Nervy clients have cut back on trading, and banks are under regulatory pressure to reduce their proprietary-trading activities.
With regulatory pressure increasing on energy hogs like data centers, the landlord with the best monitoring systems has the edge.
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Risk managers say that change is driven by regulatory pressure (68 percent) and the need to better manage risks (50 percent).
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Under the new rules, which have yet to be spelled out, it will face regulatory pressure to allow rivals into its market.
Nearly every automaker has at least one electrified vehicle on display, a reflection of how much regulatory pressure they're under to improve fuel economy.
But, as the Bank of England explained in its February Inflation Report, regulatory pressure has led banks to reduce their "risk-weighted assets" across the board.
In the U.K. where regulatory pressure has already led to substantial deleveraging, bank lending has slumped, borrowing costs have risen, the economy has flat-lined and bank shares have crashed.
However, generic companies are not immune to regulatory pressure.
They offer the most detailed public explanation of Brussels' concerns and hint at the likely shape of any deal, which would mark the first time Google has bowed to regulatory pressure on its core business.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) The last remaining television station critical of Venezuela's government is being sold to an insurance company owner who is apparently friendly with the ruling socialists, its owners announced Monday, following an unrelenting official campaign to financially strangle the broadcaster through regulatory pressure.
But with the economic outlook remaining cloudy and mounting regulatory pressure to build capital and curtail risky assets, banks might be forced to make some tough calls on which loans they will refinance or restructure, according to Benjamin Schrag, vice president of business development at Kurtzman Carson Consultants, which provides administrative support solutions to companies through their corporate restructuring process.
The Tompkins dispute with Chevy Chase Trust comes at a time when the finance industry, under intense regulatory and competitive pressure, facing another round of consolidation.
"There continues to be a lot of pressure on financial institutions, a lot of pressure from a regulatory standpoint, from a customer-service standpoint, from a ... capital standpoint, " said Jay Bray, chief executive of Nationstar, at an investor conference Tuesday.
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Providers of compliance applications are happy to see increased pressure from exchanges and regulatory authorities because it helps them increase sales.
Local authorities and regulatory agencies are also stepping up pressure on Pepco.
Over the last few years, the FCC has become increasingly untethered, drawing unwelcome scrutiny of its legal obligations as an independent regulatory agency, immune to political pressure from the White House or interest groups.
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"The UK insurance industry is currently under great pressure to implement an enormously complex regulatory framework, " said the ABI's Peter Vipond.
They have either been tied up in regulatory purgatory, court actions or just plain delayed under heavy pressure from Wall Steet.
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Andrew Riseley from the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities (CICRA) said Jersey Post was under "significant commercial pressure".
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