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      <title><![CDATA[If Dodd's bill stalls, what's next for regulatory reform? ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126749</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Senate Banking Committee began a debate Thursday on a discussion draft offered by its chairman, Chris Dodd (D-Conn), of a proposed omnibus financial regulatory reform bill.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SEC to improve selection process for adviser exams]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126748</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has agreed to implement recommendations for improving its process of selecting which investment advisers and investment companies to examine.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SIFMA C&L conference: SEC and FINRA enforcement changes]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126771</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Senior Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority officials described recent enforcement initiatives at SIFMA's compliance and legal fall seminar in New York, entitled Securities Regulation In The New World Order.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas, SEC says ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126743</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission sued an investor relations firm Wednesday over public misrepresentations and material omissions about the financial state of an issuer client while selling hundreds of millions of the client's unregistered shares.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SEC charges adviser, CCO over Ponzi-like scam]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief to halt the continuing false disclosures being made by a Los Angeles-area investment adviser.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[House delays regulatory reform till after Thanksgiving]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass) said Thursday he will delay a final vote on an omnibus systemic regulation bill until the first day the committee convenes after the Thanksgiving recess.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jury acquits Georgia lawyer accused of laundering client's drug money]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126747</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Lawyers who accept drug money as legal fees can rest a little easier thanks to the "not guilty" verdict in the case of a Georgia lawyer who has been acquitted of money laundering.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Jersey financial adviser admits laundering Ponzi proceeds]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126742</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A New Jersey financial adviser and broker has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and state money laundering charges for running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme and laundering the proceeds.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lazarenko sentenced to eight years in prison ordered to forfeit nearly $23m]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126750</link>
      <description><![CDATA[More than five years after he was convicted of money laundering and other crimes, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Treasury wants single risk regulator, not council]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126751</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, has said that institutions that pose a risk to the financial system should be supervised by a single regulator with clear lines of authority and accountability and not by a council of different regulators.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[FINRA fines MetLife over email, OBA supervision]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126702</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined MetLife Securities Wednesday for failing to establish adequate supervisory systems to review brokers' communications with the public and their participation in outside business activities and private securities transactions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Frank panel votes to require skin in the game, shrink healthy firms to cut risk]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126712</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The House Financial Services Committee voted Wednesday to let the proposed Financial Services Oversight Council limit activities and order divestures at large but healthy financial holding companies that pose grave threats to the economy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo, state securities regulators settle over ARSs]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126713</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The North American Securities Administrators Association announced a settlement in principle Wednesday for Wells Fargo Investments to return some $1.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Experts say multinational systemic regulation is too cumbersome to work ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126714</link>
      <description><![CDATA[House Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman Paul Kanjorski (D-Penn) is considering having the US coordinate systemic risk regulation with the Europeans, but experts tell Complinet the effort may be too cumbersome to be effective.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[National Instrument 31-103 registration requirements and exemptions: what it means for Canadian advisers, brokers and dealers]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126524</link>
      <description><![CDATA[With the introduction of National Instrument 31-103 on September 28, 2009, Canada's securities regime has moved one step further towards a harmonized system that will standardize communication between dealers, advisers and investors.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Success of UBS settlement likely to prompt DoJ and IRS to target other banks]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126701</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice is touting the number of Americans who have confessed their offshore tax dodges to the Internal Revenue Service as a result of "previous settlements of civil and criminal cases against Swiss banking giant UBS AG".]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Missouri title company owners face bank fraud and money laundering charges]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The owners of a title company in western Missouri have been indicted for their alleged roles in a $2.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[DoJ official warns firms about the potential consequences of FCPA transgressions]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126700</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anyone who doubts the US Department of Justice's commitment to enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act would do well to consider the remarks that Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general, delivered to the 22nd National Forum on the FCPA.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Another state targets internet payday lenders, collectors]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The attorney general for West Virginia is suing 17 payday lenders and collection agencies in the latest effort by state prosecutors to halt unfair or deceptive and unfair practices in the payday lending industry.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SEC to focus anti-fraud efforts through new task force]]></title>
      <link>http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=126657</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission will target its anti-fraud efforts through a new financial crime task force President Barack Obama launched Tuesday, SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami said at a Washington DC press conference.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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