08/05/2014

The Hedge Fund Manager On The FBI’s Most Wanted List

Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm, a German hedge fund manager who was on the run for more than five years, is wanted by the FBI for his alleged involvement in a market manipulation scheme designed to artificially improve the performance of eight Cayman I

08/03/2014

US targets German bank over Zimbabwe diamond finances

The United States has placed a German financial institution under strict surveillance for clearing payments for Zimbabwe’s diamonds at the recent Dubai diamond tender, state media reported Sunday.

07/31/2014

Ex-UBS Banker Weil Seeks Video Testimony From Overseas

Former UBS AG banker Raoul Weil, accused of helping Americans evade taxes, may be allowed to call fellow bankers as witnesses to testify from overseas by video because they fear arrest if they travel to the U.S.

07/30/2014

Hedge Fund Prosecution Specialist Joins NY Law Firm

The Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and the prosecutor who took down Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, has joined NY law firm Ropes & Gray.

07/30/2014

'Deutsche Bank, Barclays to have monitors'

New York's banking regulator is seeking to place government monitors in the US offices of Deutsche Bank AG and Barclays Plc as part of its investigation into the foreign-exchange market, a person familiar with the matter said. The New York Departmen

07/29/2014

Ex-Harbinger COO settles SEC claims he aided fraud

The former chief operating officer of Philip Falcone's hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve charges he aided a scheme to misappropriate fund assets