This quid pro quo bias that they share with journalists was a reason that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission passed Regulation FD.
It was just two years ago that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission implemented Regulation Fair Disclosure (RegFD) to stop companies from selectively sharing news with certain analysts or investors.
Earlier this year the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a regulation known as Reg NMS, which emphasises the need for markets to be speedy.
So bad has been the problem of late here in California that the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Commission has just approved a new set of guidelines for pet stores.
For example, the FDIC has the authority to wind down unstable financial firms, banking regulators have a tighter grip on setting capital standards, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have greater oversight over hedge funds and private equity firms, and the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission will coordinate regulation of derivatives.
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The Commission is working on regulation for short-selling, looking into dark pools and flash trading and changing some of its staff members all at the same time.
Oil and Gas UK has been lobbying ministers, asking them to resist attempts by the European Commission to introduce new regulation of offshore oil and gas health and safety.
Reliance on self-regulation The commission is ever more willing to allow the brokerage industry to self-insure, self-adjudicate (through mandatory arbitration) and even control public access to the brokerage industry's criminal and disciplinary histories.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the Commission president to speed up financial regulation.
The European Commission's latest stabs at regulation take a more pragmatic approach.
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The Commission said it would submit proposed regulation by the middle of the year on inter-bank fees aimed at ensuring a level playing field for all card providers.
Ms Baillie defended her record during her spell as social justice minister and said she was involved in setting up the McFadden Commission, which called for better regulation and support for charities.
The research, which was actually commissioned by the RAC Foundation, the Independent Transport Commission, the Office of Rail Regulation and Transport Scotland, also looks at the corresponding boom on the trains over the same period.
The bill now includes a Levesonesque press regulatory body, a recognition commission intended to validate voluntary press regulation - and there's been some rather inflated comment about the chances of "saving press freedom" by reversing the Puttnam amendments.
The European Commission, concerned with the detail of regulation, is an eager consumer of their specialist knowledge.
Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency responsible for securities regulation, wrote a letter full of objections.
This week, the European Commission produced proposals that would align bank regulation in the European Union with changes in the Basle committee's rules.
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The European Commission confirmed to the BBC that the regulation was adopted in 2003 and was due to come into force at the beginning of 2008.
Although Citizens United freed them from regulation by the Federal Election Commission, the IRS may withhold tax-exempt status if they engage in too much political activity, or if such activity is not germane to the ostensible social-welfare mission.
No piece of mutual fund regulation was ever implemented by the Commission without significant ICI input.
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Today, he spoke with the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission William Donaldson about how a lack of regulation helped create the downturn.
Berlin and Paris are calling on the European Commission to speed up work on stricter financial regulation, including proposals for an EU-wide ban of naked short-selling by July.
In 1999, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed and later ratified Regulation Fair Disclosure to address selective releases of material information by publicly traded companies and other issuers.
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Ms Reding admitted that there was not enough clarity in existing framework, but that a new data protection regulation, drawn up by the Commission at the end of January, would "bring further legal clarity".
And this week it won a major victory when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted (albeit narrowly) to approve Regulation NMS, which includes new trade-through-rules that require execution of orders even if it means going to rival exchanges to do so.
She said the bill would also create a Crofting Commission and a Crofting Register which would improve the regulation of crofting and maintain strong communities in some of Scotland's most fragile and remote lands.
After the failure of the Press Complaints Commission to tackle the phonehacking scandal, the future of press regulation is up for debate.
Hold the phone: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers are worried that the U.S Federal Communications Commission might be about to saddle them with some potentially damaging regulation.
The Fed's information-sharing agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission is not enough, and Geithner did not believe direct regulation of hedge funds is practical, but tighter supervision of the amount of risk taken on by lending to hedge funds could help prevent excessive leverage.
Although it is only voluntary, the commission made clear that it would call for legislation if self-regulation by the parties failed.
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