Former New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg has been named CEO of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, while former Rep. Ken Bentsen will become president.

Citigroup’s mortgage unit CEO Sanjiv Das will be replaced by private bank head Jane Fraser.

Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford said he does not believe corporate governance in Japan has changed in the last two years.

Advisory votes on “golden parachutes” are not required until just prior to investors approving a takeover.

Del. Andrew A. Serafini introduced or co-sponsored four failed measures to reduce Maryland’s corporate income tax this year, sparking conversations on the topic.

Executives pledging stock as collateral for loans are gaining attention, with 107 companies mentioning the term “pledging policy” in proxy statements in 2013, up from eight in 2012.

The amount of business loans made by U.S. banks rose to $1.55 trillion at the beginning of this month, a 10 percent increase over one year prior.

Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion.

A growing number of mutual funds are supporting activist investors’ efforts to use incentive pay packages for directors they nominate in proxy fights.

Apple paid no corporate income tax to any national government on tens of billions of dollars in overseas income in the past four years, a Senate panel disclosed hours before CEO Tim Cook is expected to testify before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures are down in light trading ahead of an appearance this week by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke before Congress.

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By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone will reinvest a $3.2 billion dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to counter weakness in southern Europe that contributed to the largest ever quarterly fall in the group's main revenue measu…

Former U.S. Bancorp Vice Chairman and Head of Consumer and Small Business Banking Richard C. Hartnack joined the Freddie Mac board of directors. Blue Nile added Mindy Meads, former co-CEO of Aeropostale, to the board of directors.

J.P. Morgan is preparing for a shake-up of its board even if every director wins re-election at Tuesday’s shareholder meeting and James Dimon keeps his dual job as chairman and chief executive.

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Mike Jeffries, The CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, whose resurrected 2006 comments about the teen chain’s exclusive courtship of “cool, good-looking” kids sparked a firestorm of objections and protests this month, might just be changing his ways.

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) – Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish Network Corp, as pressure mounts on SoftBank to sweeten its offer for the No. 3 U.S….

Doug Lawler, the Anadarko Petroleum executive picked to be Chesapeake Energy’s second-ever CEO, was hired after Chesapeake shifted strategy in its search to replace Aubrey McClendon.