If the SEC monetary penalty happens, it would be only the second time the regulator has fined a stock exchange.
People will argue that the regulator is stepping in at the wrong time and that the regulator's additional requirements will destroy growth in the area that is taking off.
Andy Duncan, its new chief executive, says the situation needs addressing now, not in five years' time as the media regulator, Ofcom, said in a review of public-service broadcasting in September.
The day after the reform package was announced, the head of Ofqual wrote to Mr Gove warning that introducing too much change at one time might mean the regulator could not guarantee the quality of the exams.
The Bush administration and Congress have been arguing for some time that a stronger regulator could reduce the threat Fannie and Freddie pose for taxpayers, and Secretary Henry Paulson in a speech in New York yesterday says that's a top priority.
The sale of packaged accounts by banks and building societies has been a source of concern for the regulator for some time.
The Healthcare Commission, which was the NHS care regulator at the time, may have brought the problems to national attention in its 2009 report, but it did not escape censure.
At the time Ofqual's chief regulator Glenys Stacey said that it was understandable that teachers were too generous with their marking because of the pressure on schools to achieve good grades.
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The regulator said at the time it wanted to "break the grip" of the big six energy firms.
Under the proposals, news websites published by both newspapers and other companies would fall under the remit of the press regulator for the first time.
Now it just so happens that that will be a three-year appointment and it comes to an end at about the same time as the period of the regulator, of Tom Windsor's position.
Mr McKenzie's resignation came as the exam boards and the exam regulator Ofqual were given more time to consider a legal challenge from teaching unions, schools and local authorities asking them to regrade English GCSE papers.
Northern Rock's strategy was at all time transparent to the market and to the regulator.
The hospital's director of nursing at the time Dr Helen Moss was cleared by her professional regulator the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) which said she had "no case to answer".
Companies that have an axe to grind with the European Competition Commission will be more compelled to take legal action against it now that the regulator has been told for the first time to pay damages for misjudging the legality of a takeover.
While the Treasury Department was not a party to any agreements, we have a great deal of respect for the leadership of each regulator and appreciate their efforts during this extraordinary time.
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On January 31st the Financial Services Authority, Britain's financial regulator, relaxed insurers' solvency requirements for the fourth time in 17 months to break the vicious circle.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spends so much time testifying before Congress these days, it might seem he barely has time for his day job as the central bank's top regulator.
The government said it was building on recent proposals by the energy regulator Ofgem, which has been looking into pricing for some time.
Representative Spencer Bachus, the Republican chair of the House Committee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, said in a letter to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt that the regulator should delay the listing by 90 days to give it time to "determine whether sufficient disclosure has been provided to potential investors" in the registration process.
What is clear is that the outcome matters a lot for pensions in Britain, as the regulator's authority is put to the test for the first time.
And as the FT points out this morning, for the first time ever UK pension funds now hold more bonds than equities: the Pensions Regulator shows that UK funds hold 43% of their assets in gilts and fixed-interest debt compared with just under 39% in equities.
Finally, FINRA admonished that for most of the relevant time period, Iola failed to annotate the documents with footnotes or disclaimers that the regulator suggests was necessary to made the date understandable.
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Exam regulator Ofqual had written to Mr Gove suggesting this should not go ahead at the same time as the other changes planned for GCSEs and A-levels.
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Even though the markets' tell tales are imperfect, they could be used to empower the regulator, which brings me to the second major obstacle to dynamic oversight: political opposition during the time of expansion.
On Thursday, the prime minister called time on cross-party talks on reforms and instead published plans for a royal charter to establish a tougher press regulator.
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