Ernst &amp; Young to pay $40 million to FDIC
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Ernst &amp; Young LLP will pay $40 million to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and is finishing a settlement to pay $85 million to the Office of Thrift Supervision to settle a case involving
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U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  will have to pay a $235 million break-up fee, roughly 1 percent of the deal price, to end a proposed deal to be acquired by affiliates of Lehman Brothers  and Tishman Speyer, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday.
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Fidelity National Financial Inc. (NYSE: FNF) has reached an agreement to purchase an Atlanta technology company for nearly $400 million, a transaction large enough to cause Fidelity to delay the initial public
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Investment banks Goldman Sachs Group  Inc. GS.N and Morgan Stanley MWD.N have agreed to pay about  $40 million each to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission allegations of misconduct in their handling of  initial public stock offerings, sources familiar with the  matter said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, December 31  - According to a California court ruling, Bank of America Corp (BAC.NYS) would have to pay $284 million to customers who were charged overdraft fees on accounts containing customer social security deposits.
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IBM said Wednesday it had agreed to pay $320 million to its employees to settle in part a class-action lawsuit over its pension plan in a case that will affect millions of workers at many companies and nonprofits.
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RS Investment Management agreed to pay $30 million to settled allegations it allowed &quot;excessive&quot; market timing in its mutual funds, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
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(Corrects dollar amount in first paragraph from $10 million to $40 million)
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Gold Banc Corp., a banking company with operations in four states, has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve claims that it charged excessive fees and inflated interest rates on federally guaranteed agricultural loans, the US Attorney&#39;s office said Friday.
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International Business Machines (IBM) has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to pensions, and will take a charge of $320 million in the current quarter, the technology company said Wednesday.
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Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal announced plans to pay &#36;4.5 billion in cash and stock for U.S. steelmaker International Steel Group Inc., which had been cobbled together by onetime investment banker Wilbur L. Ross Jr. from mills whose parents landed in bankrupcty court.
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IBM said yesterday that it had agreed to pay $320 million to current and former employees to settle in part a class-action lawsuit over its pension plan in a case that may affect millions
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U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  will have to pay a $235 million break-up fee plus expenses to end a proposed deal to be acquired by affiliates of Lehman Brothers  and Tishman Speyer for a total of $22.2 billion, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday.
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Two companies that manage and market Franklin Templeton mutual funds have agreed to pay a total of $20 million to settle federal regulators' charges that they failed to disclose their use of fund assets to pay brokerages for steering customers to the funds.
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Time Warner Inc. and other  defendants including America Online and Ernst &amp; Young have  agreed to pay &#36;23 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of  defrauding pension and investment funds in Pennsylvania, the  state&#039;s Attorney General said on Thursday.
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country's largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank
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New York City&#39;s former mayor is putting together an investment banking firm to advise companies on financial transactions. Giuliani said his private consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, will buy Ernst and Young&#39;s investment-banking arm as part of the deal.