The new rules should help promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well, regulators said.
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Mexican election regulators said they are investigating the allegations related to the gift cards.
What's more, federal safety regulators said Thursday they will investigate reports of brake problems on the 2010 Prius.
New York bank regulators said they are also discussing the issues with virtual currency exchanges operating in the state.
Instead, regulators said that they would not approve Risperdal Consta given current data.
No matter what the regulators said of me, my replacement was far worse.
The SEC will allow companies to announce news through social media, provided investors know to expect it, regulators said this afternoon.
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Separately, EU regulators said they did not have any reason to open an investigation into Microsoft's operating system for its tablets.
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On Thursday US regulators said they would allow Boeing to carry out test flights of 787 Dreamliner planes to test battery performance.
Congress and regulators said the too-big-to-fail situation was dangerous and would be dealt with, so this near calamity would never happen again.
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Regulators said that bonds remain off the books temporarily, reducing banks' and brokerage houses' official debt levels and allowing them to invest in more debt.
The regulators said that eligible homeowners whose homes were unlawfully foreclosed upon should expect to be contacted by the end of March with payment details.
At the time, federal regulators said there was no threat to public health, though they could not identify how much gas leaked or exactly why it had happened.
The "approach is particularly suited to firms which have the development backing, capital and infrastructure to allow them to set the bank up at speed, " the regulators said.
Last year, European regulators said the bank was not doing enough to combat money laundering, while intrigue in the Vatican was revealed by documents leaked by Pope Benedict's butler.
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In America in 2002, business loans held by domestic banks that were deemed to be in trouble grew by a third over the previous year, regulators said this week.
For DBS to get full control, Indonesian regulators said, Singapore would have to allow more Indonesian banks to open branches in the city-state, in what they called a "reciprocity" arrangement.
In a joint statement, the US Federal Reserve and other major US banking regulators said the deal "provides for a more stable banking system that is less prone to excessive risk-taking".
Dubai's reputation took a beating on Thursday when Swedish regulators said its main stock exchange had broken the law by announcing plans to buy more than 25% of OMX, a week before its official bid.
The regulators said in interviews that Albany must break down political hurdles so people can run for office without making concessions to party bosses, and state officials must begin to report suspicious behavior of colleagues.
Regulators said Tuesday that new banks will need to hold 4.5% in equity capital against assets, less than the roughly 10% levels required at the country's major banks, and the lowest level possible under coming international rules known as Basel III.
And the US Federal Reserve and bank regulators said that the downgrade won't affect the risk-weighting attached to US sovereign debt for banks - which means that US banks should not be deterred from lending to their government to any great extent.
Small-cap meat processor Zhongpin plunged 5% after U.S. regulators said they were looking into the possibility of insider trading at the company in connection with a privatization bid, the latest in a long string of governance issues involving U.S.-listed companies from China.
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Dubai's reputation took a beating on Thursday when Swedish regulators said its main stock exchange had broken the law by announcing plans to buy more than 25% of OMX (other-otc: OMGPF - news - people ), a week before its official bid.
Regulators are said to be examining how banks accounted for derivatives exposures held off balance sheet.
American regulators have said a random code will reduce confusion caused by mergers and acquisitions.
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But as federal regulators have said, a mandatory label implies erroneously a meaningful difference where none exists.
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They are called wealth-management products, which some Chinese regulators have said are sold with limited oversight or disclosure of what they contain.
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