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...delay a trip you've already booked, what are your options? Right now, if you're holding tickets for any destination other than Mexico, you'll pay the usual penalties for changing or canceling your flight. For those who would be Mexico-bound, however, most airlines are waiving change fees - but not always refunding money. Continental, which has cut capacity to Mexico by 50%, is allowing passengers to postpone trips to Mexico without penalty for all flights departing the U.S. through May 15. Delta will let you trade in your tickets to Mexico for another destination altogether without a change...
Many hotels in Mexico are accommodating last-minute cancellations without penalty. Iberostar Hotels & Resorts is allowing guests to trade upcoming stays in Mexico for stays at other properties in Jamaica or the Dominican Republic with no change fee, and is not charging guests who elect to leave Mexico early. The InterContinental Hotels Group, which operates the InterContinental in Cancun and the Crowne Plaza in Acapulco, among other properties, is offering to waive cancellation fees for reservations at any of its Mexican properties through...
...happened three times in the past 15 years), margins are squeezed. But another big factor has been the rise of nonbank competitors. The barely regulated shadow-banking system of securitization, investment banks and hedge funds took lots of business away from banks. Banks responded by relying more on fee income to pay the bills, getting in on shadow banking themselves and offering easier terms on loans - the latter two with sometimes disastrous results...
When asked about these companies’ current locations, University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment. He also would not elaborate on whether Harvard continues to have special reduced-fee arrangements with external investment managers, writing only in an e-mailed statement that Rose’s complaints were “the subject of a thorough review by an external expert” that ultimately concluded they were “without merit...
...While proposed solutions help fix conflicts of interest, more inevitably arise. A simple alternative would be to return to the “investor-paid” model that rating agencies followed pre-1968, when S&P began charging issuers for ratings, in addition to the subscription fee they had always collected from investors who used the ratings. Yet, as many firms argue—both in 1968 and in recent months, when the model has again been proposed as a viable solution—relying solely on a subscription service does not bring in enough revenue to allow rating...