August 8, 2024
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 …
May 22, 2024
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., which owns the New York Stock Exchange, agreed to pay $10 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that the exchange giant failed to immediately tell the SEC about a hack of its systems in 2021. …
January 16, 2024
Morgan Stanley is close to an agreement to pay $200 million to $300 million to resolve a yearslong US investigation into its employees’ handling of stock sales big enough to move markets, a probe that rattled major clients and reverberated …
October 31, 2023
NEW YORK –– The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying they defrauded investors by hiding cybersecurity weaknesses during a massive hack targeting the U.S. government. The SEC …
November 29, 2022
Janice Shell likes to sniff out fraud. An art historian by training, she once spent her days digging through Renaissance archives in Italy. Now 74, retired and living in suburban Philadelphia, she pores over financial filings instead. She hunts for …
November 10, 2022
SAN DIEGO — New rules proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on cybersecurity and climate impact disclosures may generate more lawsuits that will generate claims against directors & officers policies, panelists said Wednesday during the Professional Liability Underwriting …
November 4, 2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recommended an enforcement action against SolarWinds Corp. over its public statements on cybersecurity and procedures governing such disclosures, the software firm said on Thursday. The Austin, Texas-based company also said in a filing …
November 2, 2022
CVS Health Corp., Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc. have agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state, local and tribal government lawsuits accusing the pharmacy chains of mishandling opioid painkillers. CVS said Wednesday it …
May 17, 2022
Germany’s Allianz agreed to pay more than $6 billion and its US asset management unit will plead guilty to criminal securities fraud over the collapse of its Structured Alpha funds early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Allianz’s settlements with the U.S. …
April 28, 2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday sued Brazilian miner Vale SA for allegedly making false and misleading disclosures about the safety of its dams ahead of a 2019 disaster that killed 270 people. Beginning in 2016, Vale manipulated …