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Former TD Bank assistant aided drug money laundering network, US says
An assistant manager at a TD Bank store in Midtown Manhattan facilitated more than $90 million in transactions for a money laundering network in exchange for more t... (more story)
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US asks judge to block former coal exec from citing FCPA review at trial
Federal prosecutors asked a judge to block a former Pennsylvania coal sales executive from introducing evidence or argument at his upcoming corruption trial about g... (more story)
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Corporate Transparency Act upheld by US appeals court
A US appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act, an anti-money laundering law, overturning a lower court’s decision that it wa... (more story)
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UK lawmakers have accused the finance ministry of complacency over the rapid expansion of private markets, warning in a report that the ministry has failed to fully appreciate the risks to financial stability ... (more story)
HSBC Bank will pay more than €300 million to French authorities to settle allegations of tax fraud, following a Paris court agreement reached on Thursday.
Banking and cryptocurrency groups are clashing over digital market structure legislation that has passed the US House and is due to be taken up in the Senate. The main issue: how to plug what banks see as a ha... (more story)
Michelle Bowman, the US Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator, said she would urge Congress to update regulatory frameworks currently based on single-metric banking thresholds such as asset size to ones that... (more story)
A former Jefferies International employee has denied a single count of insider trading as he appeared in a London court on Wednesday alongside a close friend. The pair will stand trial in January 2028.
Two former finance directors at Carillion have been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds on Wednesday after failing to alert that the construction company faced “serious financial difficulties.” The construct... (more story)
The European Commission should further delay the implementation of the Basel III bank capital requirement rules — known as the FRTB framework — until 2028, according to ISDA, AFME and the IIF. However, the thr... (more story)
Zurich UK is among insurance firms asked by the Financial Conduct Authority to experiment with artificial intelligence to speed up the processing time for awarding bereavement payments, a senior compliance sta... (more story)
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Negotiation of multiple proposals to foster EU capital markets, new decisions on improving the banking sector’s competitiveness, debates over multi-issued stablecoins, as well as appointments to EU finance top... (more story)
The UK government has set out an ambition to make financial regulation simpler, more proportionate and more supportive of growth. But for financial-services lawyers, 2026 is shaping up to be another demanding ... (more story)
France's Senate is due to consider a bill in the coming days which would give stronger legal protections to in-house lawyers. The country's regulators have warned that the legislation could make it harder for ... (more story)
Law firms and their advisers are wondering whether the UK financial regulator's slimmer work plan will translate into the growth-boosting cut in red tape that ministers have been demanding. While it suggests a... (more story)
While dismissing EU countries’ request for finance-simplification packages, the bloc’s executive arm wants to show that all its legal proposals are aimed at streamlining the rules. The European Commission is, ... (more story)
EU finance ministers on Friday highlighted expected differences between those favoring more centralized markets supervision and those opposed. They had their first discussion on revamped EU market infrastructu... (more story)
UK non-financial misconduct rules still have gray areas, legal experts have warned, despite the release of the Financial Conduct Authority’s latest guidance to clarify its expectations. The FCA will extend its... (more story)
The UK financial watchdog's latest two-year plan shows it opening new fronts in financial-services policy even as the timeline for other current initiatives slips. The FCA's "Regulatory Initiatives Grid" inclu... (more story)