07/19/2012
Kumar pleaded guilty in 2010 to securities fraud and faced up to 25 years in prison, but U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin credited his cooperation in refusing to mete out any prison time.
07/18/2012
Observers, however, are beginning to see some consistency regarding the implementation of new regulations across the globe, with the U.S. and Europe setting the bar and Asia catching up.
07/18/2012
Kristin Lemkau, a JPMorgan spokeswoman, said that Goldman asked to leave the company and that during his tenure he "behaved with integrity and we wish him well."
07/18/2012
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority said it has “serious doubts” about the extraterritorial effects of registration required under the Dodd-Frank Act in a letter dated July 5 and received by the CFTC on July 16.
07/17/2012
Elizabeth Butler objected today to a recommendation that the proceeds of joint accounts go to the government to satisfy a $5 million fine and $250,000 forfeiture order.
07/17/2012
A top executive at the bank sensationally quit yesterday in front of a US Senate hearing that exposed the scale of the scandal.
07/17/2012
Axcess Fund is registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator, and Driver is registered as an associated person of Axcess Fund.
07/16/2012
The Community Bank & Trust of Sheboygan -- a town on the shores of Lake Michigan about 60 miles north of Milwaukee -- is claiming manipulation of the benchmark London interbank offered rate, commonly known as Libor, has kept its interest margins artif
07/16/2012
The multiyear probe into HSBC by the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations is expected to reveal activities similar to those that led Wachovia Bank to reach a $160m agreement with the Department of Justice in 2010 to settle allegations that it l
07/15/2012
Deutsche Bank was a heavyweight financial player during the American mortgage meltdown and its aftermath: empty and neglected properties that blight local neighborhoods.
07/15/2012
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York in May began a probe of the bank’s trading losses, a person familiar with the matter said.
07/15/2012
On February 9, 2012, the CFTC issued a final rule regarding changes to Part 4 of the Commission’s regulations involving registration and compliance obligations for CPOs and CTAs.
07/15/2012
The US Justice Department, meanwhile, has identified potential criminal wrongdoing by big banks and individuals at the centre of the scandal.
07/15/2012
Swiss bank accounts are often used by tax evaders.
07/12/2012
Both have been called to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on the scandal surrounding Libor, a measure of the cost of money that is used as the basis for more than £200 trillion in loans.
07/12/2012
UK newspaper the Guardian says it has been told by sources that Diamond is likely to be called to Washington to answer questions about the Libor-fixing scandal.
07/12/2012
Those were among the findings reported by the Advanced Planning and Family Office Practice Group at US law firm Handler Thayer LLP in their 2012 outlook.
07/11/2012
In the note sent to employees on Tuesday, the London-based lender's chief executive Stuart Gulliver said the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations would expose weaknesses in the bank's money laundering controls.
07/11/2012
Notheis, 44, who ran Morgan Stanley's operations in Germany and Austria for more than three years, was granted leave of absence by the bank last month following an uproar over emails he reportedly exchanged with Mappus.
07/11/2012
But those changes left the New York Fed’s front-line examiners without deep knowledge of JPMorgan’s operations for a brief yet critical time, said those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because there is a federal investigation o