Saks Settles With S.E.C. on Overpayments
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Saks did not admit any wrongdoing in the S.E.C. settlement and paid no fine after being accused of improperly collecting payments from suppliers to inflate earnings.
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The Alliance & Leicester bank has apologised for a letter sent  to customers reclaiming overdraft charges.
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Ahold NV , the Dutch grocery operator, and three former top executives have agreed to settle U.S. securities fraud charges related to massive overbooking of profits, the company and U.S. regulators said on Wednesday.
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The embattled student lending giant, reached a settlement over its scuttled $25 billion buyout, ending months of legal fighting.
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Gamco Investors Inc. said it had offered to settle a S.E.C. investigation into mutual fund share trading.
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Global grocery retailer Ahold NV has agreed to a settlement of civil fraud charges over an alleged $1 billion overstatement of earnings in a deal with US regulators that does not fine the company.
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KPMG will pay $10 million -- the largest payment ever by an accounting firm in a Securities and Exchange Commission action -- to settle charges of improper conduct while auditing Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. , the SEC said yesterday.
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KPMG (KPMG.UL: Quote, Profile, Research) will pay $10 million -- the largest payment ever by an accounting firm in a US Securities and Exchange Commission action -- to settle charges of improper conduct while auditing Gemstar-TV
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Ziff Davis - A SCO spokesman says the company has completed its arranged settlement with its former financial backer without fanfare.
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HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK, a  health-care company that is trying to emerge from an accounting  scandal, said on Thursday it agreed to settle for $325 million  federal charges that the company overbilled Medicare.
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Dutch food retailer Ahold and three former top executives have agreed to settle fraud charges related to $1bn overstatement of profits.
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SWS Group Inc.'s  Southwest Securities Inc. subsidiary agreed to pay &#36;10 million to settle charges that managers failed to supervise brokers who had engaged in improper trading of mutual funds, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.
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ERNST &amp; YOUNG, one of the four largest US accounting firms, has agreed to pay $125 million (Â£65 million) to settle claims arising from its audits of a failed Illinois savings bank, American regulators revealed on Christmas Eve.
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The  world's largest insurance group pays $126m in fines as part of a settlement with US regulators over its dealings with two firms.
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AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough must pay damages for overcharging on certain drugs.
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A stock brokerage firm and two mortgage companies have agree to pay a total of more than $420,000 to&#160;settle claims that they had unlicensed software&#160;on their computers, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced Tuesday.
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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.