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Commonwealth Bank offers record $700m fine over 53,000 suspect transactions
On August 7, 2017, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, one of the country’s largest financial institutions, is confronting…
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Wells Fargo Fined $185M for Millions of Fake Accounts
America, September 9, 2016 — infopulsetoday.com — For thousands of Wells Fargo customers, the bank card that arrived…
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Wells Fargo Fined $185M for Fake Accounts
On September 9, 2016, it was revealed that Wells Fargo, one of the largest banks in the United…
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Standard Bank to Pay $32.6m After Alleged Tanzania Bribery
Standard Bank, the largest lender in Africa by assets, has entered into a deferred-prosecution agreement with UK regulators…
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Standard Bank Pays Over $32 Million in UK’s First Deferred Prosecution Agreement
On this day, December 5, 2015, it has been reported that Standard Bank, the largest bank in Africa…
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Gabriel Weinberg Built DuckDuckGo as a Privacy Search Engine
PHILADELPHIA, July 8 — The figure that matters: Gabriel Weinberg’s net worth sits at an estimated $100 million,…
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HSBC Embroiled in Massive Tax Evasion Scandal Eleven Years Ago
More than a decade has passed since HSBC was discovered operating tax‑evasion accounts for thousands of affluent clients…
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HSBC Swiss Leaks Fallout Costs Bank Clients 10 Years On
The fallout from HSBC’s 2015 Swiss Leaks scandal still shadows the bank and its clients a decade on.…
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Portugal Splits Banco Espirito Santo in Two After Hidden Debts Surface
The troubles of Banco Espírito Santo did not start with the central bank’s action on August 3, 2014;…
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Banco Espirito Santo Reborn as Novo Banco After Record 3.58 Billion Euro Loss
On 3 August 2014, Banco de Portugal exercised a resolution measure that divided Banco Espírito Santo (BES)—the nation’s…
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BNP Paribas Pleads Guilty to Sanctions Violations
On this day, July 4, 2014, French multinational bank BNP Paribas has agreed to a guilty plea for…
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Howard Schultz: A Career Retrospective
“When I walked in this store for the first time,” Howard Schultz later said of the original Starbucks…
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Citigroup Faces Probes Over $400 Million Banamex Loan Fraud
For Citigroup, the $400 million fraud at its Mexican subsidiary Banamex is not just a one-time embarrassment. It…
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JPMorgan Chase to Pay $2.6 Billion Over Failures to Flag Madoff
January 8, 2014 — The fine is $2.6 billion. That number is now fixed in the record. JPMorgan…
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JPMorgan Fined $2.6 Billion Over Madoff Ponzi Scheme Role
On January 8, 2014, regulators ordered JPMorgan Chase to pay a $2.6 billion civil penalty for its role…
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Rabobank Fined $1.07 Billion Over Libor Rate Rigging, CEO Quits
On November 3, 2013, authorities announced that Rabobank has agreed to pay a total of $1.07 billion in…
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UBS Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion in LIBOR Scandal Penalties
The $1.5 billion in penalties that UBS agreed to pay on December 19, 2012, highlight fundamental weaknesses in…
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UBS Pays $1.5 Billion in LIBOR Rigging Penalties
On December 19, 2012, UBS agreed to pay $1.5 billion in penalties to regulators in the United States,…
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HSBC Paid $1.9 Billion for Violating US Sanctions in 2012 Deal
Roughly 14 years ago, the global banking sector was shaken by the revelation that HSBC had breached U.S.…
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Coffees, Bollinger and a Fiddled Number: The Libor Scandal Revisited
Nearly a dozen years have passed since HSBC was implicated in the global LIBOR-rigging scandal, an episode that…
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Barclays Fined £290 Million Over Libor Manipulation Scandal
Barclays Hit with £290 Million Fine Over Libor Manipulation On July 4, 2012, financial authorities announced that Barclays…
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Barclays Fined £290M for Libor Manipulation
London, July 4, 2012 — infopulsetoday.com — Libor is a number. A single, small number — a fraction…
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Mark-to-Market Accounting Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis
WASHINGTON, July 21 — Mark-to-market accounting, the practice of valuing assets and liabilities at current market prices, remains…
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Netflix grew from a DVD-by-mail service into a global streaming and studio player
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., July 19 — From a mailroom in this coastal town to the command center of…
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