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Fired Currency Traders Won’t Leave Quietly
September 16th, 2015
Six lawsuits filed in London by FX traders emerged last month Banks also faced employee suits after Libor scandal lay-offs As banks try to clean up trading floors beset by benchmark-rigging scandals, not all fired workers are leaving quietly. ...
RBS in 84.4 million pound mortgage securities deal with U.S. regulator
September 16th, 2015
Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC has agreed to pay 88.4 million pounds to resolve claims by a U.S. regulator that it sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to now-failed credit unions, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The National ...
Ex-Wells Fargo trader beats SEC insider trading charges
September 15th, 2015
A former Wells Fargo & Co trader on Monday was cleared of insider trading charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after a major appellate decision limited authorities’ ability to pursue such cases. Following a trial before ...
Big Banks Agree to Settle Swaps Lawsuit
September 14th, 2015
Dozen banks, Markit and International Swaps and Derivatives Association to pay combined $1.87 billion Wall Street’s biggest banks have agreed to a tentative settlement over allegations that they conspired to rig the market for credit derivatives. Twelve banks and ...
Traders’ Phones Are Becoming a Zone of Total Surveillance
September 14th, 2015
At large banks, regulatory requirements and new technology change how conversations are conducted Wall Street has a message for its traders: Watch what you say. At large banks in the U.S. and Europe, traders’ everyday activities are being recorded ...
Citi shared central bank info with clients: ex trader
September 11th, 2015
Citigroup sent details of its central bank customers’ trading activity to another client and handed out details of its foreign exchange order book to customers in electronic chatrooms, a former foreign exchange trader said in a witness statement to ...
SEC Charges BDO and Five Partners in Connection With False and Misleading Audit Opinions
September 10th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged national audit firm BDO USA with dismissing red flags and issuing false and misleading unqualified audit opinions about the financial statements of staffing services company General Employment Enterprises. The SEC also charged ...
AMF: list update of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading
September 9th, 2015
The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified. The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is once again warning retail investors against aggressive ...
Russia’s Fist Just Clenched Around the Internet a Little Tighter
September 2nd, 2015
A new Russian law imposes restrictions on foreign Internet firms. It’s a feeling locals already know all too well. Global Internet firms operating in Russia wake up on Tuesday to a new era in Kremlin regulation. A law now ...
China state media announces confessions in probes into stocks plunge
August 31st, 2015
Chinese state media announced a slew of confessions on Monday following investigations into recent stock market gyrations, including from a detained reporter who admitted to spreading false information that caused “panic and disorder”. An official from China‘s securities regulator ...
