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Aimed at banks, Volcker Rule hits unlikely targets

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- Some public agencies that rely on the municipal bond market for financing fear that a landmark financial reform rule will cripple their ability to sell bonds and make it more expensive to raise money for crucial services.

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SEC chief backs bill on lawmaker insider trading 22 Feb 2012

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. securities regulator endorsed a bill that would put new curbs on insider trading by members of Congress, but cautioned that constitutional protections for lawmakers could make it hard to enforce.

U.S. charges 2 execs of China-based Puda with fraud 1:41am EST

- U.S. securities regulators charged two executives of China-based Puda Coal Inc with fraud, saying they led investors to invest in an empty shell company instead of an actual coal business.

Exclusive: Wynn aims to kick Okada off Macau board Friday 22 Feb 2012

LOS ANGELES - Casino mogul Steve Wynn will convene an emergency meeting of the directors of Wynn Macau on Friday with the goal of kicking his former friend and partner Kazuo Okada off the board, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Swiss demand banks help clean up tax-haven image 22 Feb 2012

BERNE - Switzerland announced plans on Wednesday to force its secretive banks to do more to make sure foreign clients' money is taxed in an attempt to shake off its image as a haven for untaxed funds as it seeks to end a damaging U.S. tax probe.

Burned before, Fed officials cautious on rebound 22 Feb 2012

WASHINGTON - U.S. central bank officials have good reason to be skeptical about the strength of the economy: excessive optimism has caught them flat-footed before.

Are commodity merchants "swap dealers" by any other name? 21 Feb 2012

HOUSTON - Big energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell and commodity merchants like Cargill have a simple argument in pushing back against looming new swap market rules: We're not a bank, so don't regulate us like one.

U.S. farm-loan giant confident it will stay free of Dodd-Frank 21 Feb 2012

CHICAGO - The Farm Credit System, a giant government-linked lender to U.S. farmers and rural communities with $230 billion in assets, is confident it can stay mostly exempt from oversight by U.S. banking regulators despite bitter criticism by competing private banks, Farm Credit officials say.

Moody's reviewing thousands of U.S. muni obligations 21 Feb 2012

- Moody's Investors Service is sweeping a magnifying glass over thousands of U.S. municipal sector obligations that are linked to 26 banks currently under review for possible credit rating downgrades, it said on Tuesday.

MF Global failure creates tax crunch for farmers 21 Feb 2012

CHICAGO - With the tax man breathing down his neck, Ohio farmer Tony Rohrs is scrambling to figure out how much money he made last year in an account at MF Global.

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