KPMG fined record $10m over Gemstar
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KPMG has received the largest audit fine in the history of the US Securities and Exchange Commission for its role in a company that cost Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corporation $6billion (Â£3.
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KPMG International, the world&#39;s No. 4 accounting firm, will pay $115 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over claims it helped Lernout &amp; Hauspie Speech Products NV artificially inflate sales for more than two years.
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Â£250m scam Following raids and ten arrests yesterday, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs is charging nine people with cheating the public revenue.â¦
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Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier have each been fined 1m euros ($1.3m; Â£690,000) by French regulators.
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In today&#39;s fines, Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. was hit with the second largest, at US$1.6 million, followed by American Express Financial Advisors, at $700,000.
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French bank Societe Generale has lost $10bn, the bulk of which was lost through fraud by a trader.
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KPMG KPMG.UL will pay $10 million  -- the largest payment ever by an accounting firm in a U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission action -- to settle charges  of improper conduct while auditing Gemstar-TV Guide  International Inc. GMST.O, the SEC said on Wednesday.
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The company that ran phone competitions for GMTV is fined a record Â£250,000 after viewers lost an estimated Â£20m.
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Already having set a single-season record for prizemoney, he became the game&#39;s first $10m man as the $900,000 first prize pushed his 2004 earnings to $10.
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The Financial Services Authority has hit oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group with a 17 million pound fine over its misstatement of its proven reserves.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K.'s financial services regulator has levied a heavy fine against the nation's largest building society over a stolen laptop containing confidential customer information. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined Nationwide Building Society Â£980,000 ($1.9 million) for "failing to have effective systems and controls to manage its information security risks," the regulator said in a statement. Nationwide, which has about 11 million customers, did not realize the laptop contained customer information and waited three weeks before starting an investigation, the FSA said. The laptop was stolen from an employee's home during a burglary in August 2006, Nationwide said in a statement. The building society believes the thief was after the laptop itself rather than the information on its hard drive. The data was for marketing purposes and did not contain any PIN numbers, passwords, or account balance information, Nationwide said. Nationwide informed its customers of the problem and no losses were reported, it said. It also commissioned a review of its information security, the FSA said. (A building society is a type of cooperative financial institution, similar to a credit union in the U.S.)
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A company that illegally provided patients â in particular, athletes â with human growth hormone agreed Tuesday to pay a $10.5 million fine.
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Supermarkets could face multi-million pound fines.
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Greek phone taps Ericsson has been hit with a â¬7.36m ($10m) fine for its role in tapping mobile phones belonging to the Greek prime minister and members of his Cabinet.â¦
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Accounting giant KMPG LLP will pay $10 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of improper conduct in the firm&#39;s audit of the financial statements of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.
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The company behind the Richard and Judy TV quiz phone-in scandal is fined Â£150,000 by premium rate services regulator Icstis.
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The MBNA bank has warned customers they face a Â£10 fine if they leave a positive balance on their credit card.