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EDITOR'S NOTE
Weird things happened this quarter that read like plot devices that couldn't get past the censors of good taste for Jackass 3D. But be...
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(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2011 NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as isbeing done in connection with this case, at...
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Agencies Issue Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing Risk Retention Requirements of Dodd-Frank Act
Director of FINRA Corporate Financing Depart...
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In an panel discussion, several financial services executives shared their views on "the Ideal Basel." Michael Roster, former Executive VP and General Counsel, Golden West Financial, said that the Ideal Basel is probably one that management, boards of directors, regulators and the markets understand. Karen Shaw Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, said that it has been suggested that perhaps they should just keep the Basel I regime in place with its leverage requirement, but she thinks they will find that increasingly dangerous precisely because the cycle is turning. Wayne Abernathy, the Executive Director for Financial Institutions Policy and Regulatory Affairs at the American Bankers Association, said that the idea behind Basel I was that you should have one set of...
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Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is applied in financial service organizations to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. LSS prescribes that these improvements are designed and implemented by projects. The purpose of this article is to facilitate the process of defining ISS projects in finance, because the lack of a clear definition is an important cause of project failure, The authors' strategy is to provide seven standard project definitions (generic templates). Project leaders am use these templates as an example and as a guide in the definition phase, This will help them to formulate crystal clear project definitions that have explicitly stated goals and a solid business rationale. In this article, the authors will discuss these seven generic categories and show bow this simple categ...
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SYLLABUS
OCTOBER TERM, 2008
GROSS V. FBL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
GROSS v. FBL FINANCIAL SERVI...
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10-3399
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. v. Beland
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR...
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EDITOR'S NOTE
Weird things happened this quarter that read like plot devices that couldn't get past the censors of good taste for Jackass 3D. But b...
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INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION
The enactment of the Financial Services Modernization Act (1) of 1999 (known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) promised the...
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CASE DESCRIPTION
The case is a field-based, disguised case which describes the birth and continued growth of H & H Financial Services, LLC and how t...