The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced the fiscal year 2011 fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities.
Markets: who has rights to use credit rating data?
ASIC is seeking public comment on whether to withdraw current class order relief that allows issuers of investment products to cite credit ratings in disclosure documents without the consent of credit rating agencies.
Australia: regulator prosecutes man for managing company whilst disqualified
Under Australian company law, Individuals who are convicted of a fraud or dishonesty offence for which they may be sentenced to imprisonment for at least three months are automatically disqualified from managing corporations for five years.
Doing business in..: Internet search engines are not "publishers"
A decision in the English High Court says that Google search engines - and therefore by extension other such services - do not "publish" for the purposes of defamation proceedings. Nigel Morris-Cotterill examines the judgment.
Malaysia's new PM starts fair ownership plans
Malaysia's New Prime Minister has announced that 27 business sectors in the service industry will be released from the requirement for 30% of a company's shareholding to be placed in the hands of the Bumiputra, a group largely made up of Muslim...
Doing business in....
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