Finance Law

By CHRISTINA REXRODE The Associated Press E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type NEW YORK — More companies are getting together these days, but it’s no big deal. Corporate mergers and acquisitions were up for the first six months of this year in the United States, but only if you measure a certain way: The number [...]

In last week’s story, one former and two current faculty members questioned MCTC’s commitment to creating a diverse faculty. What may contribute to a lack of confidence in the college’s efforts is that while these and other concerned faculty members envision a faculty that reflects their student body, the college’s administration, under criteria set by [...]

By Katy Murphy kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com This summer, instead of staying home and watching TV, 50 children from one Oakland neighborhood are making scaled-down models of windmills and wheelchair-accessible ramps. A few miles away, at another middle school, students built a model roller coaster to study Newton’s laws of motion. A lesson about energy and the environment [...]

Would you be able to keep a secret for four years that was so big it would make the five large U.S. banks pay up about $25 billion in a legal settlement? Kyle Lagow of Plano, Texas, had to keep secret even from his wife and five children that he was one of the whistleblowers [...]

NEW YORK -More companies are getting together these days, but it’s no big deal. Corporate mergers and acquisitions were up for the first six months of this year in the United States, but only if you measure a certain way: The number of deals announced grew to nearly 5,900 through June, up from about 5,100 [...]

By Rick Rothacker and Lauren Tara LaCapra Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:56pm EDT (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase Co (JPM.N) and Wells Fargo Co (WFC.N) reported strong growth in their mortgage lending businesses and lower loan losses on Friday, offering signs of improvement in the U.S. economy. The banking giants cited increases in mortgage originations and [...]

Karachi—Based on the value of transactions closed in 2011 by NBP Investment Banking the CFA Association of Pakistan has declared NBP the winner of the ‘Top Corporate Finance House (Fixed Income) Award for the Year 2011’. Based on a competitive process an independent panel of judges determined that the volume, number, transaction complexity and other [...]

This summer, instead of staying home and watching TV, 50 children from one Oakland neighborhood are making scaled-down models of windmills and wheelchair-accessible ramps. A few miles away, at another middle school, students built a model roller coaster to study Newton’s laws of motion. A lesson about energy and the environment meant making solar ovens [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England confirmed on Friday the New York Federal Reserve had pressed changes to the way the key Libor interbank interest rate was set in 2008, and that the BoE had urged the British Bankers’ Association to take them on board. Earlier on Friday an email emerged from U.S. Treasury [...]