Aaron Lucchetti

J.P. Morgan owns part of the voters

blogs.wsj.com — J.P. Morgan's much-anticipated shareholder meeting on Tuesday saw CEO James Dimon win a vote to hang on to his dual role of chairman and chief executive. A handful of institutional investors are thought to have swung the vote in Dimon's favor. So far, most major institutional shareholders have declined to say how they voted.

Regulatory Move Inhibits Bank Deals

online.wsj.com — A move by regulators that put the biggest bank merger of 2012 on ice is sending a chill through midsize financial institutions.

Ex-Senate Aide Is Vetted to Lead CFTC

online.wsj.com — Former top Senate aide Amanda Renteria is being vetted to succeed Gary Gensler as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

SAC Executives Subpoenaed - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com — Three senior executives at SAC Capital Advisors have received subpoenas as part of an insider-trading probe into the hedge-fund firm.

Jack Lew: In ETFs He Trusts?

bloomberg.com — Jack Lew isn't your average baby boomer. There's that Treasury Secretary thing, for starters. What may be even more impressive than his resume, though, is his portfolio of low cost, index-tracking exchange-traded funds. Unlike the vast majority of baby boomers, who don't use ETFs at all, Lew is saving himself thousands of dollars per year in fees and beating a solid two-thirds of active mutual fund managers.

Goldman Sachs Research Disputes ‘Too Big to Fail’ Bank Subsidy

bloomberg.com — Bond investors don't perceive the six biggest U.S. banks as "too big to fail," according to a report from one of those lenders, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The half-dozen largest U.S. banks by assets have had an average funding-cost advantage over smaller competitors of 0.31 percentage point since 1999, according to the report from the New York-based firm.

Penalty for Brokerage Firms

online.wsj.com — The settlement with Massachusetts will make LPL Financial and five other brokerages reimburse investors over REIT sales.

Massachusetts reaches $9.6 mln REIT settlement with 5 broker-dealers

newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com — By Ross Kerber BOSTON (Reuters) - Five independent broker-dealers will pay at least $9.6 million in fines and restitution to settle what Massachusetts' top securities regulator has called their improper sales of non-traded real estate investment trusts, or REITs.

J.P. Morgan Redeploys Staff

online.wsj.com — Hundreds of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. employees have been redeployed to help the bank resolve its mounting regulatory trouble.