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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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US OCC rescinds Biden administration recovery guidelines for large banks
Biden administration recovery guidelines for large banks have been rescinded by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which cited the elimination of “un... (more story)
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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)
Alain Tzvi Bibliowicz Mitrani, a Florida-based businessman, was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for leading an organization that laundered at least $300 million in drug and criminal proceeds.
A criminal investigation into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation by UK prosecutors led to it being had “over a barrel” by lenders, lawyers for the Kazakh miner have said as it opened a $290 million claim a... (more story)
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, expressed concern that US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins deliberately misled lawmakers about declining enforcem... (more story)
No breakthrough on the EU's 20th Russia sanctions plan is likely at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week despite the political transition in Hungary, an EU diplomat said on Friday. The package... (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)