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Major US Bank Pays $13,500,000 Settlement After Facing Federal Investigation on Illegal and Discriminatory Practices

The US Justice Department and the state of North Carolina are settling with a major US bank to resolve allegations…

February 11, 2024

World’s Largest Bank To Pay $32,400,000 for Violating Bank Secrecy Act, Backdating Documents and Exposing Confidential Information

The Federal Reserve and New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) just announced a multi million-dollar settlement with a Beijing-based…

January 22, 2024

US Banking Giant Paying $249,000,000 Fine for Abusing Markets, Reaping Millions From Confidential Information

A US banking giant has agreed to pay a quarter of a billion dollars for promising confidentiality to clients –…

January 19, 2024

World’s Ninth-Largest Bank Paying $658,000,000 Settlement After Failing To Reveal Risk of Mortgages

French banking giant BNP Paribas has reached a $658 million settlement with regulators to compensate customers who were not properly…

January 13, 2024

US Banking Giant To Pay $1,000,000,000 Settlement Over Scandal That Cost Customers ‘Billions of Dollars in Financial Harm’

US banking giant Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit connected to illegal practices…

May 18, 2023

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Predicts One Blockchain Use Case Will Take Over Traditional Finance

FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried thinks one primary crypto use case will push the digital asset sector into the world…

October 12, 2022

$3,000,000,000 Worth of Bitcoin (BTC) Forfeited to US Government By Former Silk Road Founder

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is forfeiting billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets to the…

April 25, 2022

Crypto Exchange BitMEX Reaches $100,000,000 Settlement With CFTC and FinCEN

Crypto derivatives platform BitMEX says it has agreed to pay $100 million to resolve charges that were filed by US…

August 12, 2021