Delaware granted securities issuers and their transfer agents extensions to try to re-establish contact with shareholders who hadn't been in touch about their accounts for three years.
It is true the ratings agencies dealt with a much smaller universe of mortgage-backed securities issuers and wanted to make sure they kept getting a stream of deals, Hill said.
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The Court denied certiorari on May 14, but by that time, securities issuers like the petitioner in that case, Bulldog Investors, had a new, and improbable, champion for its speech rights Congress.
Securities issuers can adjust the risk in such bonds by requiring more cash to build up inside the security before it begins paying interest and insurers can reduce their risk by increasing the losses bondholders must bear before the policy kicks in.
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Other investors have ridden the MBIA roller coaster as the company has skirted death over its overwhelming insurance claims, then negotiated settlements with mortgage underwriters and securities issuers like Flagstar it says misled it about the quality of the underlying loans it insured.
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We believe the managers of equity based portals should have the securities and investing sophistication needed to help issuers sell securities.
She is combining two formerly separate divisions that focus on an array of processing, trust, custody, and other securities services for issuers and investors.
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Keep in mind that municipal securities are subject to a number of risks including, but not limited to: Interest Rate Risk, the risk that the market value of fixed-income securities may fluctuate when interest rates change, and Prepayment Risk, the risk that the issuers of individual securities may prepay them at a time when interest rates have declined.
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They then conspired with issuers of securities and individual stock brokers, to defraud union pension plans.
Siedle: It seems as if we are in a new era where issuers of securities, at least with respect to 401k plans, are no longer required to deliver prospectuses to investors prior to or contemporaneous with an investment.
Even the issuers feel their securities are being used as pawns in a game.
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Its analysts are paid by the buyers of the securities it rates, not the issuers.
Government bailout programs have been primarily available to financial institutions and issuers, not to securities lending pools.
Such agencies are paid by the issuers of bonds and other securities for ratings, raising concern about potential conflicts of interest.
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Critics say the ratings agencies gave improperly high ratings to mortgage-backed securities because they were paid by the issuers and had an incentive to fudge.
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They will miss the comfortable refuge from default risk, the wealth of noncallable issues, the exemption from state income tax and the dependable benchmark that corporate bond issuers use to price their securities.
But the ratings agencies were being compensated by issuers of the mortgage-backed securities, and neuroeconomics says that created big problems.
Traditionally, issuers complied with Regulation FD (which was intended to prevent issuers from selectively disclosing important information to securities analysts and institutional investors before it was made known to the general public) by disseminating press releases that simultaneously were filed with the SEC.
Before the JOBS Act, issuers with more than 500 shareholders had to file financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But the next wave of ETF issuers is approaching, thanks to a flurry of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings and orders towards the end of 2012 and on in to the beginning of 2013.
The antitrust suit is a companion piece to a separate securities case in the same court against the same investment banks, plus some 300 individual stock issuers over inflated postoffering prices.
Utah's governor signed into law last month a controversial measure that would force brokerages in the state to pay issuers if they handle trades that fail to deliver and then do not report those failures to the state securities department within 24 hours.
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