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  • February 10, 2026

    HSBC Ignored $8M Pig Butchering Scam Warnings, Suit Says

    A retired anesthesiologist and his sons have sued HSBC's U.S. arm, accusing it of ignoring warning signs and allowing scammers to siphon more than $8 million from the elderly retiree's accounts through an international "romance pig butchering" fraud. 

  • February 10, 2026

    Financial Services Forum Taps Ex-Truist Exec For GC

    Banking industry group Financial Services Forum has hired a general counsel who most recently was a senior Truist Financial Corp. lawyer and who previously worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as senior counsel in its legal division.

  • February 10, 2026

    Biz Says Bank Unit Wrongfully Put It On High-Risk List

    A family-owned cutlery seller told a Georgia federal court Tuesday that a U.S. Bank payment processing subsidiary wrongfully placed it on a list that flags businesses for suspicion of high-risk behavior and terminated its payment processing services without justification.

  • February 10, 2026

    Feds Argue Russian Billionaire Lacks Yacht Ownership

    The U.S. Department of Justice urged the Second Circuit to affirm a district court decision that authorized the United States to sell a Russian billionaire's seized superyacht, arguing he can't suffer the loss of something he barely owns.

  • February 10, 2026

    'Pig Butchering' Fugitive Gets 20 Years For $73M Crypto Scam

    A dual citizen of China and Saint Kitts and Nevis was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison and three years supervised release for his role in an international money laundering scheme that laundered over $73 million worth of criminal proceeds obtained through so-called "pig butchering" cryptocurrency investment scams.

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