New Mexico said on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against Snapchat owner Snap Inc. alleging that the messaging app’s policies and design features facilitate the sharing of child sexual exploitation material. The lawsuit brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul …
Moody’s Corp., S&P Global Inc. and Fitch Ratings Inc. will pay a combined $48 million over allegations that the credit-rating companies failed to keep proper electronic communications — the latest fallout from US regulators’ so-called WhatsApp investigations. The Securities and …
Nordea Bank agreed to pay a $35 million civil fine to settle charges by a top New York regulator that the Finland-listed bank failed to properly police money laundering and other criminal activities, including matters uncovered in the Panama Papers …
Goldman Sachs, German industrial company BASF and two other banks agreed to pay $20 million to settle a nearly decade-old antitrust lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to suppress platinum and palladium prices. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled with crypto lending platform Abra after charging the startup with selling unregistered securities to consumers and operating as an unregistered investment company. Plutus Lending LLC, doing business as Abra, agreed to settle …
Citigroup alleges that a former managing director suing the bank was fired for performance reasons, rather than for what she said were attempts by the bank to give regulators false information. On Thursday, the bank responded to a lawsuit filed …
Cryptocurrency platform Kraken must face a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing it of operating an unregistered securities exchange, a judge ruled. “The SEC has plausibly alleged that at least some of the cryptocurrency transactions that Kraken facilitates on …
Another group of broker-dealer and investment advisers have agreed to pay over $470 million to U.S. regulators to settle civil charges they violated recordkeeping rules, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in statements on …
A U.S. court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7 billion in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday. FTX drew customers in with “an illusion that it was a safe and secure …
Ripple Labs Inc. was ordered by a federal judge to pay a civil penalty of $125 million for selling its XRP token to institutional investors, a fraction of what U.S. regulators had sought in a lawsuit against the company. The …