Sentence examples for regulators sanctioned from inspiring English sources

All four were incorporated through Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL), a British Virgin Islands-based offshore services firm that the islands' financial regulators sanctioned for violating anti-money-laundering rules.

Federal regulators sanctioned use of such plans in 2000 as a way for executives to engage in regular sales of stock without being accused of making trades based on inside information.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street's self-regulator, sanctioned the firm for requiring former highly paid brokers to settle disputes over "retention bonuses" in New York State court.

The role of Japanese operations came to the forefront last December when the country's regulator sanctioned both UBS and Citigroup.

This was about the same time as the Japanese regulator sanctioned the firm following a probe into alleged manipulation of the yen-based interest rates.

A legal opinion previously commissioned by newspaper publishers stated that the provisions to punish newspapers with "exemplary" damages if they refuse to join a new regulator sanctioned under the royal charter were incompatible with the ECHR.

The regulator sanctioned a deal under which the PPF will assume the pension-fund debt and will take an equity stake in the new company, worth up to a third of it.Defending his decision, David Norgrove, chairman of the Pensions Regulator, told The Economist that Heath Lambert's pension liabilities were going to land in the lap of the PPF one way or another.

The regulator sanctioned the plant's operator, Omaha Public Power District, for having what it deemed to be inadequate flood protections, and forced improvements.

While regulators have sanctioned about 10 firms for misusing customer money over the last 15 years, records show, scores more have gone unpunished because regulators deemed their violations accidental, people briefed on the cases said.

Just last week, state and federal banking regulators formally sanctioned the Bank of New York for "deficiencies" in its anti-money-laundering practices, according to an agreement signed by the bank.

Though rare, insurance regulators have sanctioned such breakups when cataclysmic losses in one segment of a company threatened to overwhelm other healthier divisions.