proposal news from FierceFinance

You probably know that the much discussed consumer protection agency idea is impeding progress on a host of Wall Street reform methods. Aiming to get things moving in the Senate, this idea has... Read more...

Is the time ripe for some big reforms that would give shareholders more power to nominate and ultimately vote in new corporate directors? Corporate boards have fared poorly in the court of public... Read more...

Most people think that Congress may take a stab at hedge fund regulation next year. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has floated an interesting idea: Requiring hedge funds to have a charter that... Read more...

The key man in the still unfolding Microsoft-Yahoo pas de deux is not Steve Ballmer, not Jerry Yang, or even Eric Schmidt. It's investor activist Carl Icahn. The New York Times notes that while he... Read more...

As part of its package on CEO pay in 2007, Forbes offers up a profile of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein--the $74 million dollar man. The piece notes that after it became known that Read more...

It's in vogue these days for boards to split the CEO and chairman jobs in the name of good corporate governance. You would think it would be an easy sell at Morgan... Read more...

Do you remember when Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York and no stranger to the financial industry, gave the bond insurance industry five days to get its act together, even as he lobbies for a... Read more...

Investment Dealers' Digest reports that California has proposed a rule requiring hedge funds with $25 million or more in assets and fewer than 15 clients to register with the state. Comments are... Read more...

The Financial Times notes that a 'code of conduct' for private equity firms in the U.K. has kicked up some controversy. The code was drafted by a former regulator to push the industry to voluntarily... Read more...

After the news hit that Congress would not seek a bill to hike taxes on the carried interest of private equity funds, many people, including me, thought the issue was dead. Turns out that judgment... Read more...