11/20/2013
Ex-Merrill Broker Suspended, Fined for Anti-money Laundering Violations
A former Merrill Lynch broker who managed as much as $1 billion has been suspended and fined by Wall Street's watchdog
11/19/2013
The bank acknowledged it made serious misrepresentations to the public including the investing public.
11/18/2013
It is notable how many of the recent CFTC announcements have been essentially “tidying-up” exercises, the implication perhaps being that the substantive elements of Dodd-Frank are all in place.
11/17/2013
The last 12 months has been another year of change for the financial services industry. We have begun the move from inter- and intranational debate about the shape and purpose of regulation, to a period of understanding the implications for business follo
11/17/2013
The hearing began two years after Bank of America reached the settlement to resolve claims over mortgages packaged into securities.
11/17/2013
US judge orders MF Global to pay $1.2bn in restitution to customers and imposes $100m fine
11/17/2013
The foreign exchange trading investigation is the latest multinational probe of financial benchmarks that affect trillions of dollars in personal and business transactions.
11/14/2013
A former JPMorgan Chase executive accused of helping to hide trading losses in a $6.2 billion financial scandal at the bank rejected on Friday
11/14/2013
The settlement is with 21 major institutional investors.
11/14/2013
The Pulse of the Profession: Defining Our Role in a Changing Landscape survey is a semiannual assessment of the state of the internal audit profession in North America.
11/12/2013
A Kentucky circuit court judge has ruled that Grant Thornton is liable for more than $100 million in damages to be paid to a business owner and his family after he was sold an offshore tax shelter that the Internal Revenue Service considered abusive.
11/10/2013
The US Department of Justice has quizzed BNP Paribas executives as part of an investigation into the potential manipulation of the $5.3 tril-a-day currency market
11/10/2013
The collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds in 2007 was among the earliest signs of the impending financial crisis.
11/09/2013
Salaries for banks’ risk and compliance officers in Singapore and Hong Kong rose at about twice the pace of pay for similar positions at New York and London firms amid a shortage of skilled staff members
11/08/2013
It was a sick reality show, and they didn’t audition for it
11/07/2013
Associate promotions cover diverse markets and practice areas
11/07/2013
Three former ICAP Plc brokers charged in the U.S. over their involvement in Libor-rigging will be interviewed by U.K. prosecutors within weeks
11/07/2013
A federal appeals court on Friday said PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP must face a securities fraud lawsuit by investors who accuse it of missing red flags when it audited a hedge fund whose portfolio manager eventually went to prison.
11/06/2013
One of the companies they audited China Sky One Medical Inc. – has since been charged by the SEC with financial fraud.
11/06/2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged RBS Securities Inc