Maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time. But then, it was so stupid and flawed that the time must have been 2am!Pilloried by congressmen and the banking industry, the Securities and Exchange has...

The US administration's paranoid obsession with terrorism has gone too far with the Securities and Exchange Commission's link on state sponsors of terrorism. It's a knee-jerk reaction...

Eleven years ago, Bill Clinton came out with the extraordinarily deceptive statement that "the era of big government is over".It was complete garbage then and his Republican successor went...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seems to have lost tens of millions of dollars through improper and fraudulent payments, according to a report from the Government Accountability...

Now for the fallout from the British Government decision to drop the corruption probe into a massive defence deal involving BAE Systems, the world's fourth largest defence contractor, and Saudi...

If accountants think the regulators here are tough, spare a thought for Liu Yibing who has been sentenced to death in China for running a scam.Actually, it's all part of China's crackdown on...

This week, I interviewed Jeremy Cooper, the deputy chairman of the Australian corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.We covered many topics, from private equity and...

Pencil in March 26. That's when Citigroup has to deal with the lawsuit over insider trading and failure to manage its conflicts of interest.Citigroup is being sued by the Australian Securities...

The Securities and Exchange Commission, panned by Congress for its handling of a trading probe that entangled Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, is now under investigation from the Government...

The Securities and Exchanges Commission is in the firing line again with departing SEC commissioner Cynthia Glassman saying the SEC, the body that's supposed to enforce standards for financial...

More developments in the Citigroup-insider trading case in Sydney today. And reading the court document filed by the Australian corporate regulator today left me wondering whether the Australian...

British Airways faces a joint US-UK investigation into price fixing.The probe is on ticket prices, and particularly the fuel surcharges airlines have been adding to offset the rising cost of...

Fascinating to follow the coverage of former New York Stock Exchange chief Richard Grasso invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions more than 150 times in relation to a deposition...

I have one rule of thumb with companies:If I don't understand what they are doing, and they can't or won't explain(Q: So what do you do? A: We leverage our capabilities to provide clients...

Software maker and bug buster McAfee has been pinged $50 million for its accounting shenanigans in fiscal 2000 which resulted in a $120 million shortfall and lawsuits over its revenue recognition...

New York Attorney-General Elliot Spitzer's campaign over the last five years to expose corporate crooks and win billions in restitution has entered a new stage. So has power has gone to...