Or it could try to buy the merged firm later, but regulators might object to this.
Sanctimonious industry regulators might want to take a gander at the stock symbols for Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
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Indeed, regulators might ask whether such institutions should be allowed to indulge in risky proprietary trading at all.
The idea that regulators might come to specify the composition of software packages makes most in the industry cringe.
In theory, regulators might ride to Mr Eisner's rescue and block a merger of Disney and Comcast, but it seems unlikely.
If so, regulators might need to increase sharply the amount of capital that financial firms hold to protect themselves against extreme conditions.
Goldman is worried American regulators might construe the media furore as marketing and publicity, which would make it in contravention of securities laws.
Regulators might have prevented the bank from relying so much on wholesale markets, but a disastrous takeover could have wrecked it as well.
If Provenge had been reviewed by the division of the FDA that usually decides on cancer drugs, regulators might have summarily rejected it.
U.S. regulators might not be able to rein in pay incentives as their European counterparts have, but they have been aggressive on balance-sheet risk.
But the regulators might take a more forgiving approach next time.
Obama administration officials say they have listened to the concerns of the restaurant and retail industry and that regulators might offer some flexibility on that issue.
Nevertheless, Citi executives had been reluctant to change course, mindful that regulators might criticise any effort to undue decisions the bank made to stem losses and contain risk.
If one were to fail, national regulators might be tempted to grab the assets they can get their hands on to protect the deposits of their own citizens.
Without the resolution regime, regulators might face the same unappetising choices they had in 2008: allow the firm to go bankrupt (like Lehman Brothers) or bail it out (like AIG).
Executives at publicly listed companies should be aware that if they fail to align pay policies with performance, regulators might be inclined to intervene to change the rules of the game.
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The hope is that regulators might have a means to impose losses on the private sector in a controlled way, and not just face a binary choice between bail-out or oblivion.
Regulators might not like that, since the market will in effect be divided into three parts and limit the choice for buyers to two media powerhouses and a cluster of small companies.
U.S. regulators might scrutinize such a deal, but Smithfield claims regulatory hurdles will be few and is apparently willing to sell off some assets of the combined company to finish the deal.
At the same time, GE officials did a lot of what Elizabeth Comstock, chief marketing officer, calls "pulsing, " in Washington, to sense where Congress and regulators might be heading, especially on the issue of carbon dioxide emissions.
If Mr Murdoch believed that changing his line on the euro would help him with the regulators he might swiftly become more accommodating.
What's never explained here is where we might find the regulators in possession of the skills necessary to rein in the sharpest financial minds in the world, and once that's explained, they might enlighten us as to why taxpayers need to support regulators to oversee what is a voluntary transaction between a buyer and the seller.
But Mr. Johnson apparently didn't seek out directors, regulators or others who might have intervened and helped improve matters.
And Mr. Geithner's argument that British regulators were ultimately responsible might have been faulty given the fact Libor is a global interest rate that affects borrowing costs for U.S. corporations and consumers.
Public pensions are a political minefield and before aggressively pursuing these cases it is understandable that regulators and law enforcement might choose to proceed with the utmost of caution, or not at all.
Another approach might be for regulators to specify how big investment banks can be compared with commercial banks.
An alternative approach might be for regulators to recognise each other's rules governing the sale of financial services.
Regulators also hint that it might eventually be necessary to supervise credit hedge funds, now monitored via their brokers.
Regulators feared that fund groups might compromise investors' interests to curry favor with large companies, whose retirement plans they also manage.
Ever since the demise of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, regulators have worried that banks might lend too much to individual funds.
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