Morgan Stanley

Streamlined Volcker Rule could encourage some banks to take bigger risks

09/23/19

The revised trading rule is seen as a credit negative for banking industry.

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Morgan Stanley to port documents of 1.3M clients to Box's cloud

07/22/19

It's one of the first wealth management firms to share documents with clients through Box.

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G7 warns on Libra; N.Y. Fed chief tells central banks to be bold

07/19/19

Finance ministers call for tight regulation of cybercurrencies; Williams says the Fed must “act quickly to lower rates at the first sign of economic distress.”

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Morgan Stanley fined; German giants regroup after merger fails

04/26/19

The bank agreed to pay $150 million to California to settle charges it hid the risks on the sale of mortgage bonds pre-crisis; foreign suitors circle Commerzbank while Deutsche Bank seeks answers.

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Big investors welcomed by Fed; Morgan Stanley shifts top woman executive

04/24/19

The Fed wants to make it easier for investors to own big stakes in banks without triggering oversight; Shelley O’Connor has been named head of the firm's two regulated bank entities.

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Moynihan's call for unity, CFPB payday revamp, Morgan Stanley's AI strategy: Top stories of the week

04/05/19

'There is no division in our industry': BofA's Moynihan says; why CFPB's payday revamp is an even bigger deal than you think; Morgan Stanley's new data strategy for higher quality AI; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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Morgan Stanley focuses on data quality to strengthen AI

04/01/19

The bank is one of many to realize that artificial intelligence is only as good as the data fed into it.

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Sloan out at Wells Fargo; Facebook charged with housing bias

03/29/19

The bank said it will look outside the company for a replacement; HUD alleges the social media giant allowed real estate firms to target groups in their advertising.

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Jury out on SOFR; Bowman advocates for community banks

02/12/19

The possible replacement for Libor's volatility raises concern about its viability; new Fed governor says community banks punished for crisis the did not cause.

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U.S. banks won $21 billion tax windfall then cut staff, lent less

02/06/19

Major U.S. banks shaved about $21 billion from their tax bills last year — almost double the IRS’s annual budget — as the industry benefited more than many others from the Republican tax overhaul.

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