It plans to take over Montetitoli, the settlement agency of which it now owns 4.1%.
In 2009, he scuttled a settlement the agency negotiated with Bank of America involving bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives.
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The SEC investigations into the various Goldman CDOs are at different stages, another obstacle in reaching a catch-all settlement because agency officials aren't sure what those probes will yield.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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Though the SEC is proclaiming it the biggest settlement ever paid to the agency by a financial firm, many in the blogosphere complained Thursday that Goldman got a cushy deal.
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Other questions focused on Sir Philip Green's review of government efficiency, the abolition of the Health Protection Agency, and the settlement freeze in the West Bank.
In other words, the professional staff may prefer a rule that is far harsher than the political appointees would permit, so they find an accommodating activist group that will sue the agency, and then agree to a settlement that compels EPA to write the harsher rule.
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They are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
The Brunei Investment Agency took over the business in an out-of-court settlement of a legal action against the prince for alleged misuse of funds.
It isn't clear how the agency responded, but the SEC likely wouldn't agree to any broad settlement unless it was confident that the terms would withstand scrutiny from lawmakers and a federal judge who would have to approve the deal, according to people familiar with the SEC's position.
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