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March 31, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Tuesday that it is dropping its requirements for large banks to keep contingency plans for handling severe financial stress scenarios, finalizing the withdrawal of guidelines that date back to the Obama administration.
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March 31, 2026
Pinterest and its top brass have been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court accusing them of failing to disclose to investors the effect U.S. tariffs were having on the social media company's business and advertising revenues, leading to a stock price drop when the truth came to light.
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March 31, 2026
Executives and board members at a mechanical engineering company defeated a class action claiming top brass were illegally compensated for helping refinance an employee stock ownership plan, with a Georgia federal judge ruling that workers hadn't shown that management concealed the shares they owned.
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March 31, 2026
A Teamsters pension fund has filed a class action in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking to block a planned share reclassification by Clearway Energy Inc., alleging the deal would entrench the company's controlling stockholder while stripping public investors of voting power.
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March 31, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former Clifford Chance LLP attorney as a debt finance partner in the firm's complex securitizations practice.
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March 30, 2026
A New York federal judge on Monday tossed a putative securities class action accusing Warner Bros. Discovery and its top brass of misleading investors about its negotiations over NBA broadcast rights, finding the company's statements were either true, inactionable or made obvious by widespread media coverage.
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March 30, 2026
Burford Capital Ltd. says it is contemplating taking its $16 billion fight with Argentina into international arbitration after the Second Circuit wiped out a judgment the litigation funding firm had won against the nation in New York federal court, sending its stock prices tumbling.
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March 30, 2026
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is demanding answers from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins about the sudden resignation of the regulator's enforcement director and whether her departure was related to cryptocurrency cases, including one touching on the Trump family's ventures.
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March 30, 2026
Democrats across both chambers of Congress are demanding that the agencies overseeing prediction markets and the ethics of government workers tell federal employees they can't trade on events if their jobs give them an edge.
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March 30, 2026
The Sixth Circuit won't reverse Financial Industry Regulatory Authority sanctions against the owner of a consulting company who argued he'd been unfairly ruled against by a self-regulatory organization he never joined, though the judges stopped short of weighing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the FINRA findings.
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March 30, 2026
A New York federal judge declined Monday to let Swiss Re's American unit escape a suit claiming it kept an underperforming investment fund in its retirement plan and failed to utilize forfeited cash, ruling the workers behind the case showed the company may have made shoddy management decisions.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's headcount hit a decade low in fiscal year 2025, and some who remain are concerned that key institutional knowledge may have been lost, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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March 30, 2026
Toronto-based TD Bank has moved to New Jersey federal court two suits from hedge funds that invested in First Horizon Corp. alleging TD Bank is liable for their losses due to statements it made about the likelihood of regulatory approval of the banks' merger, arguing the suits both raise federal questions that belong in federal court.
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March 30, 2026
Spartan Securities and other defendants sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an alleged penny stock fraud petitioned the Eleventh Circuit Monday for a full court rehearing of a panel decision affirming a $1 million judgment in favor of the SEC.
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March 30, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured disputes involving globally recognized companies, high-dollar contract fights, revived claims from the state's high court and the resolution of a closely watched de-SPAC case.
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March 30, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has decided to give class treatment to a West Monroe Partners employee's claim that the consulting firm shortchanged workers by at least $50 million when it bought up their stock.
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March 30, 2026
A lawyer told Florida jurors in a federal trial Monday that an AIG unit owes him more than $1 million in costs for defending a sports memorabilia company's former CEO against securities violations, saying the insurer broke a contract to pay his firm for legal services.
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March 30, 2026
An online investment advisory firm that offered clients the chance to copy the trading activity of well-known business and political figures will pay a $500,000 administrative fine and restitution to resolve a complaint that Massachusetts securities regulators brought alleging misleading social media ads.
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March 30, 2026
The top judge of the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday rejected Elon Musk's bid to force her off three high-profile cases involving stockholders and Tesla, but reassigned the litigation anyway, citing concerns that intense public attention could undermine confidence in the proceedings.
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March 30, 2026
As the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission insists it will be the primary cop for the growing expanse of prediction markets, experts said the agency is signaling that its first line of defense will be the internal enforcement programs of registrants like Kalshi.
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March 30, 2026
Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its former executives have agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle investor claims that they carried out a fraudulent "channel stuffing" scheme to inflate the revenue of one of the company's brand-name medications.
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March 30, 2026
Deloitte lost its bid to avoid a June trial in a dispute over the accounting firm's handling of a $77 million share repurchase and planned charitable transfer that allegedly led to an unexpected tax bill for Boston-area developers and philanthropists William and Joyce Cummings.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea by a Dallas real estate developer to hear a challenge to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ability to seize the assets of alleged fraudsters before a trial can take place.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposal Monday to expand access to alternative investments, like private equity and digital assets, in retirement plans by establishing a safe harbor process for fiduciaries to follow when deciding where retirees' savings go.
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March 27, 2026
An attorney for Lockheed Martin employees blasted the aerospace giant's in-house retirement investment funds in Maryland federal court Friday, arguing that it failed in its fiduciary duty to change course when its investment arm kept fees high and consistently underperformed a market full of comparable options.