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...James Cox, a securities law professor at Duke University, says such conflicts are normally policed aggressively by compliance departments and a series of violations would indicate a failure of leadership...
Directors respond to reports of rift by voicing ‘complete support’ for Mark Walter
Mark Walter said to have faced investor pressure over rift with Scott Minerd
Alexandra Court made changes that sparked tensions among fund manager leaders
...now has SecureDrop https://www.ft.com/securedrop/ This article has been amended to reflect that Frank Beardsley has not left the firm as originally reported Email the writers: sujeet.indap@ft.com; kara.scannell...
Merger of Blackstone and Starwood units covers 82,000 houses after buying foreclosed properties
...The writer is the FT’s US senior finance correspondent Illustration by James Ferguson...
...The labelling on the chart has been amended for clarity Letter in response to this article: The importance of making accurate comparisons / From James G Bridgeman, Quaker Hill, CT, US...
...The incident has since become the centre of a lasting storm over the conduct of former FBI director James Comey, who was fired last week by President Trump....
...Additional reporting by Shannon Bond in New York and James Politi in Rome...
...The federal probe comes at a sensitive time for 21st Century Fox, Mr Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James, who run the media company alongside their father....
...Some Democratic US lawmakers are now questioning whether Mr Trump interfered in the investigation by firing James Comey, the director of the FBI ....
...James Doty, PCAOB chairman, has already served a year beyond his tenure and it is not clear whether the incoming Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration will reappoint him....
...Additional reporting by Kara Scannell Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
German lender agrees deals with UK and US regulators over alleged transgressions
...Over the next few months, Ofcom will consider whether Sky and its chairman, James Murdoch — Mr Murdoch’s son, and the chief executive of 21st Century Fox — are “fit and proper” to hold and operate a UK broadcasting...
...“One of the things that give me hope is that he is a highly skilled corporate attorney who really knows securities laws,” said James Angel, a professor at Georgetown University, who does not know Mr Clayton...
...Here are the key points of what the FT's James Fontanella-Khan, Sujeet Indap, Joe Rennison and Kara Scannell found out: The asset manager invested at least $1bn of client money in companies where Guggenheim...
...Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator, on Tuesday pressed James Comey, the FBI director, to disclose publicly any evidence of such ties before next week’s inauguration day....
...These are real problems and they exist in many jurisdictions,” James Doty, chairman of the PCAOB, tells the Financial Times....
...In an affidavit, James Hirt, special agent supervisor in the California Department of Justice, wrote: “There is probable cause to believe that employees of Wells Fargo Bank unlawfully accessed the bank’s...
...Shotter and Kara Scannell....
...As Ben McLannahan, Kara Scannell and Gary Silverman spell out in the FT’s Big Read on Thursday, the German bank was on the hunt for big clients in the mid-1990s, just as Trump was seeking fresh sources of...
...James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said he was “highly confident” that Mateen was inspired in part by such material....
...He said he had been unable to make a judgment on the reports’ accuracy and handed the information to James Comey, the FBI director....
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