While commodity products like ETFs have natural price competition working in their favor and large institutions have internal staff and consultants to negotiate on their behalf, individual investors face a host of challenges in the war on fees.

FORBES: Price Wars Heat Up Investment World

Industry insiders report that prudent institutions were running internal valuation models even when market prices were clearly observable: those that were not had to scramble to develop such models when markets seized up, causing delays in proper disclosure.

ECONOMIST: An accounting standard comes under the microscope

Rather than focusing on money laundering that results from substantive criminal violations, such as mail or wire fraud, drug crimes, or corruption, federal prosecutors are looking instead at weaknesses in the internal procedures employed by financial institutions to prevent laundering.

FORBES: Financial Institutions: How Much More Will You Have to Spend on Anti-Money Laundering Programs to Avoid Criminal Prosecution?

Is it also possible that local affiliates, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, were in fact funded by resources provided by multilateral institutions to those countries rather than through the internal capital markets?

FORBES: Too Big To Fail Or Too Small To Maintain Stability?

The launch will include a panel discussion, with participation of Members of Parliament and Planning Commission, key policy makers, researchers from renowned universities and institutions and social activists on the challenges of internal migration in India, after which the floor will be open to questions by the Media.

UNESCO: All Events | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, requires foreign financial institutions to start reporting detailed information about U.S. account holders to the Internal Revenue Service in coming years.

WSJ: Foreign Deal on Tax Dodging