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UPDATE 2-Japan watchdog: BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade
Forbes | 38 days 15 hours 53 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Japan's securities watchdog said it recommended disciplinary action against BNP Paribas for stock trade manipulation and for failing to report fully to financial regulators about a convertible bond trade.

Japan regulator investigates BNP Paribas - newspaper
Forbes | 39 days 20 hours 57 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Japan's securities regulator is probing allegations of market manipulation in share trading by BNP Paribas, the Asahi newspaper reported, in what would be another regulatory issue for the French bank following a controversial deal last year with a failed property developer.

Japan watchdog: BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade
Forbes | 38 days 16 hours 44 minutes ago
* Recommends punishment for stock trade manipulation * Says gave inadequate report on Urban to FSAArticle Controlsemail

UPDATE 1-Japan watchdog to halt some BNP Paribas ops -Nikkei
Forbes | 31 days 19 hours 31 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator will order a brokerage unit of French bank BNP Paribas on Friday to suspend its stock derivative operations for two weeks, the Nikkei business daily said.

UPDATE 3-Japan watchdog: BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade
Forbes | 38 days 14 hours 33 minutes ago
By Junko Fujita and Mayumi Negishi TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Japan's securities watchdog had recommended a local unit of BNP Paribas ( BNPQY.PK - news - people ) be punished for manipulating stock prices and submitting a report with some untruthful elements about a controversial financing deal.

UPDATE 2-Japan regulator suspends BNP Paribas unit 2 weeks
Forbes | 31 days 15 hours 49 minutes ago
By David Dolan TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator ordered a unit of French bank BNP Paribas ( BNPQY.PK - news - people ) to halt its equities and commodities derivatives business for two weeks for trying to manipulate a share price and providing inaccurate information about a controversial bond deal.

UPDATE 4-BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade-Japan watchdog
Forbes | 38 days 12 hours 28 minutes ago
By Junko Fujita and Mayumi Negishi TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A BNP Paribas ( BNPQY.PK - news - people ) unit submitted a report that contained false information on a controversial financial deal and one of its traders manipulated stock prices, and both should face discipline, Japan's securities watchdog said on Friday.

Analysts wary ahead of Japanese telecom results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 23 hours 45 minutes ago
"We expect SoftBank to be the only leading telecom carrier to report Q2 profit growth," Ikuo Matsuhashi, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a note to clients issued Friday. SoftBank plans to release its second-quarter results on Oct. 29.

UPDATE 3-Japan regulator suspends BNP Paribas unit 2 weeks
Forbes | 31 days 13 hours 44 minutes ago
By David Dolan and Nathan Layne TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator ordered a unit of French bank BNP Paribas ( BNPQY.PK - news - people ) to halt some of its business for two weeks as punishment for stock price fixing and providing inaccurate information about a bond deal.

How Proposals to End Too-Big-to Fail Trouble Would Work in Practice
Wall Street Journal, The | 27 days 23 hours 48 minutes ago
Can you break up a complex bank like Barclays PLC which does everything from mortgages to mezzanine finance, and stock offerings to swaps via helping pay your phone bill? Bank of England governor Mervyn King is suggesting banks may be broken to ensure no bank is too big to fail.

Softbank July-Sep Group Net Profit Y43.37B Vs Y21.8B Profit Year Earlier
Wall Street Journal, The | 25 days 19 hours 57 minutes ago
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Softbank Corp. (9984.TO) said Thursday its net profit for the July-September quarter nearly doubled from a year earlier thanks to its strong core mobile phone business, which helped eliminate cumulative losses carried for the past seven years.

KDDI quarterly profit falls 25%
Japan Times, The | 31 days 3 hours 11 minutes ago
KDDI Corp., Japan's second-biggest mobile-phone operator, said second-quarter profit fell 25 percent because of higher promotion costs and losses in the fixed-line business. Net income declined to 58.9 billion in the three months that ended Sept. 30, from 78.7 billion a year earlier, the Tokyo-based carrier said Friday. KDDI maintained its full year profit and sales forecasts. The carrier, which lagged behind rival NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Softbank Corp. in net user additions for the ...

Softbank leads in new user signups for 3rd month
Forbes | 14 days 21 hours 42 minutes ago
TOKYO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp, Japan's No.3 wireless carrier, outran its bigger rivals for the third straight month in October in the number of net new users it signed up thanks to demand for Apple Inc's iPhone.

Light Reading Asia - Optical Networking - UTStarcom Wins at Softbank - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 20 days 11 hours 56 minutes ago
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- UTStarcom, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI) announced that SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. a wholly owned subsidiary of SOFTBANK Corp., will be the first customer to commercially deploy its NetRing(TM) Transport Network product portfolio (NetRing(TM) TN). NetRing(TM) TN includes new multiprotocol label switching - transport profile (MPLS-TP) solutions designed to overhaul existing mobile backhaul networks, provide Ethernet services and deliver broadband aggregation applications.