Legal issues and news

Loomis, Sayles & Co. sued Citigroup, alleging the bank caused more than $70 million in losses while executing two separate trading orders that swamped the market.

A federal judge in New York vacated the guilty plea of a former Deutsche Bank trader who admitted to conspiring with others to manipulate the Libor interest rate benchmark, after an appeals court overturned the convictions of two of his ex-colleagues earlier this year.

Two laws signed Friday by President Biden extend the statute of limitations for fraud cases involving pandemic-relief programs. One of them would have a particular impact on Paycheck Protection Program loans made by nonbanks.

Equifax, the second-biggest global credit bureau, was hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit after a report that it provided inaccurate credit scores on millions of U.S. consumers looking for loans.

Robert Calloway, who served as executive vice president at the New Orleans bank before it failed in 2017, was accused of conspiracy to defraud the bank.

In the lead-up to a data breach, phishing is second only to use of stolen credentials in terms of how attackers infiltrate institutions. Here's what else you need to know.

The bank and insurance company for military members accused Truist Financial of infringing on the technology it claims it invented that allows the use of regular mobile devices to capture and transmit checks.

Researchers recently described a scheme that allows affiliates to buy access to phishing materials. The case provides an insight into the methodical nature of some cybercrime.

The Biden administration is poised to put its stamp on the banking regulatory landscape, but there are few slam-dunk solutions that will satisfy both the industry and a vocal Democratic base.

Robinhood Markets' cryptocurrency arm was fined $30 million by New York's financial regulator after the brokerage was accused of violating anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity rules.

The San Francisco megabank plans to reinstate guidance that drew scrutiny following revelations that women and nonwhite candidates were interviewed for jobs that had been reserved for someone else.

Twitter subpoenaed records from Morgan Stanley and other financial firms as part of its legal fight with Elon Musk over his canceled $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform.

Visa said it believes it’s an “improper defendant” in the case.

Former Goldman Sachs Group vice president Brijesh Goel pleaded not guilty to charges that he illegally traded on confidential information he obtained while working at the investment bank.

U.S. brokerage units of JPMorgan Chase and UBS Group agreed to pay a combined $2.1 million in penalties to settle allegations from the Securities and Exchange Commission that they didn’t have the proper policies and programs in place to prevent customer identity theft.

The jury at an upcoming trial can draw an adverse inference about evidence destruction by the Chicago-based bank, a federal judge ruled. The plaintiff is seeking $1.9 billion from the bank, in addition to punitive damages and other funds in a bankruptcy-related case stemming from a Ponzi scheme.

A former Goldman Sachs Group banker was accused of passing insider trading information to a squash buddy, part of a group of nine people charged Monday by federal prosecutors in New York.

Affinity Credit Union in Iowa is taking the tech giant to court over the levies issuers pay to have their cards work in its mobile wallet.

The National Crime Agency has seen a surge in so-called suspicious activity reports filed by banks and other regulated institutions in the U.K. since February. 

New types of financial products designed for the underserved can also be susceptible to scamsters, Juniper Research found, mirroring the Federal Trade Commission's concerns.