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  • February 10, 2026

    Colony Ridge To Pay $68M To End DOJ, Texas Lending Case

    Houston-area developer Colony Ridge will pay $68 million to settle with the U.S. government and state of Texas over claims that it targeted Hispanic consumers with predatory land sales and financing, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

  • February 10, 2026

    Swipe-Fee Class Wants Personal Injury Firm Sanctioned

    A class of merchants in a lengthy antitrust litigation against Visa and Mastercard is seeking sanctions against a personal injury firm and one of its referral partners, arguing the third-party entities have repeatedly misled would-be class members about the case's settlement and how much recovery they might receive.

  • February 10, 2026

    BlackRock Brass Face Derivative Suit Over Coal Investments

    Several officers and directors of BlackRock have been hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of damaging the asset manager's reputation by participating in a scheme to drive up coal prices, an issue at the center of an antitrust suit brought by a coalition of Republican-led states.

  • 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.

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