Share probe begins at German bank
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A formal investigation is launched into seven former and current board members at German state-owned bank WestLB.
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European regulators are to investigate whether German postal firm Deutsche Post received illegal state aid.
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Swiss bank UBSâs string of stinging financial disclosures is symptomatic of how the subprime drama has unfolded in Europe and is stoking fears of more shocks to come.
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The US stock market watchdog has asked German justice officials for help probing possible corruption at engineering group Siemens, a spokesman for the federal justice office told AFP on Wednesday.
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Germany's financial watchdog said on  Thursday it was looking into recent trading by U.S. financial  services group Citigroup C.N in European government bond and  derivative markets, but had not started a formal probe.
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By Hugh Williamson in Berlin and Patrick Jenkins in Frankfurt. Simmering tensions between the German government and the country&#39;s central bank boiled over into a full-scale row last night after Hans Eichel, finance
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Wary financial markets awaited a public appearance by European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet on Monday after a German bank holed by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was sold.
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Prosecutors in DÃ¼sseldorf are investigating seven current and former executives of WestLB, a bank owned by the German government, a spokesman said.
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The G8 group of leading industrial nations is to study whether hedge funds pose a risk, says Germany.
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IKB , the German bank which nearly went bust after its subprime investments crashed, is searching for up to 2 billion euros to stay afloat, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
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France and Germany's market watchdogs say they are looking into Citigroup bond trades already under scrutiny in the UK.
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Employee shareholders at Societe Generale said Wednesday they had started legal action following a multi-billion-euro rogue trader scandal at the French bank.
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Swiss reinsurer Converium has confirmed in a regulatory filing that it is facing a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission into possible insider trading of its stock ahead of a profit warning in July.
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Regulators have opened an investigation into KPMG&#39;s auditing of Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance company which faces a possible $9bn restatement after violating US accounting rules.
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Four big banks face a U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission probe of their auction-rate bond  operations, a securities filing shows.
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The US Department of Justice has launched its own investigation into the allegations of widespread bribery and embezzlement at Siemens, already being probed by the German authorities.
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The public owners of the two biggest German public sector banks have begun talks that could lead to a new banking giant in Europe, press reports said Monday.