April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Canada will tighten regulations to force more disclosure by financial institutions and push for a nationwide securities regulator after record writedowns by the country's biggest banks, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said.

April 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. municipal borrowers from New York to Los Angeles pushed down yields on auction-rate bonds to the lowest since February by moving to eliminate $55.3 billion, or 33 percent, of the debt they had in the market.

Under the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rescue plan, some Congressional oversight of the lenders would shift to a new regulator. Some say the plan doesn?t go far enough.

Wachovia, like Washington Mutual Inc., which was seized by the federal government last week, was a big originator of option adjustable-rate mortgages, which offer very low introductory payments and let borrowers defer some interest.

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson put the weight of the federal government behind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the beleaguered companies that buy or finance almost half of the $12 trillion of U.S. mortgages.