Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Financial Reform Newsletter April 3, 2014 Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street. A funny thing happened on the way to preventing another financial crash and more wall street bailouts.  It’s called the rulemaking process, which is required to implement much of the financial reform law …

Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society Share on email Back in January 2012, I crashed the annual induction ceremony of Kappa Beta Phi, a secret society for elite financiers. You can read the story of what happened here. In addition to writing down details of what I …

Calvert Foundation: CEO Transition, Fall Conferences, and Detroit

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Ethical Markets  congratulates Lisa Hall  in her new career move and  welcomes Jennifer Pryce as Calvert Foundation’s new CEO !   Hazel Henderson , Editor   and former member  of the Advisory Council  at Calvert Group. It’s a win-win. Earn a financial return and support communities. Empowering Investors to Empower Communities SEPTEMBER …

YOUNG’S CHINA BUSINESS BLOG:Canadian Solar Gets State Financing

Jay OwenGreentech

   YOUNG’S CHINA BUSINESS BLOG                                                    DAILY NEWSLETTER                                                       June 4, 2013 Lenovo Raises Funds, IBM Servers In Sight? PC giant Lenovo (HKEx: 992) has announced plans for a major new bond issue, in the latest signal that it still hopes to revive stalled talks to buy IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) low-end server …

The JPMorgan Trade: Time for a Special Counsel

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance

Better Markets sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder, calling for the appointment of a special counsel in connection with the multibillion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co. What’s at stake is very important, and goes to the heart of whether Americans still have faith that the judicial …

Naming Culprits in the Financial Crisis

kristyReforming Global Finance

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14crisis.html?_r=1 Major progress from the US Senate! The bits about both Deutsche Bank and Goldman will especially bear on the issue of derivatives regulation, as will also the bit about AIG, and both will support the “z” factor relating to collected “securitized derivatives” in the dsFCF smart FTT proposal. Note …