Federal law requires either state or federal registration of financial advisers or their firms not already licensed as stockbrokers.

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The energy sector (which also includes oilfield suppliers and refineries) accounts for 14 new issues so far this year and 9 more in registration, says Thomson Financial.

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The final regulations provide streamlined registration and compliance procedures for groups of financial institutions including commonly managed investment funds.

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Workday, a red-hot enterprise software company started by former PeopleSoft execs David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has filed confidentially with the SEC for an initial public offering, Reuters reports, making use of a provision of the JOBS Act that allows companies to keep financial details private during the early stages of the registration process.

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But on Monday, a court in Sochi said Mr Lebedev's registration was invalid because he had failed to submit a financial document.

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If passed, the law would become one of the strictest voter registration laws in the country and would provide significant logistical and financial barriers for a variety of groups, including student and minority voters.

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Ports Design, our cover subject, shows a financial address in Hong Kong, where we list it, though the stores are run out of Xiamen and registration's in Bermuda.

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