease the recapitalization of struggling banks that should help draw the eurozone back from the brink of a gathering crisis. Under the deal, European leaders agreed to create a single supervisory body to oversee the eurozone’s banks which could use the single currency area’s [...]

MUMBAI: In a move that could vindicate UK-based hedge fund TCI’s stand on Coal India, the Standing Committee on Finance has suggested a mandatory requirement for state-owned companies to disclose the financial impact of government directives. The move is prompted by Comptroller and Auditor General’s suggestions that some of the government directions to PSUs may [...]

GULFPORT, Fla., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Judge Patrick Robinson, past-president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, will serve a three-year role as a Distinguished International Fellow at Stetson University College of Law beginning in the fall. He will meet this July with Stetson Law students studying at The Hague [...]