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Combating financial crime - KPMG

3 focus areas for banks to achieve more effective and efficient customer due diligence

What you need to know about the mammoth EU-Mercosur trade pact

EU representatives made their motives clear in statements immediately following the negotiations.

Dickinson Wright Receives Top Rankings

Five Dickinson Wright attorneys are listed as "Leaders in their Fields"

Madoff Investor Kingate to Pay Back $860 Million

Settlement wraps up one of the largest remaining disputes in liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme

Payoffs, glory-seeking Feds, and hiding in plain sight — here's what 5 experts told us about the $1 billion cocaine bust on a ship owned by JPMorgan

The drugs are worth way less than $1 billion

Former REIT Manager and Executives to Settle SEC Charges for More Than $60 Million

The SEC alleges that AR Capital, Schorsch, and Block, acting in breach of the relevant proxy disclosures, inflated an incentive fee in both mergers

Nomura to Pay Misled Bond Customers $25 Million to Settle SEC Charges

The SEC’s orders further find that Nomura lacked compliance and surveillance procedures that were reasonably designed to prevent and detect this misconduct, which inflated the firm’s profits on CMBS and RMBS transactions at its customers&r

Is blue sky compliance like the SEC or the IRS?

The states were allowed to require a notice filing, which means you are not actually registering, but giving notice of intent to sell in the state.

IRS Crime Unit Marks 100 Years Of Following The Money And Tackling Crime

Charged with pursuing tax crimes, one of those first agents, Elmer L. Irey, would lead the new crime fighting unit and change history.

Neal Gerber Eisenberg Private Wealth Practice Group and Three Attorneys Ranked in the Chambers High Net Worth 2019 Edition

Chambers & Partners, one of the world’s leading legal directories, conducts independent research that relies on feedback from industry leaders and clients to identify the top attorneys and law firms from around the world.

Merrill Lynch fined W175 mil. for high-frequency trading

The securities firm used algorithm-based trading through direct market access.

Wells Fargo tempers cost-cutting outlook

“We’ve seen a greater need for us to make investments in terms of risks, compliance and audit, all those things that we’re going to need to make investments in, in order to satisfy the requirements of our regulators,” said Interim

Chambers High Net Worth Guide Recognizes Katten's Trusts and Estates Practice

Katten also was commended for the outstanding legal services it provides in Private Wealth Disputes in New York.

These recent data breaches generated huge fines, so here’s why your data processing agreements need to be watertight

The final amount of the fines may well be decreased in court.

House committee OKs multiemployer pension reform bill

Also known as the Butch Lewis Act, the bill would establish the Pension Rehabilitation Administration and a related trust fund within the Treasury Department

U.S. proposes barring big tech companies from offering financial services, digital currencies

Even if it were to pass the full house, it would still have to pass the senate which would also likely be an uphill struggle.

Ex-BH Stockbroker Convicted in $200 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme

Prosecutors allege that Ficeto, Homm and the other co-conspirators “fraudulently manipulated the penny stocks to inflate and artificially prop up their prices to exaggerate the purported profitability of the Absolute Capital hedge funds.

Jeffrey Epstein: Paedophile financier offers private jet and mansion to avoid pre-trial jail

Prosecutors say 66-year-old is 'extraordinary' flight risk

DLA Piper advises IMF Bentham on new USD500 million fund

Fund 5 has been established as a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership, with IMF Bentham and its related entities providing investment management and advisory services.

Societe Generale sued for $792 million by heirs of Cuban bank seized by Castro

The lawsuit was filed eight months after Societe Generale agreed to pay $1.34 billion

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