Dean Starkman
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Frequently asked questions about the Pandora Papers and ICIJ
Will ICIJ publish the Pandora Papers data? What's the difference between Pandora and Panama Papers? We answer some of the most frequently-asked questions about our investigation. → Read More
About the FinCEN Files investigation
By Fergus Shiel and Dean Starkman Drawing on a cache of secret financial intelligence reports, the global investigation by more than 400 journalists reveals how banks continue to move dirty money for drug cartels, corrupt regimes, arms traffickers and other international criminals — and how a broken U.S.-led enforcement system perpetuates business as usual. Obtained and shared by […] → Read More
About the FinCEN Files investigation
An ICIJ investigation reveals the role of global banks in industrial-scale money laundering — and the bloodshed and suffering that flow in its wake. → Read More
Venture capital funding for start-ups is down sharply in 2015
The venture capital sector is heading back to Earth. The big question for the new year is how bumpy its landing might be. → Read More
Power Problem
The business press did everything but take on the institutions that brought down the financial system → Read More
Stock markets show resilience despite Paris attacks, other geopolitical risks
Stock markets have been largely uneventful this year, save for the huge drops in August, and they showed through last week's terrorist attacks in Paris a remarkable characteristic: resilience. → Read More
As bitcoin's value surges, backers say the currency may soon go mainstream
NEW YORK — Long off the public radar, digital payment network bitcoin has been gaining momentum this fall, bolstering the views of some advocates that bitcoins will be a mainstream currency worldwide in the not-too-distant future. → Read More
CalPERS set to divest from thermal-coal companies
The CalPERS Investment Committee will have a new task at its regular meeting Monday along with its main job of trying to boost flagging investment returns: dumping its coal holdings. → Read More
CalPERS set to divest from thermal-coal companies
The CalPERS Investment Committee will have a new task at its regular meeting Monday along with its main job of trying to boost flagging investment returns: dumping its coal holdings. → Read More
Bill Gross' lawsuit tells of "lust for power, greed" at Pimco
Lust for power. Corporate backstabbing. Unethical behavior. → Read More
Bankruptcy judge backs Relativity Media plan to sell TV assets to creditors
A bankruptcy judge Monday gave preliminary approval to a plan to sell the television assets of Relativity Media to a group of secured creditors while the company's flamboyant founder, Ryan Kavanaugh, tries to reorganize the rest of Relativity. → Read More
Distrust of Chinese economic data stokes fear on Wall Street
In China, the official unemployment rate for years has invariably stayed below 5%, or around 10 million people, no matter what — even after the catastrophic 2008 financial crisis that sent jobless rates soaring elsewhere. → Read More
Pension fund CalSTRS weighs shift to safety
The California State Teachers' Retirement System, the nation's second-largest public pension system, is considering a new strategy that would shift up to 12% of its $191-billion portfolio into safer investments, such as long-term Treasury bonds. → Read More
U.S. stocks plummet; Dow sinks below correction threshold
U.S. stocks plunged Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping nearly 3%, or about 470 points. → Read More
Global fraud involved computer hacking, insider trading, officials say
As told by federal authorities, it was the ultimate cyber-era criminal mash-up: an elaborate computer hacking operation to enable a global and lucrative insider trading scheme. In one of the most sweeping cases yet involving securities fraud and computer crime, prosecutors and the Securities Exchange Commission unveiled what they said was a long-running scheme to profit from yet-to-be-released… → Read More
SEC says hacked news releases were used to make illegal trades
An international network of hackers gained access to computer systems of business-newswire services to pull inside information from pending merger announcements, netting more than $100 million in illicit profits, according to federal indictments and a civil complaint unveiled Tuesday morning. → Read More
CEO pay-ratio rule likely to heat up debate on income inequality
The pay gap between workers and the boss is about to get a bit more obvious. The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to require public companies to disclose the pay difference between the chief executive and the average worker — a controversial measure that is sure to stoke an already heated debate about income inequality in the broader economy. The commission voted 3 to 2 along… → Read More
Pearson sells the Financial Times to Nikkei Inc. for $1.3 billion
Pearson PLC said it sold the unit that includes the Financial Times , one of the marquee names in English-language financial journalism, to Nikkei Inc. for $1.3 billion in cash. → Read More
NYSE: Trading halt wasn't caused by cyberattack
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was temporarily halted Wednesday in response to an apparent technical issue. → Read More
New York Stock Exchange halts trading after technical issue
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was temporarily halted Wednesday in response to an apparent technical issue. → Read More