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Citi has confirmed that it is indeed moving its stock research unit out of Smith Barney, where it was placed following the stock research scandals of yesteryear, and Read more...

We've noted often that prosecutions and regulatory activity follow scandals. The New York Times highlights an area that many have identified as rife with conflicts: the auction rate securities Read more...

On Wall Street, life can change in a blink. One minute Stanley O'Neal is on top of the industry. A few quarters later, he's been dusted. But he is hardly alone. Financial News Online has put together Read more...

According to the Financial Times, Citigroup's CEO Chuck Prince is supporting a proposal to move its stock research unit back under an institutional clients division. The FT suggests that this is Read more...

Marketing practices in the vast mutual fund sales machinery were in the news a lot during the mutual fund scandals. The news value has been eclipsed by the credit crunch but this is interesting: Two Read more...

Recall the saga of Gary Aguirre, the former SEC staff lawyer who was forced out after he complained that his bosses were getting in the way of his insider trading investigation of Pequot Capital. In Read more...

Business Week calls CNBC's stock picking contest the American Idol of market watchers. If that's so, what a juicy scandal this is: Several top contestants may have exploited Read more...

The big mutual fund companies have fared very well domestically since the recent fund scandals Read more...

Citigroup has certainly had its fair share of regulatory snafus in recent years, at home and Read more...

The probe into whether broker-dealers tipped off hedge fund clients about mutual fund trades is very Read more...