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Byline: Andrew Ackerman WASHINGTON - Dealers are urging regulators not to impose fees on them to help fund the Governmental Accounting Standards Board until after a congressional watchdog agency completes [...]

Byline: Jakema Lewis Jay Vleeschhouwer has joined Ticonderoga Securities where he will provide coverage of the software technology sector. The New York, N.Y. firm has been expanding its institutional equity [...]

Bank of America Corp. has taken lots of heat for its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, but there's no denying that Merrill's securities research has been a real asset to BofA. [...]

Merger Mania: Handicapping the Field Who's next? That's the No. 1 question on bankers' minds after this summer's dramatic string of megamergers. And, if analysts who follow the biggest players [...]

The New York Stock Exchange, in a development that could dull its competitive edge, is starting to look more like an electronic communications network. With the number of automatic executions [...]

At the beginning of the week, UBS Securities LLC was due to tell New Jersey officials which of the state's assets should be leased or sold to private companies. Most [...]

Add First Horizon National Corp. of Memphis to the roster of companies that Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. believes could be sellers down the road. The New York investment bank [...]

Puerto Rican banking companies face more fundamental issues than the accounting problems that have dogged several of them recently, a UBS Securities LLC analyst said. Omotayo Okusanya cut his earnings [...]

This study is intended to contribute to development of a deeper understanding of how and to what extent various regulatory and legislative mandates have impacted compliance-related activities at U.S. securities [...]

Wall Street research scandals and the conflicting in-house pressures that led to passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the global research analyst settlement were focused on the equities side of [...]

Health care information technology stocks continued their slight slide in the second quarter, but have nowhere to go but up in the second half of the year, predicts Andrew Weinberger, [...]

Global daily trading volume in exchange-traded funds in the first half of the year increased 18.4% from a year earlier, to $14.8 billion, according to data from Morgan Stanley. Assets [...]

Capital One Financial Corp. reported a 25-basis-point rise in chargeoffs last month from October, but an analyst said loan growth and lower delinquencies bode well for credit quality. The managed [...]

Three Wall Street veterans have launched a service that aims to provide timely research on initial public offerings for institutions and retail investors while other sources of information are locked [...]

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. shares have dropped 14% over the past three months because of concerns about rising rates and potential legal and regulatory costs, but one analyst says [...]

With investment banks prohibited from issuing research on Google Inc. during the quiet period preceding an initial public offering, independent research providers are seizing the opportunity to put themselves on [...]

Accredited Home Loans Inc., San Diego, has 'an experienced management team that utilizes technology tools to identify lending opportunities and has effectively implemented its loan origination system,' according to a [...]

Data aggregation and information systems represent a key cog in risk management, according to a white paper released last month by a joint forum comprising the Basel Committee on Banking [...]

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and Canadian Depository for Securities will spend the next four to six months studying ways to collaborate on such areas as risk management, transaction [...]

The word 'sell' is being heard at Merrill Lynch & Co. a little more frequently since it reached its ground-breaking settlement on May 21 with New York Attorney General Eliot [...]

With new order disclosure and execution quality rules going into effect, Bruce Weber, associate professor and director of the Zicklin School of Business' Subotnick Financial Services Center, at Pace University, [...]

An industry expert is disputing one of the bond market's most recent bits of common wisdom-that the more transparent bond trading gets, the lower the prices of bonds. The issue [...]

FleetBoston Financial Corp. is the latest large regional banking company to come under scrutiny for its exposure to capital markets and private equity markets, but it is faring better than [...]

The performance of Ginnie Mae bonds backed by adjustable rate mortgages has become easier to predict, according to analysts at Bear Stearns & Co. The investment bank recently released results [...]

WASHINGTON - When consumers need money, they are turning increasingly to brokerages, finance companies, and mortgage lenders, the Federal Reserve Board said in an in-depth report released Tuesday. 'Reflecting ongoing [...]

With the mutual fund industry still considering the impact of individual investors shifting out of funds and into direct bond investment, Charles Schwab is weighing in with a study on [...]

NEW YORK - Merrill Lynch & Co. strategists said Thursday they expect a shift in assets from stocks to bonds. 'We don't know whether we are definitely at the top [...]

By RING, NIAMH Charles Schwab & Co., which invented the mutual fund supermarket with thousands of portfolio choices, is now warning investors about 'overload.' A study from the San Francisco [...]

Investor optimism hit a five-year low early this month, according to a brokerage's quarterly survey of its most active customers. The survey, by the discount brokerage Quick & Reilly Inc., [...]

Although women set investment goals, conduct research, and evaluate risks, they are not as confident in their investing skills as men, a Prudential Securities study found. The national study polled [...]

WASHINGTON -- The National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers is launching a study designed to identify the continuing disclosure practices of bond issuers in 10 states, beginning this [...]