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NEW YORK TIMES U.S. Said to Push for Criminial Charges for R.B.S. | The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. authorities are pushing for a settlement of interest -rate-rigging allegations with Royal Bank of Scotland Group P.L.C. that would result in a unit of the big British bank pleading guilty to criminal charges in addition to paying a penalty, according to people briefed on the negotiations".
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.
News that brokerage firms had reached a settlement on conflict-of-interest charges and that the Senate Republican leader, Trent Lott, had resigned his leadership post added to the good mood.
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.
Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, negotiated with Mr. Prince during talks that resulted in Citigroup's paying $400 million in fines and penalties as part of the global settlement over analysts' conflicts of interest.
But the two parties could not reach a settlement on the conflicts of interest that Mr. Spitzer said he found in the firm's research department during a 10-month investigation.
Data was analyzed using Stata to measure differences in proportions (chi-square) and differences in means (t-test) between gender, age groups, and settlement location for variables of interest.
In January 1957 the Lord Chancellor asked the Law Reform Committee "to consider whether any alteration is desirable in the powers of the court to sanction a variation in the trusts of a settlement in the interests of beneficiaries under disability and unborn persons, with particular reference to the decision in Chapman v. Chapman", and a report was presented to Parliament in November of that year.
"As they talk settlement in North Carolina, that becomes of interest to us, because we want to make sure that whatever settlement they work out is not of adverse interest to us," he said.
Meyer Glitzenstein and Crystal, the law firm that represented the animal rights groups said in a statement that it, "believes that it would have successfully defeated the RICO case" but agreed to the settlement in the interest of finally ending the drawn-out case.
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The phrase "settlement of interest" functions primarily as a noun phrase, referring to the act or outcome of resolving a particular interest, claim, or dispute. According to Ludwig AI, the phrase is usable and correct in written English.
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