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US judge says Trump wants CFPB shut down quickly
The federal judge who temporarily blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says Trump himself wants the agency ... (more story)
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Other prosecutors can fill US bribery void, senior French official says
US moves to scale back international bribery investigations are a cause for concern, but other agencies could step up to fill the void, according to Caroline Génin,... (more story)
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Four years in, Europe’s ‘youngster’ prosecutor’s office EPPO faces challenges
With more than 2,500 active investigations linked to damage worth 24 billion euros, the European Public Prosecutor's Office has come a long way since 2020, when sta... (more story)
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Two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions welcomed a US government decision yesterday to drop the corruption charges against them. In e-mailed statements sent to MLex after the US federal judge f... (more story)
A US freeze on enforcement of big bribery cases isn’t likely to be “forever,” the head of the UK's white-collar crime prosecutor has said, warning companies that his agency still has an “appetite” to go after ... (more story)
US federal prosecutors are dropping bribery charges against two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, citing a “recent assessment” of the case under President Donald Trump’s executive order paus... (more story)
Former Barclays boss Jes Staley made false claims about his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a UK court was told today as closing arguments began in a month-long trial. Staley is fighting... (more story)
A former non-executive director at collapsed Wyelands Bank was handed a fine of 72,000 pounds by the UK prudential watchdog for breaches of conduct rules between 2017 and 2020. Last month, audit company PwC ha... (more story)
Two Deutsche Bank units have been fined 25 million euros ($27 million) by German prosecutors over allegations of "greenwashing" financial products. Today's fine follows similar action taken against one of the ... (more story)
Anzhelika Khan, the wife of a billionaire Ukrainian-Russian business tycoon, has lodged a bid to overturn her sanctions designation at the UK’s top court.
Two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions have asked for an additional two-week adjournment of their corruption trial. The request for the delay appears to have been made in a letter filed Friday... (more story)
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An executive order from President Donald Trump pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is set to end a legal saga for two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions who were due to fa... (more story)
After a series of victories for the payments industry in its fight for a less constrictive regulatory regime, attention is now likely to turn to an often-overlooked provision in the UK’s fraud-reimbursement ru... (more story)
Concerns that a move to abolish the UK’s dedicated payments regulator could result in less focus on payments are “absolutely reasonable,” a senior official from that regulator has said. “If we don’t think abou... (more story)
With more than 2,500 active investigations linked to damage worth 24 billion euros, the European Public Prosecutor's Office has come a long way since 2020, when staff sat at their desks without computers. But ... (more story)
A new interim rule from the US Treasury Department narrowing the scope of an anti-money laundering law could significantly harm efforts to combat financial crime, experts said. The new rule formalizes changes... (more story)
News that Europe’s top foreign-bribery prosecutors will band together and collaborate more closely will inevitably be seen as a response to a US retreat from enforcement, even though they say it has been years... (more story)
The Canadian government has moved up its timeline for changes to its anti-money laundering regulatory regime, bringing them into force on April 1 – six months earlier than originally proposed. Companies subjec... (more story)
US cybersecurity defenders in the private sector remain on alert for Russian threats even as the federal workforce has been hit with staff reductions and reports indicate national agencies may be softening on the issue.