A Senate subcommittee approved a bill to increase funding by about 19 percent for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. [read post]
Ahead of a British parliamentary hearing, executives said they thought they had implicit approval from regulators to manipulate interest rates. [read post]
Ahead of a British parliamentary hearing, executives said they thought they had implicit approval from regulators to manipulate interest rates. [read post]
Timothy F. Geithner was grilled on Wednesday about the growing interest rate rigging scandal, as lawmakers questioned why he failed to thwart the illegal activity during the financial crisis. [read post]
The PNC Financial Services Group has suspended sales of foreclosed homes for 30 days, according to a title insurer that received the memo from the bank. [read post]
Britain's financial regulator has fined and banned two former executives of mortgage lender Northern Rock -- the country's first major casualty of the global credit crunch -- for misreporting figures on loan arrears, The Associated Press reports. [read post]
General Motors executives want their own auto-financing arm so they can offer more competitive lease and loan deals, The Associated Press reported. [read post]
For the other banks in the Libor investigation, the Barclays settlement provides a template for the type of cooperation the Justice Department expects, and the range of monetary penalties they may have to pay. [read post]
Britain's Financial Services Authority fined Rowan Dartington & Co and Close Investments Limited Monday, both for a failure to correctly protect and segregate client money from their own. [read post]
Discover Financial Services paid Morgan Stanley $775 million to settle claims related to sharing proceeds from an antitrust suit against credit card networks Visa and MasterCard, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. [read post]
Congress is seeking more documents and communications between the New York Fed and employees from all 16 banks that help set the Libor rate. [read post]
White Collar Watch examines how the financial regulatory overhaul will expand the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the chief market regulators. [read post]
JPMorgan was fined $48.9 million by Britain's financial regulator Thursday, the highest penalty it has ever imposed, for failing to keep client funds separate from the firm's money. [read post]
Bank of New York Mellon may continue shopping around for more deals, even after it sewed up its second acquisition this year, Bloomberg News reported. [read post]
The arrest of seven individuals and raids on the offices of nine more by British regulatory agencies this week could be tied to the front-running of block trades, Bloomberg News reported, without identifying its source. [read post]
The Financial Services Authority, Britain's main financial regulator, fined UBS £9.45 million on Tuesday for improperly selling an A.I.G. fund. [read post]
The report also challenges some of Robert E. Diamond Jr.'s assertions about the bank's relationship with regulators and raises questions about the culture and top leadership at the bank. [read post]