The Securities and Exchange Commission has made its third largest award ever to an informant who revealed securities violations at the company they worked for. 

The Obama administration's moves to clamp down on tax avoidance could be frustrated by a divided Congress

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency was banks over 'frothy' apartment markets in four major US cities

Industry welcomes moves by the European Securities and Markets Authority to reconsider new rules on pre- and post-trade reporting requirements 

China studies UK model as it considers whether to create its own financial super-regulator

Senior Bank of England official argues for global stress tests for clearing houses

Final version of rules sets leverage ratio at 5% for Switzerland's two leading banks

China considering a raft of schemes to deal with the growing non-performing loan problem

Regulators are attempting to tame the vast foreign exchange market with a new code of conduct

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) makes additions to its proposals to support genuine commodities hedging activity