{"id":44298,"date":"2014-10-01T07:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44298"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:09:23","slug":"sec-grants-citigroup-waivers-easing-hedge-fund-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/sec-grants-citigroup-waivers-easing-hedge-fund-curbs.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Grants Citigroup Waivers, Easing Hedge-Fund Curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211;  Citigroup Inc. C -0.44%  is no longer a &#8220;bad actor&#8221; in the eyes of U.S. securities regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission quietly granted the bank waivers on restrictions that crimped a range of its activities, including selling investments in hedge funds to individuals, following a recent securities-fraud settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC, which in August completed a $285 million settlement with Citigroup over allegations related to complex debt instruments, granted the waivers late Friday, according to notices on its website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><a href=\" Citigroup Inc. C -0.44%  is no longer a \"bad actor\" in the eyes of U.S. securities regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission quietly granted the bank waivers on restrictions that crimped a range of its activities, including selling investments in hedge funds to individuals, following a recent securities-fraud settlement.  The SEC, which in August completed a $285 million settlement with Citigroup over allegations related to complex debt instruments, granted the waivers late Friday, according to notices on its website.\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Citigroup Inc. C -0.44% is no longer a &#8220;bad actor&#8221; in the eyes of U.S. securities regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission quietly granted the bank waivers on restrictions that crimped a range of its activities, including selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44300,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298\/revisions\/44300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}