BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Regulation
- the use of laws or rules stipulated by a government or regulatory body, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, to provide orderly procedures and to protect consumers and investors
Wiktionary Definition for: Regulation
- Of or pertaining to a regulation or rules.
- Ex:''The '''regulation''' rules of baseball.''
- A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- Ex:''Army '''regulations''' state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.''
Additional Resources
- FCC sets Internet regulation in motion
- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski(Credit: FCC)The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to get the ball rolling on creating regulation that will keep the Internet open.All five commissioners voted in favor of advancing the rule-making process for a proposal that was put forth by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski during the agency's...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Why Self-Regulation of the Financial System Won't Work
- I want to finish this up this Blog War by broadening the discussion beyond the regulation of hedge funds to how attitudes toward regulation in general have changed in recent years, and how that helped set the stage for the current crisis. In the process, I also want to take...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Why Most Market Regulation is Useless And/Or Harmful
- Justin, I think your half-way position represents conventional wisdom on financial regulation: we should do more, but no specific solution is obvious. You are setting yourself up to serve evil! As George Will writes, most regulation is championed by a confluence of Baptists and bootleggers, the first group with high...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Broadcast Regulation, Cable TV Regulation, FCC Equipment Regulation, Electronic Evidence Regulation, Privacy Law E-Mail Alert and Wireless Regulation. (Related News in brief).
- Pike & Fischer (Silver Spring, MD) is now offering free access to a new series of six e-zines and users may subscribe to as many as they like. The online ... Pike & Fischer (Silver Spring, MD) is now offering free access to a new series...
- Research articles 2002-06-30
- Why Too Much Regulation Increases Risk
- Mark Thoma makes the case for improving regulation by subjecting all financial companies, including those that are a part of the so-called "shadow banking" sector such as hedge funds and private equity firms, to the same regulatory framework applicable to the traditional banking sector. By contrast, I argued that the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Getting in Front of the Next Crisis Requires Broad-Based Regulation
- In his rebuttal to my suggestion that we need broad regulation applied to all financial institutions that implicitly or explicitly function as banks, Houman says that I seem to assume "that all members of the shadow banking system are equally risky." If I gave that impression, I...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Why We Need Smart Financial-System Regulation Now
- Houman makes a case against extending regulation to hedge funds by looking at what happened under the existing regulatory structure. But as we all know, past performance does not necessarily predict future behavior, particularly when the underlying regulatory structure changes and we can certainly expect chagnes in the future. So...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Banking Regulation Versus Securities Market Regulation
- The purpose of this paper is to consider the inter-relationship of bank regulation and securities regulation in order to consider whether a move away from a bank-based financial system towards a market-based system is desirable in terms of crisis prevention. It considers banking regulation while also focuses on the regulation...
- White papers 2001-07-11
- Managing Regulation in a New Era
- As concern over global problems mounts, executives and regulators have everything to gain from building relationships based on trust, and developing solutions that benefit a wide range of stakeholders. The 2008 financial crisis may come to be seen as the demarcation between two regulatory eras....
- Articles 2009-01-12
- Reconfiguring Environmental Regulation: The Future Public Policy Agenda
- Over the last decade, considerable thinking has gone into the issue of how to design more efficient and effective regulation. Much of this thinking has been in field of social regulation and that of environmental regulation in particular. While not all the innovations and insights that have emerged from a...
- White papers 2005-01-24
- Regulation FD in operation. (Investment Planning)
- SEC Commissioner Laura S. Unger has issued a report, "Regulation Fair Disclosure Revisited." The report analyzes the operation of Regulation FD Fair Disclosure, including comments made at a SEC roundtable on the regulation's operations. SEC Commissioner Laura S. Unger has issued a report, "Regulation...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Better service in Utah deflects regulation. (improved customer service programs help cable television industry's efforts to avoid regulation in Utah)
- Better Service In Utah Deflects Regulation Cable managers looking for new ways to wage the local public relations battle may want to review the latest chapter in the industry's struggle to avoid regulation in Utah. In...
- Research articles 1991-04-08
- More carrot, less stick: American regulation. (regulation of the securities industry)
- Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Chmn Arthur Levitt is opposed to new regulation of derivatives, preferring education over new laws. However, he is in favor of more regulation of mutual funds and stock brokerage firms, so that retail investors wilSecurities and Exchange Commission SEC Chmn Arthur Levitt is opposed to...
- Research articles 1994-05-28
- How Obama's Financial Regulation Is Shaping Up
- Â Just a week after his inauguration, Barack Obama's plans to regulate the financial industry are starting to take shape. Nothing definite has been put together yet and whatever does evolve must get through Congress and possibly hostile Republican opposition. But it is clear that an entirely new...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Sensing Coming Regulation, Online Ad Groups Unite
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Four groups representing ad networks, portals, publishers, internet-service providers, ad agencies and advertisers announced today they've joined forces in a bid to head off government regulation of online advertising. The groups involved -- the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers, the Direct...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Can More Regulation Ever Be Good For Business?
- Primary season is in full swing and newspapers this morning were emblazoned with headlines about yesterday's New Hampshire primary. Political pundits may have something to say about who among the candidates they prefer, but so too does the business community. Candidates of both parties have expressed fiery populist sentiments, bashing...
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Protect and Survive: Regulation of E-commerce in the Financial Services Industry
- This white paper explains that regulation of financial services in the Internet age is characterized by uncertainty. The PricewaterhouseCoopers report "Protect and Survive -Regulation of e- commerce in the Financial Services Industry", challenges regulators and the industry's view in this area. The report challenges the industry to develop their e-regulation...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- Bank Capital Regulation in Contemporary Banking Theory: A Review Of The Literature
- This paper reviews the theoretical literature on bank capital regulation and analyses some of the approaches to redesigning the 1988 Basle Accord on capital standards. The paper starts with a review of the literature on the design of the financial system and the existence of banks. It proceeds with a...
- White papers 2000-09-01
- Regulation G and Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Rules
- Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") issued Securities Act Release 33-8176 (Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-47226) that adopts final rules relating to the use of pro forma financial information by companies in earnings announcements and Commission filings. The new rules require companies to "furnish" their published annual...
- White papers 2003-07-10
