By Jack J. Kelly   As an Executive Recruiter I am always asked about the current job market. In particular, since I specialize in the placement of Compliance, Legal, Risk, Audit, Anti-Money Laundering, and Regulatory professionals, job seekers are specifically concerned about the ...Read More

Bank regulators on Wednesday sent a message that big banks are still too big and too complex. They rejected special plans, called living wills, that the banks have to submit to show they can go through an orderly bankruptcy. The thinking behind the regulators’ ...Read More

For those of you that remember the ‘Titillating and Telling Tale of Ashley Madison” story we published last month, here’s some more bad news. For a quick refresher, the Ashley Madison site was designed to promote adulterous cheating, and while some of you thought having ...Read More

Regulation is always causing problems for banks – whether it’s directly or indirectly. This time, major banks and brokers have failed to make sufficient internal changes following the Libor and foreign exchange manipulation scandals.  In fact, The Financial Conduct Authority found that none of ...Read More

Banks have paid billions. Regulators and prosecutors have extracted guilty pleas from financial institutions. Dozens of employees have been fired, and at least one chief executive has lost his job. Now, on Tuesday, the first trader in the sprawling, half-decade-old investigation into the rigging ...Read More

South African regulators are investigating alleged foreign-currency market rigging for the first time in 13 years in a probe that will examine practices at banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. The Competition Commission suspects 11 companies of using electronic messaging software ...Read More

Rolling back regulations created after the 2008 crisis has been Job 1 for leaders of many of the nation’s large and powerful banking institutions. So it’s no surprise that recent proposals for regulatory reform in the financial industry have overwhelmingly been the work of ...Read More