David Smagalla
Bureau Chief, Risk and Compliance Journal at The Wall Street Journal
Bureau chief for WSJ's Risk & Compliance Journal. Purveyor of news of various sorts and the latest odd animal video. Any opinions here are my own.
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3 weeks ago |
createsend.com | David Smagalla
Good morning. Champagne flowed outside of the high-rise corner office of Wells Fargo Chief Executive Charlie Scharf on Tuesday after regulators lifted a yearslong penalty that restricted the bank’s growth. Cause for celebration: Things are about to change at Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank, without the Federal Reserve’s restriction that capped its assets at $2 trillion, a punishment for a scandal involving the creation of millions of fake customer accounts.
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1 month ago |
createsend.com | David Smagalla
Good morning. Large institutional investors who own shares in rival companies risk violating antitrust laws if they use their influence to affect how those businesses compete, U.S. antitrust enforcers argued Thursday for the first time.
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1 month ago |
createsend.com | David Smagalla
Good morning. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that Syria was potentially weeks away from a return to full-scale civil war, a scenario the U.S. was seeking to avert when it abruptly reversed course last week on easing sanctions on Damascus.
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1 month ago |
createsend.com | David Smagalla
Good morning. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s new chairman signaled Monday he is open to letting fund managers sell private-investment products to a broader swath of investors. The details: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said at an annual regulatory conference that he would direct the agency’s staff to reconsider guidance that inhibits how much closed-end funds can invest in private funds, such as hedge funds and private-equity funds.
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1 month ago |
createsend.com | David Smagalla
Good morning. After five months of guessing which types of corporate criminal cases President Trump’s Justice Department would push, white-collar defense lawyers have their answer, Risk Journal’s Max Fillion reports.
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In today's Morning Risk Report: The biggest ever sanctions have failed to halt Russia’s war machine, and the U.S. Justice Department hires first chief artificial intelligence officer https://t.co/DxsuasIwlH
My latest: Switzerland’s financial regulator has appointed European Central Bank executive Stefan Walter as its new head https://t.co/8nUszZRapN via @WSJRisk
My latest: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China will pay about $32 million to resolve investigations into alleged compliance problems at the bank’s New York branch https://t.co/9o1g8xgsoJ via @WSJRisk