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TRADING

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 7, 2014
Rogue trader: most illicit deals unnoticed
Less than 5 percent of unauthorized financial trading cases may be getting reported, said Toshihide Iguchi, whose trading losses led to the 1995 shutdown of Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc.'s U.S. operations.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 19, 2013
Confidant of hedge-fund billionaire Cohen found guilty of insider trading
A top lieutenant to billionaire Steven A. Cohen was convicted of insider trading Wednesday in a verdict that could strengthen the government's outstanding cases involving the storied hedge fund Cohen created two decades ago.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 16, 2013
Broker SBI upgrades with eye on high-frequency future
SBI Securities Co., Japan's largest online broker, has upgraded its technology in anticipation of faster trading speeds in the world's second-biggest equity market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 3, 2013
FSA ends insider probe; Nomura targets tipsters
Nomura Holdings Inc. said employees who leaked insider information on client transactions three years ago will be punished as the regulator signals an end to a crackdown that roiled the nation's largest brokerage last year.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2013
Best, brightest and least productive?
Financial traders and speculators help to allocate society's resources to the most promising businesses. But these people's activities also impose costs on the rest of us.
BUSINESS
Jul 8, 2013
Mergers at nine-year low amid yen volatility
Japanese companies made fewer acquisitions during the calendar first half than they have in a decade as buying interest was cooled by the yen's volatility.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 28, 2013
METI vet fined ¥11 million for Elpida trades
The Tokyo District Court on Friday handed down a suspended 18-month prison sentence and an ¥11 million fine to a former veteran trade ministry official for insider trading in the 2009 state-led bailout of Elpida Memory Inc.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 20, 2013
What the Bloomberg terminal scandal reveals about the media and its money-making ways
The chatter across the world of financial journalism over the last few days has been the story of Bloomberg reporters accessing information about subscribers of the firm's financial data service that those customers thought should remain secret. The episode contains some important lessons for how the...
EDITORIALS
Feb 9, 2007
China's courtship of Africa
Chinese President Hu Jintao is near the end of an eight-nation tour of Africa, which has renewed anxieties associated with "China's rise." Yes, the trip is proof of Beijing's expanding interests and its global reach. And yes, China's readiness to ignore misbehavior by its African friends and trade partners...

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