By Stephanie Forshee | May 17, 2017
CFTC acting chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo introduced a new program for financial technology companies on Wednesday.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 17, 2017
A New Jersey congressman is under fire for singling out a bank's lawyer, based on her political affiliations, in a letter to her boss—apparently leading to her departure.
By Mike Scarcella | May 17, 2017
A senior U.S. national bank inspector punished in the aftermath of the Wells Fargo sham-accounts scandal sued federal banking regulators on Tuesday for information about their investigation of him. The examiner, Bradley Linskens, who joined the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1993, filed the public-records lawsuit in Washington federal district court.
By Andrew Denney | May 16, 2017
Holding the Jordan-based Arab Bank liable for damages caused to the victims of terror attacks could deal a blow to legitimate banking operations in the Middle East and could negatively affect American interests in the region, an attorney for the bank argued Tuesday before a federal appeals court.
By Max Mitchell | May 16, 2017
Philadelphia has sued Wells Fargo, alleging the bank violated the Fair Housing Act by targeting minority borrowers with high-risk and high-interest loans. The lawsuit is the first that a city has lodged against a financial institution since a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling established that municipalities have standing to sue banks over allegedly discriminatory lending practices.
By Andrew Denney | May 15, 2017
A Manhattan federal judge has certified a class to bring suit against an investment management firm accused of misleading the investing public with trumped-up performance data for its trading strategy.
By Brian Baxter | May 12, 2017
In the largest U.S. bank failure since 2010, New Orleans-based First NBC Bank Holding Co. filed for Chapter 11 protection in its home city Thursday. The bank, which went public in 2013, saw two top Am Law 100 firms listed among its 20 largest unsecured creditors.
By Ben Hancock | May 11, 2017
With a little sleuthing, it's not hard to see Gerchen Keller's fingerprints on trial that pit Irell & Manella and Boies Schiller lawyers against a team from Wilmer.
By Melanie Waddell | May 11, 2017
Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta has made halting the fiduciary rule's June 9 compliance date as a top priority, with published reports saying…
By Greg Land | May 10, 2017
A man involved in a dispute over his efforts to collect about $160,000 by garnishing his debtor's retirement payments must wait until another lawyer—who formerly represented the debtor—has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees.
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