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November 29, 2023
The consumer credit subsidiary of French bank BNP Paribas was sentenced on appeal in Paris on Tuesday in the Helvet Immo case to a maximum fine of 187,500 euros (CHF180,900) for misleading commercial practices.
November 23, 2023
The European Commission has fined Rabobank €26.6 million for participating in a cartel concerning the trading of certain Euro-denominated bonds, together with Deutsche Bank.
November 21, 2023
Shell Energy has been fined £1.4m by the UK\'s telecoms regulator for failing to tell more than 70,000 mobile phone and broadband customers to review their contracts as they approached expiry.
November 15, 2023
Six Italian energy providers includin were fined more than 15.6 million euros ($16.31 million) for charging consumers more during a ban on unilateral price hikes, Italy\'s antitrust agency (AGCM) said on Wednesday.
November 7, 2023
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that a state grand jury indicted a father and son from Bergen County for allegedly defrauding investors and mortgage lenders of more than $2.5 million through an investment scam involving Jersey Shore real estate.
November 6, 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Canada’s largest bank, Royal Bank of Canada, will pay a $6 million penalty to settle charges that it violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the securities laws relating to its accounting for its costs of internally developed software.
November 6, 2023
A federal jury ruled that the powerful National Association of Realtors and several large brokerages had conspired to artificially inflate the commissions paid to real estate agents.
November 3, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against personal finance app provider Brigit, alleging that its promises of “instant†cash advances of up to $250 for people living paycheck to paycheck were deceptive and that the company locked consumers into a $9.99 monthly membership they couldn’t cancel.
November 3, 2023
Greece fined two multinational companies for excessive profit margins, announced the development ministry on Thursday.
November 2, 2023
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against Ceres Global Ag, a company based in Golden Valley, Minnesota, for attempting to manipulate the price of the July 2016 and March 2017 oats futures contracts.
November 1, 2023
Harris County, Tx. Attorney Christian D. Menefee announced a settlement of the county’s lawsuit against Altria Group, Philip Morris USA and related companies over their role in deceptively marketing Juul e-cigarette products to minors.
October 30, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission sued to stop four related defendants from deceptively marketing their 1 Virus Buster Invisible Mask (Invisible Mask) that purportedly creates a three foot barrier of protection against 99.9 percent of all viruses and bacteria, including COVID 19 without any scientific proof that the product actually works.