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New York State Superintendent of Financial Services may exclude electronic trades from FX deals
April 22nd, 2015
New York State Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawsky said evaluations of electronic trading may hold up foreign-exchange settlements for certain banks. Mr. Lawsky, speaking at a Dow Jones risk and compliance conference Tuesday, said it could take the ...
UK trader charged for manipulation contributing to 2010 flash crash
April 22nd, 2015
A high-frequency futures trader has been charged with illegally manipulating the stock market, contributing to the May 2010 “flash crash,” according to documents unsealed Tuesday. The Justice Department charged the United Kingdom’s Navinder Singh Sarao with wire fraud, 10 ...
Former ConvergEx trader admits books and records falsification
April 7th, 2015
Former Convergex Global Markets trader, Michael Craig Marshall, pleads guilty for scheme to falsify books and records A former trader at ConvergEx Global Markets has pleaded guilty in federal court in New Jersey for his role in a scheme ...
Banks Are Poised to Profit From Forex Tumult
April 2nd, 2015
Swiss central bank’s surprise January move led to volatility that can help Wall Street The big currency swings of the past three months have whipsawed many investors. Wall Street may end up loving the action. As U.S. banks closed ...
Citigroup Report Chides Law Firms for Silence on Hackings
March 31st, 2015
Every month it seems another American company reports being a victim of a hacking that results in the theft of internal or customer information. But the legal profession almost never publicly discloses a breach. The unwillingness of most big ...
Standard Chartered Shares Jump as New CEO Winters Draws Upgrades
March 18th, 2015
Standard Chartered Plc rose the most in two weeks as analysts at Barclays Plc and Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. upgraded the bank, citing Bill Winters’s hiring as chief executive officer and a diminishing need to raise capital. “We expect ...
Citigroup, Barclays Close to Settling Forex Lawsuit With Private Investors
March 18th, 2015
Citigroup Inc. and Barclays PLC are expected to pay as much as $800 million combined to settle a lawsuit with investors who say the banks manipulated foreign-exchange rates, according to people close to the situation. The expected settlements would ...
Swiss bank UBS settles currency-rigging claims for $135M
March 16th, 2015
Switzerland‘s largest bank, UBS, has agreed to pay $135 million to settle claims that it helped rig currency-exchange rates in a scheme involving some of the world’s biggest banks. The settlement announced Friday by the lead law firm in ...
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 ...
BNY Mellon in forex settlement talks with U.S., N.Y. – sources
February 25th, 2015
Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK.N) is in settlement talks with the U.S. Justice Department and New York attorney general over claims the bank defrauded clients in foreign exchange transactions, according to sources familiar with the matter. BNY ...
