Crime and misconduct

The settlement is the latest development in probes by governments around the globe into banks’ manipulation of benchmark interest rates.

The agency found no “systemic issues” in its review of other banks’ sales practices; some churches say the lenders are needed, others see the devil.

The OCC finds widespread problems in bank retail sales practices; Ripple and Swift competition for payments pits technology against convention.

An inquiry into the sales practices of more than 40 banks launched in the wake of the Wells scandal found several systemic issues and hundreds of problems at individual institutions. The OCC completed the review in December but is not making the results public.

The banker made $140,000 in illegal trading profits; the German bank faces Fed stress test and “living will” examination soon.

Speaking at an industry conference Thursday, Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan left open the possibility that employees intentionally falsified important regulatory documents.

The $1.9 trillion-asset bank is under pressure to provide investors more information about when it expects to resolve the numerous headaches that have arisen in the wake of its phony-accounts scandal.

The bank sought to evade the consequences of compliance failures including weak scrutiny of transactions that could be tied to North Korea, the N.Y. banking superintendent said in demanding access to communications between the bank and its new supervisor, the OCC.