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July 11, 2017
Spanish airline Iberia said it will stop asking new employees to take pregnancy tests after it was slapped with a fine of €25,000 ($29,000) for discrimination.
July 11, 2017
A federal judge has approved a plan for Wells Fargo & Co. to pay $142 million in a class action suit involving customers of fake accounts.
July 7, 2017
In the first provincial court case prosecuted in Canada for misrepresentation of a kosher food product, Creation Foods Co. of Woodbridge, has been fined $25,000.
July 7, 2017
A former Audi manager has been charged via criminal complaint for his role in the long-running conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in thousands of Audi “clean diesel†vehicles.
July 6, 2017
The EU's top court dismissed an appeal by the Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, upholding a fine of more than €61 million imposed by the European Commission for participating in a cartel.
July 6, 2017
The Russian technical watchdog has discovered about 3,500 violations at a refinery of oil company Bashneft that will require up to 45 billion rubles to eliminate, Rustem Khamitov, head of the republic of Bashkortostan, said at a local government meeting.
July 1, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Chicago-area information technology company Quadrant 4 System Corp. (QFOR) and two former top executives in an accounting fraud scheme that misled investors and allowed the former executives to siphon millions from the firm for their personal benefit.
June 30, 2017
The U.S. and the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin announced an $8.2 million settlement with XIK, Honeywell International, and Domtar to resolve a claim for natural resource damages.
June 29, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a Canadian-based oil and gas company and three of its former top finance executives for their roles in an extensive, multi-year accounting fraud.
June 28, 2017
The Federal Reserve Board announced a $3 million fine against Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) for unsafe and unsound practices after the firm improperly assigned a lower risk weighting to a portfolio of assets, reducing the firm's risk-based capital ratios.
June 28, 2017
The Financial and capital Market Commission (FCMC) in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Counterproliferation Center has identified three Latvian banks, Baltikums Bank, Privatbank and ReÄ£ionÄlÄ investÄ«ciju banka which had not complied with the provisions of anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regulatory framework.
June 27, 2017
Mexico's Profeco federal consumer protection agency said that it has fined five airlines for wrongly charging passengers for their first checked bag on flights from Mexico City to the United States and Canada.