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A lot was made of the recent SEC move to eliminate the requirement that foreign companies reconcile their financial statements with the U.S.'s generally accepted accounting principles. That has paved Read more...

Tomas Jandik, associate professor of finance at the University of Arkansas, has looked at Sarbanes Oxley from a foreign company perspective and found that the law may be one factor boosting Read more...

We've noted before that there seems to be cultural differences when it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley. Europeans tended to have more negative views, while Read more...

A common European-U.S. accounting standard by 2009? That's the goal of the SEC, and chairman Chris Cox says it is feasible. We'll likely see a lot hand-wringing between now and then, especially on Read more...

> Michael Econn, a former analyst at Barclays, has charged that he was subject to unlawful retaliation when he blew the whistle on a big-time trader's inside trades. He is seeking damages under Read more...

The big-think debate about Sarbanes-Oxley just isn't going away. Many commentators still cite Sarbox as the Read more...

One of the unintended consequences of Sarbanes-Oxley has been the unexpected rise of a truly global stock exchange company. The best example of this so far is the New York Stock Exchange. The new Read more...

There's been a lot of hand-wringing over the competitiveness of U.S. markets lately. The conventional wisdom is that Sarbanes-Oxley has made the U.S. a much less attractive place for foreign Read more...

A lot has been made recently of how much the U.S. financial markets are suffering due to Sarbanes-Oxley and the relative advantages the law has given Europe. Well, guess what? A new European Union Read more...

You night have been tempted to think the "twilight of New York as a financial center" story was a fleeting one. But the city has done a good job keeping it in the news. The latest: Senator Charles Read more...