With the financial sector as a whole awaiting a regulatory clampdown following the mayhem of the past 18 months, the UK’s Financial Services Authority has unveiled proposals to extend the

The new US president already has a headache in the tainted reputation of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Two senior US senators, Michigan Democrat Carl Levin and Iowa Republican Charles Grassley, have taken the first steps toward the inevitable introduction of regulation of US hedge funds and

A hearing with UK members of parliament yesterday gave hedge fund managers and industry representatives the opportunity to reiterate the view that the problems of the world’s financial mar

In a resolute move, the European Commission has adopted a set of measures to strengthen the supervisory framework for EU financial markets in order to improve supervisory co-operation and

The regulatory powers on both sides of the Atlantic are proposing sweeping changes to broaden oversight in the financial system.

Yesterday evening it was revealed that German billionaire Adolf Merckle, 74, had committed suicide on Monday night, apparently throwing himself in front of a train on a line near his home

One would have thought that the Financial Services Authority’s proposal yesterday not to renew its ban on the short selling of UK financial sector stocks would be welcomed by hedge fund ma

‘Ring out the old, ring in the new’ is a new year catchphrase that may well be apposite for most financial sector players in 2009, but hedge fund managers may well find themselves facing m