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U.S. Set to Rip Up UBS Libor Accord, Seek Conviction
May 13th, 2015
The U.S. Justice Department is set to rip up its agreement not to prosecute UBS Group AG for rigging benchmark interest rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, taking a new step to hold banks accountable for ...
Global Bitcoin Exchange itBit Today Starts Accepting U.S. Customers Nationwide Through New York State Trust Company Charter
May 8th, 2015
itBit also announces $25M Series A funding and the addition of three prominent board members Global bitcoin exchange itBit today announced it is available to all U.S. retail and institutional bitcoin traders and will begin accepting U.S. customers immediately. Through a trust company ...
Big U.S. investors push SEC for oil industry to detail risks of climate change
April 17th, 2015
Calpers, the largest American public pension fund, and nearly 60 other institutional investors will ask the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday to require oil and natural gas companies to publish detailed analysis of the risks posed by climate change to ...
Citibank Seen as Target for Plea in U.S. Currency Case
April 3rd, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing for Citigroup Inc.’s main banking subsidiary to plead guilty to a felony tied to the rigging of foreign-exchange markets, according to two people briefed on the matter. Citigroup has countered with an ...
Antitrust and Other Inquiries in Europe Target U.S. Tech Giants
April 3rd, 2015
It is not a good week to be a giant American tech company in Europe. The European antitrust investigation into Google appears to be heating up. More European countries are looking into Facebook’s privacy settings. And Apple, which already is ...
CFTC Orders ICE Futures U.S., Inc. to Pay a $3 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for Recurring Data Reporting Violations
March 17th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against ICE Futures U.S., Inc. (ICE), a designated contract market (DCM), for submitting inaccurate and incomplete reports and data to the CFTC over at least ...
U.S. banks’ buybacks, dividends may be no reason for shareholder celebrations
March 11th, 2015
Big U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Citigroup Inc(C.N), are expected to win Federal Reserve backing on Wednesday to buy back more shares and increase their dividends in the coming year, but the approvals may be as much about the institutions’ financial ...
Commerzbank nears $1.4 billion-plus settlement with U.S. – sources
March 6th, 2015
Commerzbank AG (CBKG.DE) is nearing an agreement to pay U.S. authorities more than $1.4 billion to settle allegations it violated U.S. sanctions and a separate investigation that stemmed from the Olympus Corp (7733.T) accounting scandal, according to two people ...
Shanghai’s Free-Trade Zone Fails to Impress U.S. Companies
March 4th, 2015
U.S. companies in Shanghai are skeptical about the business benefits of the city’s pilot free-trade zone and have echoed concerns by American companies elsewhere in China about growing antiforeign sentiment and slowing economic growth. An annual survey released on ...
Biggest Global Banks Go to Pieces Under Pressure From Regulators
February 27th, 2015
Global regulators have issued dozens of rules aimed at making the biggest banks safer. That’s leading to another result some wanted: making them shrink. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, said this week it’s considering “extreme ...
