06/02/2014
Investors, including the city of Philadelphia and a number of hedge funds and pension funds, accused the banks of conspiring since January 2003 to manipulate the WM/Reuters Closing Spot Rates, using chat rooms, instant messages and email.
06/02/2014
FATCA will apply to foreign entities
06/02/2014
Hedge fund manager Nelson Obus was cleared of insider-trading allegations on Friday, ending a decade-long legal battle.
06/02/2014
The CFO of a company that claimed to be "one of the world's largest private investment firms" aided and abetted a $7.4 million scam in a fund that he knew "did not exist,"
05/30/2014
The SEC alleges that Goyal told investors that the private funds he managed would invest in securities following a "long-short" trading strategy.
05/30/2014
BNP Paribas is facing a potential $10bn fine from the US Justice Department to resolve a criminal probe into allegations it evaded US sanctions against Iran
05/29/2014
The unlawful actions by HPM and the employee defendants could best be described as an economic coup d’etat, which seeks to obtain DB’s critical client base as its spoils.
05/28/2014
Lack is among about three dozen foreign bankers, lawyers and advisers who have been charged since 2009
05/28/2014
These companies allegedly violated anti-money laundering laws by failing to identify the true beneficial owners of their accounts.
05/28/2014
Fabrice Tourre, a former Goldman Sachs trader, misled investors on the sale of mortgage-linked securities
05/28/2014
Arab Bank said the judge’s ruling was forcing it to choose between running afoul of the U.S. court and violating bank secrecy laws in Lebanon, Jordan and other countries.
05/28/2014
An astonishing 89% of investors polled by Intralinks and Opalesque have declined to put money with at least one hedge fund due to transparency concerns.
05/26/2014
A lawsuit filed on Friday alleges that Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, the London Metal Exchange and metal warehouse operators have conspired since 2010 to manipulate the price of zinc in the United States.
05/23/2014
Seasoned Government lawyer joins leading global law firm
He joins from the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York (EDNY), where he was a Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section.
05/23/2014
Shares at the bank are down 4% this week and may fall more
05/23/2014
The four Cohens and Topal agreed to settle the SEC’s charges by paying a total of more than $500,000
05/22/2014
U.S. regulators are investigating Charles Schwab Corp. and Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch brokerage over whether they are doing enough to learn about their clients' identities.
05/21/2014
U.S. authorities are seeking more than $5 billion from BNP Paribas SA to settle federal and state investigations into the lender’s dealings with sanctioned countries including Sudan and Iran
05/21/2014
Top financial regulators are considering adding large mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity firms to the list of institutions that are officially “too big to fail,” and some of those money managers pushed pack this week.
05/20/2014
FSOC meeting to explore the activities and potential risks in the asset management industry