Corporate / Securities Law News

Legislation cleared the House on Friday that would place stricter requirements on the federal agency overseeing Wall Street to assess the costs and benefits of its regulations before they are issued.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-hungry capital city, local political battles are waged much as they are across the United States: with big personalities and bare-knuckled verbal brawls.

Here's how the state's members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Friday, May 17.

A key Senate Republican is asking U.S. securities regulators to extend for three months the time allotted for public comment on proposed rules aimed at fighting trading glitches on exchanges and clearinghouses.

ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan registered 327 new limited liability companies during April this year, raising the corporate portfolio to 62,203 companies.

Senior executives at Indiana's public companies last year received, on average, more in perks than the typical Hoosier earned all year, IBJ found after reviewing Securities and Exchange Commission documents for more than 60 Indiana companies.

" or the "Company"), a global provider of advanced communications and mobile broadband services, would like to inform its investors and regulators that it has come to our attention that the Company's shares have been listed on the The Company did not authorize or direct any broker on the BBSE to act as a market maker for the company's common stock.

Thailand's asset-management industry has been voted third-best in the world, according to a global investor survey revealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Council of Institutional Investors has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to intervene after the main company that provides real-time tabulations on shareholder votes stopped giving this information to the groups that sponsor proposals.

Editor's note: Al Franken, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Minnesota. Roger Wicker, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Mississippi.

Net Element International reported first-quarter net revenues of $874,515, which represents a significant increase over net revenues of $74,810 from the same period in the prior year as a result of launching its mobile payment processing business in Russia in the third quarter of 2012.

Rather than processing purchases in a chronological order, as is the common practice, the bank processed its customers' purchases from largest to smallest.

If regulation-hating conservatives were serious about shrinking government, they should go whole hog and press for the elimination of the Securities and Exchange Commission .

Orchestrate Inc. has raised nearly $2.8 million from investors, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission .

SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White on Thursday rejected Republican calls for the agency to steer clear of any rules that would require publicly traded corporations to disclose their political activity.

May 16 - The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to continue pursuing its impartial approach to opening up the books on corporate political spending, regardless of Congress members' fallacious attempts to use the IRS scandal to delegitimize the movement for disclosure rules.

Back in 1959, the electronic and aerospace industry in San Diego was dominated by giant General Dynamics.

Revenue increased by $0.9 and $7.1 million, for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2013, respectively.

The top U.S. derivatives regulator unveiled rules for swaps trading that could break open Wall Street's dominance of the $630 trillion market, yet contain important concessions to the industry.

Nasdaq OMX Group said it will not be responding directly to the request for proposals to build an industry-wide trail of stock and options trade details for the Securities and Exchange Commission.