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November 15, 2017
HSBC Holdings C will pay about 300 million euros to settle a criminal investigation by the French government into allegations it helped clients evade taxes.
November 14, 2017
Credit Suisse announced that it has reached a settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) related to the conduct of its Foreign Exchange (FX) Rates business.
November 13, 2017
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) in Taipei handed Chang Hwa Commercial Bank a NT$3 million fine ($99,430) for unilaterally altering clients’ property insurance policies so clients have to pay higher premiums.
November 13, 2017
The pilot and the captain of the Panama-flagged car carrier City of Rotterdam, which was involved in a collision with a ferry in December 2015, have received suspended sentences of four months in prison each.
November 10, 2017
Opus Bank announced that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding to settle the putative class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Schwartz v. Opus Bank.
November 8, 2017
A former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent, who had been a member of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force, was sentenced to prison on charges of money laundering.
November 8, 2017
Charges were unsealed against two former executives of Rolls-Royce plc and its subsidiaries (Rolls-Royce), a former Rolls-Royce employee, a former intermediary for Rolls-Royce in Kazakhstan and an executive of an international engineering consulting firm.
November 8, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning investors to beware online “paid-to-click†scams that promise an easy payday by merely purchasing a membership or an advertising product up front and then clicking on a certain number of online ads each day.
November 6, 2017
SBM Offshore said it had taken a new $238 million provision, mainly to settle a case with U.S. authorities.
November 3, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a Maryland-based biotech company and four former top executives with prioritizing revenue growth over lawful accounting and misleading investors in the process.
November 2, 2017
A petroleum engineer who worked at Texas-based energy company Apache Corporation has agreed to settle SEC charges that he conducted insider trading ahead of a market-moving announcement about the company’s discovery of a significant new oil source.
November 1, 2017
Hilton Worldwide has reached a $700,000 settlement with New York and Vermont over two separate data breaches two years ago that exposed more than 360,000 credit card numbers.