May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
Citigroup's mortgage unit CEO Sanjiv Das will be replaced by private bank head Jane Fraser.
May 21, 2013
Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford said he does not believe corporate governance in Japan has changed in the last two years.
May 21, 2013
Advisory votes on "golden parachutes" are not required until just prior to investors approving a takeover.
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion.
May 21, 2013
A growing number of mutual funds are supporting activist investors' efforts to use incentive pay packages for directors they nominate in proxy fights.
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
To understand Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, consider Yahoo's deal for GeoCities in 1999. | For technology deal makers, business is booming. | SAC Capital Advisors is bracing for another round of withdrawal requests. | Apple avoided bill...
May 21, 2013
By Dhanya Skariachan (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly results and raised its sales and profit outlook for the year as the world's largest home improvement chain benefited from a nascent recovery in the U.S. housin...
May 21, 2013
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...
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
By Sumeet Chatterjee and Harichandan Arakali MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - IT outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its chief executive, Phaneesh Murthy, for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of the ind...
May 21, 2013
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.
May 21, 2013
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....
May 20, 2013
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.
May 20, 2013
One downside of a deal to sell to Yahoo is that it creates an immediate taxable gain for Tumblr’s shareholders, the author writes.
