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By Matthew Flamm
March 4, 2009
(Crain’s New York Business)—CBS Corp....
By Aaron Elstein
March 4, 2009
(Crain’s New York Business)—Twenty-three years ago, Midland Insurance failed, sunk by billions worth of claims from...
By Neil Roland
March 4, 2009
Federal banking regulators knew as far back as 2002 about problems at First National Bank Holding Co.’s banks in Arizona, California and Nevada, but failed to act until shortly before their demise...
By Jeff Casale
March 4, 2009
(Business Insurance)—Hartford Financial Services Group is in talks to sell most of its life insurance unit to Canada’s Sun Life Financial,...
By Neil Roland
March 3, 2009
In the most direct evidence yet tying UBS Chairman Peter Kurer to oversight failures at the Swiss bank, the U.S. Justice Department last month criticized as inadequate an internal investigation that...
By Matt Scroggins
March 2, 2009
(A better way to save AIG?
By Ronald Fink
March 2, 2009
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By Neil Roland
February 25, 2009
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a number of foreign banks’ compliance with the so-called Qualified Intermediary program, which was adopted in 2000 to help the agency track U.S....
By Neil Roland
February 24, 2009
In a pointed criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the financial bailout, the head of a congressional oversight panel said the new Treasury Department plan “lacks crucial details,”...
By Matthew Quinn
February 24, 2009
Nearly $900 billion in U.S. corporate bonds were downgraded in 2008, representing 24% of the total U.S. bond market, according to Fitch Ratings....
By Neil Roland
February 24, 2009
The Federal Reserve forecast an inflation rate of less than 1% this year and less than 1.7% for 2010 and 2011, sparking debate about whether Chairman Ben Bernanke is doing enough to prevent a...
By Jeff Casale
February 20, 2009
(Business Insurance)—The Atlanta Braves have filed a lawsuit against Hartford Life Insurance Co., alleging breach of contract on a disability...
By Colleen McCarthy
February 20, 2009
(Business Insurance)—Former American International Group chairman Maurice R....
February 18, 2009
Embattled insurer MBIA has launched a separate bond insurance company focused on public finance and said it will no longer use credit derivatives to back insurance across its businesses....
By Ronald Fink
February 18, 2009
Financial counterparty risk is back up to where it was when Bear Stearns ran into trouble, according to an index that tracks prices of credit default swaps on the 14 dealers that account for the vast ...
By John D’Antona Jr.
February 18, 2009
(OpEd: Volcker, Group of 30 over the top on money-market funds
By Stephen A. Keen
February 16, 2009
Group wants to take bazooka to money-market funds. A popgun would do the trick, says industry veteran....
By Roberto Ceniceros
February 16, 2009
Injured workers delaying return to uncertain jobs. Meanwhile, laid-off staffers are filing new injury claims....
By Meg Fletcher and Jeff Casale
February 16, 2009
But assorted insurance policies probably too rich for all but the largest companies....
By Matthew Quinn
February 12, 2009
Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group revealed in a regulatory filing on Thursday that because of credit ratings downgrades it no longer has access to the Federal Reserve’s Commercial Paper...
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