Lawsuits

A former Citigroup trader claims the bank purposely mischaracterized his comments in online chat groups to try to make him its scapegoat in a U.S. criminal probe of foreign-exchange price fixing.

The Kentucky Bankers Association is seeking to halt Attorney General Daniel Cameron's investigation into climate commitments made by six large banks. The suit alleges that the AG overstepped his authority by seeking to compel the banks to turn over certain documents and communications.

The Biden administration is considering extending its pause on student loan repayments, now set to resume Jan. 1, in response to legal challenges to its student-debt forgiveness program, according to people familiar with the internal discussions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is challenging a recent appeals court decision that its funding through the Federal Reserve Board violates the separation of powers doctrine. That ruling "threatens to inflict immense legal and practical harms" on financial regulation, the CFPB says.

Both sides in the litigation over 2012 Federal Housing Finance Agency amendments to stock purchase agreements say they're weighing their options.

Some 16 million applications for student debt relief will be approved by this week, provided the White House plan survives court challenges, President Biden said Thursday. 

A former Deutsche Bank credit trader laid off when the lender closed down its bad bank has sued the company in London, saying she was denied hundreds of thousands of pounds in bonuses.

JPMorgan Chase agreed to resolve a suit by a former vice president in its anti-corruption unit claiming she was marginalized, mistreated and then fired from the bank for complaining about compliance failures.

Credit Suisse Group agreed to pay €238 million ($234 million) to settle a French criminal probe into allegations the bank helped clients stash undeclared funds.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by six Republican-led states challenging President Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan, finding the states failed to show they'd be directly harmed.

A Wisconsin taxpayers group asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Biden's student-loan relief plan from taking effect, accusing him of usurping the power of Congress and costing taxpayers potentially more than $1 trillion.

JPMorgan Chase must face a lawsuit from a former trader who claims he was fired in retaliation for cooperating with U.S. prosecutors investigating illegal spoof trades at the bank's precious-metals trading business, a federal judge in New York ruled.

A former Deutsche Bank managing director said she was put up for redundancy purely because of her age and gender, just as executives in London feared the COVID pandemic would hit lending to the bank's wealthy clients.

An ex-Goldman Sachs Group banker sued the investment bank for around £20.3 million ($22.9 million) to make up for his losing his job after he made whistleblowing allegations about regulatory failures.

Robinhood Markets is poised to succeed in pushing a female former engineer's claims about a "toxic culture of gender bias" at the company out of open court and into private arbitration.

Voyager Digital Ltd. creditors are taking issue with plans to provide the crypto lender's directors and officers with immunity from lawsuits tied to its descent into bankruptcy. 

The U.S. Treasury Department faces a second lawsuit over its August decision to sanction Tornado Cash, a crypto-mixing service that obscures sources of coin transactions. 

Minority farmers who sought to take advantage of a U.S. debt-assistance program claim in a lawsuit that the government failed to provide any of the promised relief and reneged on a deal to resolve their discrimination claims.

Sexual assaults, lurid propositions and a sex tape pack the latest filings in a class action against Goldman Sachs. But it's a boss's comment about his assistant's engagement ring two decades ago and a woman who complained an executive checked her out that have set off an especially bitter dispute in the case.

The Biden administration was accused in a lawsuit by six Republican-led states of overstepping its authority with a plan to forgive federal student loans.