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US Fed nominee Miran says he may continue serving at Fed after term is up
President Trump’s US Federal Reserve nominee Stephen Miran said he might continue to serve at the Fed once his term is up on January 31, 2026 – and “re-evaluate” at... (more story)
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Digital security company Surys fined by Paris prosecutors over corruption
French digital security company Surys has been fined 18.3 million euros as part of a plea agreement struck with Paris prosecutors over suspected bribery and money l... (more story)
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US Fed phasing out special Biden-era oversight of crypto assets
The US Federal Reserve said it will phase out its special Biden-era supervision of banks’ crypto assets and other “novel” activities and return to overseeing these ... (more story)
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UK high-risk investment promoter Wellesley & Co, or WCL, will face no action from the country’s financial regulator over allegations of fraud and its collapse this year. Its sister company, the unregulated Wel... (more story)
Banque Havilland adopted a “covert and manipulative” trading strategy to attack Qatar’s currency at the bidding of its top executives, the UK’s financial regulator has told a UK court. The Luxembourg-based pri... (more story)
Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin was convicted on corruption charges for paying bribes to Honduran officials in exchange for contracts to supply uniforms to the country’s national police.
A Georgia businessman bribed Honduran officials to win business and to get paid on government contracts, prosecutors said Friday in their closing argument of his corruption trial, while the defense said he had... (more story)
The defense rested its case Thursday in the corruption trial of Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin after jurors heard testimony from his company’s former finance chief and his longtime corporate attorney. Closing... (more story)
Brian Quintenz, President Trump’s nominee to head the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, shared screenshots Wednesday of what he said were messages suggesting that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss tried to g... (more story)
A Honduran lawyer testifying for the defense in the corruption trial of Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin said he had represented the man’s company locally for more than 20 years and worked on matters related to... (more story)
Former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has lost his bid to overturn sanctions imposed on him by the EU following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This follows reports over the weekend that th... (more story)
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Allegations of a Mexican businessman’s purported ties to a drug cartel were racist and motivated by politics, and they render a US corruption investigation against him unconstitutional, according to a recent m... (more story)
UK-based Vanquis Bank may have escaped with just a rap over the knuckles for sanctions breaches, but the case demonstrates that poor compliance can lead to scrutiny. While OFSI declined to fine the bank, it sa... (more story)
A former senior FBI official serving two prison sentences also obstructed a bribery investigation of a Chinese energy firm while working for the agency, according to a new report by the US Justice Department’s... (more story)
Large companies have been warned of consequences if they lack procedures to prevent fraud, once new UK legislation comes into effect next week. But history suggests that enforcement could be some way off. As t... (more story)
Allegations of bribery involving Smartmatic, lodged by US federal prosecutors in a criminal case against the voting machine producer’s cofounder and two current and former executives, have bled their way into ... (more story)
UK retailer WHSmith’s announcement yesterday that it had overstated its expected North American profits by around $30 million led to a plunge in its share price and concerns about its accounting practices. Whi... (more story)
A UK accounting firm is the first to face prosecution for failure to prevent tax evasion, eight years after the offense was written into UK law. While the law may have changed some companies' behavior, the cas... (more story)
A US Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City paper raised a red flag for the first time about the possibly harmful impact of the GENIUS Act on US credit markets, as other questions about the stablecoin regulatory ... (more story)