Seeking to rebuild its battered reputation, the Securities and Exchange Commission has hired a hedge fund insider to improve its examinations group in New York.

Another British hedge fund seems to be hedging its bets when it comes to impending tax increases in the U.K. and hedge fund regulation in Europe.

U.S. hedge funds aren’t the only ones facing a potential new registration requirement: Their peers in Singapore are also likely to lose their licensing exemption in Singapore, according to a top industry organization.

For some time now, hedge fund registration in the U.S. has been only a matter of time. Now, we have a better idea of just how much time.

The European Union’s much-criticized hedge fund regulation proposal is now drawing fire from two powerful places.

In response from a request from the Council of the EU, the European Central Bank warned that the current proposals for hedge fund and alternative investment regulation could drive the industries out of Europe altogether.

Citigroup hopes to sell its highly-profitable proprietary commodities trading group, in part to avoid a backlash at a firm that received billions in government bailout money paying its head a promised $100 million bonus.

Last year, three senior Church of England clerics warned that hedge fund managers were risking eternal damnation with their greed.

European lawmakers have struck upon a novel idea in their consideration of strict new rules governing hedge funds and private equity firms: They’d like to know something about what the proposal would do before they choose to enact it.

It’s been a foregone conclusion for some time now, but legislation requiring hedge fund managers and private equity firms to register with U.S. regulators has finally been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Hedge fund lobby the Managed Funds Association has elected a former assistant Treasury secretary and D.E. Shaw Group executive as its new chairman.