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Currency trader of Deutsche Bank was dismissed for irregularities
September 22nd, 2014
A Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) currency trader was dismissed earlier this year after internal checks uncovered irregularities around how he recorded trades, the bank said. Andy Donaldson was suspended in June and dismissed shortly after, Sydney-based Adrian Cox, a ...
SEC probing Goldman Sachs internship
September 19th, 2014
U.S. regulators are investigating a Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) internship for the brother of a former official at Libya’s sovereign wealth fund and perks allegedly offered by the bank to the fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...
New York says Barclays move to toss fraud case should be denied
September 17th, 2014
The New York attorney general on Tuesday rebutted Barclays Plc’s (BARC.L) motion to dismiss the state’s lawsuit alleging fraud in how it ran a private trading platform, calling the arguments in the petition “misguided” and “disingenuous.” New York Attorney ...
EU regulators expect Novo Banco sale to proceed as agreed
September 15th, 2014
European Union state aid regulators expect Portugal to sell Novo Banco, the successor to troubled Banco Espirito Santo (BES) (BES.LS), in line with a pledge made in return for regulatory approval of its 4.9-billion-euro state bailout. “There is a ...
IMF warns of market fallout from a Scottish split
September 12th, 2014
The International Monetary Fund has waded into the debate over Scottish independence, saying that a Yes vote in next week’s referendum could lead to market turbulence. “The main immediate effect is likely to be uncertainty over the transition to ...
Mexican companies sue Yahoo, law firm charge conspiracy to avoid $2.7 billion judgment
September 12th, 2014
Two Mexican companies have sued Yahoo! Inc (YHOO.O) and law firm Baker & McKenzie in New York federal court, accusing them of engineering a conspiracy to avoid a $2.7 billion judgment issued by a Mexico court in 2012. In ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
Morgan Stanley to pay $95 million in U.S. mortgage-debt settlement
September 9th, 2014
Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has agreed to pay $95 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the Wall Street bank of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The settlement, disclosed in court papers ...
Telefonica trials to take AT&T home security technology overseas
September 9th, 2014
AT&T Inc (T.N) on Monday said Spain’s Telefonica SA (TEF.MC) will license its home security technology for limited trials in Europe as the U.S. carrier hopes it has found a new way to profit from its nascent connected-home business. ...
Stolen JPMorgan data rerouted to Russia
September 4th, 2014
Investigators working on the cyber attack at JPMorgan Chase & Co have found clues that a global network of computers available for hire was used to send the stolen data to a Russian city, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar ...
