State and federal regulators will meet with 10 of the largest securities firms on Thursday to propose limits on contact between analysts and bankers as one part of a settlement of conflict-of-interest investigations, Wall Street executives and regulators said.
Last year, a dozen of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms agreed to a $1.4 billion global settlement of conflicts of interest.
A "global settlement" of conflicts of interest problems in the securities industry, negotiated by the SEC and Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney-general, turned into a notably messy and chaotic business.
It leaves for later, for instance, the settlement of conflicting claims to Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed city that was subjected to a government-encouraged immigration of Arabs during Mr. Hussein's time.
These rules accumulated through an historical process of rationalisation of popular wisdom, playing an important role in the regulation of social life and the settlement of conflicts.
This paper is concerned with the historical and diachronic dimensions of a nowadays widespread discursive practice, i.e. the settlement of conflicts on the basis of reasonable arguments.
"We've made a big step forward along the road of political settlement of the conflict".
Many people believe he really does not want a political settlement of the conflict.
Only through a peaceful political settlement of the conflict, acceptable to all parties, can a possible resolution could be reached.
Only America, after all, had the power, they still believed, to impose a settlement of their conflict on Ariel Sharon.
This conduct may also constitute a violation of the 2003 global settlement of analyst conflict claims reached that allows the New York court supervising that settlement to impose sanctions.
