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Broker-dealer LPL overhauling compliance practices after fines
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - LPL Financial Holdings Inc, a fast-growing broker-dealer that offers services to more than 13,000 independent stockbrokers, is overhauling its compliance procedures following a flurry of regulatory complaints about sales abuses. LPL,...Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Fines, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Investment Service, Economy, Business and Finance
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FACTBOX-U.S. Treasury acts to avoid hitting debt limit
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday said the Obama administration was suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, a government employee pension fund, to help the nation keep paying its bills now...Tags: U.S. Congress, Economy, Business and Finance, Investments, Jack Lew, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Former GOP Senator Judd Gregg named CEO of lobbying group SIFMA
ReutersNEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association named former Republican Senator Judd Gregg as its chief executive officer, the lobbying group said Monday. The appointment of the veteran politician, who also was...Tags: Securities, Lobbying, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Judd Gregg, Economy, Business and Finance
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Too many defaults on modified mortgages
Considering the hoops that too many borrowers have to go through to obtain mortgage modifications, the news from the Treasury Department wasn't encouraging. In an April 24 report to Congress, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the...
Tags: Mortgages, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Services and Shopping, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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SEC review of brokerages use of arbitration not seen in 2013
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street brokerages' use of mandatory arbitration clauses merits a regulatory review, but the Securities and Exchange Commission will not have time to undertake one before 2014, an SEC commissioner said on Monday. The agency...Tags: Securities, Elisse Walter, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Economy, Business and Finance, Arbitration
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E-mail address locked in limbo
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)A company that overpromises what it can deliver should never deal with a lawyer. That's what Comcast did with Minneapolis attorneys Richard Fuller and Charles Horowitz, who recently opened a new two-person law firm. They ordered Comcast's business-...Tags: Justice System, Legal Service, Business Enterprises, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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3 big banks nearly halt foreclosure sales after U.S. tweaks orders
Sales of homes in foreclosure by Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. ground nearly to a halt after regulators revised their orders on treatment of troubled borrowers during the 60 days before they lose their homes. The banks...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Mortgages, Foreclosures, U.S. Department of the Treasury, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Distressed homes lure cash investors
Miami HeraldHouse hunters looking to buy a foreclosure in South Florida often discover they are getting outflanked by the pros: investors wielding cash. "If you don't have cash, or you're looking for financing, you can't play in the distressed arena,'' said Doug...Tags: Auction Service, Economy, Business and Finance, Property, Real Estate, Condos
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Hampton Roads apartment market getting overbuilt?
The Virginian-PilotBulldozers are making room for new high-end apartments and retail space on Granby and Freemason streets and across the alley on Boush Street in downtown Norfolk. Buddy Gadams, the developer behind the yet-to-be-named project, is building 136 luxury...Tags: Old Dominion University, Hampton Roads, Rentals, Real Estate, Condos
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Orlando woman lied about military service to avoid paying mortgage, feds say
No lie was too big to tell for an Orlando woman who wanted a new home in Pensacola, but didn't want to pay the mortgage for her Orlando home, federal officials said. Chantal M. Lanton, 37, of Orlando is accused of falsely claiming to be an officer in...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System, Mortgages, U.S. Military, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Tiny houses' are growing in popularity
BALTIMORE — Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet — one-tenth the size of the average new American house — and sits in his Maryland yard. He and wife Renee can...
Tags: Tameka Cottle, Rentals, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland)
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Short sales routinely show up in credit reports as foreclosures
WASHINGTON — Are large numbers of homeowners who have negotiated short sales with lenders at risk because of a startling omission in the American credit system? Do their credit reports and scores indicate that they were foreclosed upon, rather...
Tags: Federal Housing Administration, Consumers, Freddie Mac, Economy, Business and Finance, Real Estate
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