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Dutch Banking Giant ING Agrees to €775 Million Settlement
In a significant move on September 11, 2018, it was disclosed that ING Groep NV, a renowned Dutch…
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NAB Slammed for Charging Fees to Deceased Customers and Others
On February 4, 2019, a Royal Commission report revealed that the National Australia Bank (NAB) had been charging…
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Société Générale Agrees to Pay $1.34 Billion Settlement to US Authorities
Under the scrutiny of financial regulators worldwide, Société Générale, a prominent French banking institution and the nation’s third-largest…
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ANZ paid $50 million over BBSW rigging; court papers later implicated its CEO
On June 4, 2018, it was reported that the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) had…
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U.S. Bancorp Agrees to $613 Million Settlement Over Compliance Issues
In February 2018, U.S. Bancorp entered into a $613 million settlement with federal authorities, resolving allegations that the…
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Paradise Papers Leak in 2017 Exposed the Scale of the Offshore Empire
By 2020, the Paradise Papers leak had settled into a different kind of crisis for Appleby. Not the…
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HSBC Ties to Gupta Family Spark Corruption Concerns Again
Nearly nine years have passed since HSBC became entangled in allegations surrounding its correspondent-banking ties to the Gupta…
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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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Currency Rigging Scandal: Record Fines and the Investor Lawsuit That Followed
In June 2013, Bloomberg News published an investigation that exposed a long‑standing scheme to rig the world’s foreign‑exchange…
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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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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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