Since March, it has issued 132 summonses to eight accounting, law and investment banking firms demanding they turn over customer lists, opinion letters and other documents.
During the relevant period between December 1, 2011 and March 16, 2012, the AWC alleges that Cox advised and assisted his mother-in-law with her banking and investment accounts.
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This is particularly true in STEM professions (science, technology, engineering and math) and in professional services (like investment banking and law).
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As of March the IRS was investigating 70 accounting, law, investment banking and other firms for peddling abusive "technical shelters" to corporations and rich individuals.
With an overabundance of highly motivated graduates with impressive degrees entering the work force each spring, Major League Baseball can capitalize on the apprehensions of young adults when it comes to pursuing traditional and unstable careers in banking, financial services and law.
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The site aims to help banking, law and finance workers switch to more fulfilling careers.
The importance of this link is even greater in investment banking and law firms, where half the recruits have been former work experience students.
Even professions such as banking and law are becoming more specialized.
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Squadron calls it part of a larger strategy to make Bloomberg the go-to place for data analytics for an array of industries, including banking and law.
At Duke, unless you were an engineering person or some other kind of scientist-in-training, there were four hot career tracks: consulting, investment banking, law, and politics.
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Once formally agreed by parliament and member states, the law will begin the most complex and far reaching overhaul of the banking system since the credit crunch, requiring banks over the next six years to strengthen their buffers of equity and liquid assets to Basel standards.
He added that those with jobs in banking, finance and law would be somewhat cushioned, but that graduates starting out in the public sectors and charities would "really feel the pinch" this year.
Weill, instrumental in the repeal of the Glass-Steagall law that allowed the marriage of commercial and investment banking, is considered the father of such financial supermarkets.
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In an attempt to attract foreign investment, in March Libya approved a law that will introduce Sharia-compliant banking and stimulate the country's private sector, according to the ruling National Transitional Council.
Across Europe and in America, changes in banking law are being put in place which will make it easier to force bank creditors to share the pain of a failure next time.
Wriston's Law is named after the late Walter Wriston, a giant of banking and finance.
As the city's law firms have grown, so have its accountancy, merchant-banking and venture-capital businesses.
Islamic banking adheres to Shariah law by forbidding the charging of interest and investment in businesses involved in products or servces contrary to Islam.
"If you are on the board of the bank that is bidding on a multibillion-dollar banking deal, which is being financed according to Sharia law, and you sit on the board of a competitor that is also bidding, there is a real concern about insider information, " said Connolly.
Calls to revive Glass-Steagall, which would end securities and investment banking activities by commercial banks, have never been stronger since the law was repealed in 1999.
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That law - from the 1930s in the aftermath of the Great Depression - separated commercial and investment banking and was eventually abolished in 1999 under President Bill Clinton.
Beyond the budget, Lew is expected to hew closely to the positions Geithner struck on Europe's debt crisis, the U.S. relationship with China and the administration's defense of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law that the banking industry has fought to weaken.
"Public safety is paramount, " said Bernstein, managing partner of the Banking, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group for Michigan-based Plunkett Cooney law firm.
"The OCC has historically been thought to be sympathetic to banking interests, " said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and former director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's division of trading and markets.
After racing through Congress at near break-neck speed, the acronym-friendly Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act) has stranded in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs at least 11 other Senate and House bills that deal with securities law reforms.
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