President Donald Trump again sought refuge for his Capital One and Deutsche Bank records from congressional subpoenas Friday, this time asking the Supreme Court to shield them from a House committee.
Read moreExcoriating the Turkish government’s intense campaign to delay and dismiss the record-breaking money-laundering case, a federal judge found Thursday that the state-run Halkbank is “almost certainly” a fugitive.
Read morePutting up the largest sum ever offered for a cyber-criminal’s arrest, the State Department announced it will pay up to $5 million for information pertaining to a Russian hacker charged Thursday for his decade-long role in international bank fraud and malware schemes.
Read moreA federal class action claims Bank of America unfairly charges full-time students a $12 monthly maintenance fee once they turn 24 years old if they do not deposit at least $250 a month and keep a $1,500 minimum daily balance.
Read moreThe Second Circuit cleared the way Tuesday for two House committees to access financial records that President Donald Trump and his associates have stored in Deutsche Bank and Capital One.
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There’s a powerful new player watching what you buy so it can tailor product offerings for you: the bank behind your credit or debit card.
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A month into Senator Ron Wyden’s investigation of Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank accused of the biggest money-laundering scheme ever charged in U.S. history, U.S. Treasury officials informed lawmakers that Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently attended a White House lunch with Turkey’s strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Read moreA federal judge approved a $5 million class settlement, with $50,000 in expenses, to JPMorgan Chase Bank employees who complained that the bank gives new fathers only up to two weeks of paid parental leave, but 16 weeks to mothers.
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To fight climate change, the European Investment Bank, the world’s largest development bank, voted Thursday to stop funding fossil fuel projects despite opposition by some countries, most notably Germany.
Read moreSeven months after BB&T and SunTrust announced plans to merge, the Justice Department cleared them a path Friday that requires one of the largest divestitures in a bank merger in the last decade.
Read moreCall it Schrödinger’s prosecution. Attorneys for a bank charged with the biggest money-laundering scheme to Iran ever alleged in a U.S. court, asserted before a federal judge Tuesday that their Turkish state-run client would not recognize the proceedings.
Read moreGermany’s top court on Thursday confirmed the acquittal of several former Deutsche Bank chief executives who had been accused of perjury in the Kirch trial, one of Germany’s most spectacular corporate legal sagas.
Read moreA federal judge refused Wells Fargo Bank’s request for summary judgment on the United Services Automobile Association’s claim that the bank violated its patent on the “automated capture of a digital image of a check for deposit using a mobile device.”
Read moreBallard Partners, the firm dubbed “the Most Powerful Lobbyist in Trump’s Washington” ended its years-long contract with Turkey’s state-run Halkbank last week, the day after that bank’s indictment in a record-breaking money-laundering scheme.
Read moreHalkbank is “now a fugitive” from criminal charges implicating the Turkish state-run bank in a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme to Iran, a federal prosecutor announced at a Tuesday morning court hearing.
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A group of Detroit-area men opened bank accounts to move millions of dollars to Yemen, their war-torn native country. Their crime: They didn’t register as a money-transfer business. Their luck: They drew a sympathetic judge.
Read moreThe leaders of the 189-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister organization the World Bank are laying out their visions for the future, hoping to achieve a world with less extreme poverty and more economic growth.
Read moreTwo years have passed since former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pressed both President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to free a gold trader charged in America’s biggest Iran money-laundering conspiracy to date.
Read moreGerman newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports that Deutsche Bank gave expensive gifts to senior Chinese officials at a time when it was trying to establish itself as a major player in China’s financial industry.
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