Law and legal issues

Renaud Laplanche agreed to pay $200,000 and accept a ban from the securities industry to settle a long-running SEC probe. A LendingClub subsidiary and the firm's former CFO, Carrie Dolan, were also fined.

Major banks including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase must face allegations that they conspired to prevent the "antiquated" stock loan market from evolving into a transparent electronic exchange.

Advocates are seeking more federal funding for affordable housing. A federal investigation into the banks’ alleged manipulation of a popular tax-credit program can’t be helping their cause.

Marianne Lake could be JPM’s eventual choice to succeed Dimon; three agencies investigating money laundering allegations against Danske Bank.

Apple Federal Credit Union and Envision CU are the latest to be targeted in a growing trend as plaintiffs go after credit unions alleging deceptive overdraft practices.

The consumer bureau alleges Future Income Payments lured vulnerable consumers into taking out high-cost loans in exchange for their future pension payments.

Court gives securities regulators a victory on initial coin offerings; bank’s stock suffers its longest losing streak.

John Gerspach is scheduled to leave next March after 10 years and be succeeded by Mark Mason; ING will pay nearly $900 million for failing to stop money laundering by clients.

JPMorgan Chase has reached a settlement with financial advisers who say they were treated poorly because they're black.

The deal lets Google learn more about what people buy based on online ads, but raises privacy concerns; checkbooks favor Congressman Sean Maloney.

Nine of the world's biggest banks won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to rig bonds issued by government entities and institutions like the World Bank, after a federal judge said the investors who sued didn't show how the alleged collusion led to higher prices for the securities.

OCC proposal would broaden the types of loans that would count toward CRA obligations; new law helps parents freeze accounts of minors.

State Treasurer John Chiang says that Wells Fargo is keeping patterns of abuse hidden from view by resolving customer disputes through private arbitration.

A Maryland-based credit union is suing the nation's largest CUSO in a dispute related to call center services provided by PSCU.

The bank said the candidate planned to accept money from the medical marijuana industry; the crash in digital currency prices’ long-term consequences.

More than 100 staffers at the Allentown, Pa.-based credit union took to the picket lines in a dispute with management over compensation and benefits, forcing the credit union to temporarily close at least two branches.

The Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned Citigroup because of unauthorized proprietary trading as well as for the failure to detect suspect loans issued by its Banamex unit.

The board chair for CoastHills Credit Union says a wrongful termination suit by ousted CEO Jeff York is full of "false allegations," and that the credit union acted in the "best interests" of members.

The investors initially won the right to sue as a group in 2015 before an appeals court reversed the ruling; the $13 billion lawsuit can now proceed as a class action.

Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job for a Chicago banker at the center of Manafort’s fraud trial.