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US Fed chair nominee Warsh tells senators he will keep Fed independent from Trump
US Federal Reserve chair-nominee Kevin Warsh pledged to opt for interest rates based on his own judgment, independent of President Trump’s wishes, denying a publish... (more story)
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US Treasury advances cyber plan for crypto industry to ward off threats
The US Treasury said it launched a plan to provide “timely, actionable cybersecurity information” to the digital assets industry as cyber threats targeting cryptocu... (more story)
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US CFTC aims to expand prediction market MOUs from MLB to other leagues
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig, who last month signed an information-sharing memorandum of understanding with Major League Baseball rel... (more story)
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A lawyer linked to collapsed “Ponzi scheme” London Capital Finance was struck off from practicing law on Wednesday after a legal body found he had purposely backdated loan and financial documents. Robert Sedgw... (more story)
Four people have been arrested in the UK on fraud allegations, over claims that energy companies were defrauded out of £44 million as part of a suspected conspiracy connected to a government-backed energy prog... (more story)
The overturning of Swedbank head Birgitte Bonnesen's conviction for making misleading statements about the lender's anti-money laundering measures has “surprised” the prosecutor who brought the case against he... (more story)
A US House of Representatives committee approved legislation that would deeply narrow the scope of an anti-money laundering law that required the beneficial owners of certain companies to identify themselves. ... (more story)
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s $290 million compensation claim over an abandoned decade-long bribery prosecution is fatally flawed, lawyers for the UK’s fraud prosecutor told a London court on Tuesda... (more story)
Former Swedbank chief Birgitte Bonnesen has seen her conviction linked to the lender’s involvement in a money-laundering scandal overturned by Sweden’s highest court. She was convicted over comments she made t... (more story)
The recent surprise departure of the head of the Serious Fraud Office won’t prompt a significant change of policy at the UK enforcer, a senior official has said. Matthew Wagstaff, SFO director of legal service... (more story)
US regulators would require less systemic-risk data from private credit funds, which have been struggling of late, as well as from hedge and private equity funds, under a proposal today. Fewer investment advis... (more story)
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After a decade that has seen France become one of the world’s most dependable enforcers of corporate wrongdoing, lawmakers are threatening to rip up the country’s plea-deal system. If they vote through the cha... (more story)
Eight years after Latvia's major money laundering scandal, the challenge is ensuring tough banking reforms are adhered to without stifling activity in the sector, the head of the country's central authority fo... (more story)
Despite a new US executive order directing the Department of Justice to move “swiftly, deliberately, and proactively” to disable cyberthreats and prosecute cybercriminals, the chronically delayed trial of alle... (more story)
An alleged scheme to divert billions of dollars’ worth of high-performance Supermicro servers integrated with Nvidia artificial intelligence technology to China involved repeated deceptions of corporate compli... (more story)
A group of Senate Democrats is proposing to extend the statute of limitations for a key anti-bribery law to give future administrations additional time to prosecute Trump-era corporate corruption. Though unlik... (more story)
A jury in Los Angeles could decide this summer whether a chartered helicopter ride to a Lakers basketball game for a Senegalese government official, paid for with allegedly stolen investor funds as part of a b... (more story)
Lawyers representing John Ormerod — a British accountant who became the first UK-based national to be designated by the government over alleged Russian sanctions breaches — said it was too early to say whether... (more story)
A new executive order from the White House says the US will take a hard line with “transnational criminal organizations” that launch ransomware and other cyberattacks. The order from President Donald Trump ins... (more story)