Bear Stearns to be sued over subprime funds: CNBC
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Investors in Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large bets on risky mortgages are planning to sue the company as early as Monday, television channel CNBC reported on Friday.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , the biggest broker for US hedge funds, has offered to provide $1.5 billion in loans to help rescue a money-losing fund run by its asset management unit, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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A U.S. real estate fund has sued HSBC Holdings  alleging the British bank's U.S. mortgage trading operation took advantage of the credit crisis to profit at the expense of the fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Bear Stearns dethrones asset-management head as subprime losses rock the firm.
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Bear Stearns Cos, the U.S.  investment bank battered by slumping mortgage markets, and  China's CITIC Securities Co have agreed to swap stakes in each  other and form a broad alliance, the firms said on Monday.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether a Bear Stearns Co Inc  fund manager improperly  withdrew his own money from a fund while making rosy forecasts  about the prospect of the portfolio, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Tuesday.
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Some aggrieved investors are turning  to lawyers to pursue possible legal claims stemming from losses  at two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were  virtually wiped out from large, illiquid bets on risky  mortgages.
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LONDON, August 19 (New Ratings)  Parmalat Finanziaria SpA (PAF.FSE) announced today that the company has filed a lawsuit against Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), seeking approximately 250 million in claims plus interest from the financial service ...
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the possibility of more write-downs and chance of legal entanglements from the subprime mortgage crisis could sideline suitors for now, analysts said on Tuesday.
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Citigroup Inc. was sued by Bank of New York Co. over the sale of securities linked to Enron&#39;s creditworthiness, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, confirms it may face legal action from US federal regulators for possible breaches of securities law.
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Bear Stearns said Friday that it would provide a loan of up to $3.2 billion to a hedge fund operated by its asset-management business, in an effort to placate lenders and investors.
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NEW YORK - State Street Corp. , the largest US money manager for institutions, was sued by Unisystems Inc. for investing bond funds in high-risk mortgage-backed securities, at least the second such lawsuit filed by a client this month.
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Basis Yield Alpha Fund, a hedge fund specializing in corporate and structured credit, on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States amid mounting losses from U.S. subprime mortgage assets, court papers show.
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Investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. , one of the nation's largest mortgage bond underwriters, said on Thursday quarterly earnings fell by a third as trouble in the mortgage market hurt bond trading revenue and it wrote down assets.
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U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday as growing concerns about the subprime mortgage market dragged down shares of Bear Stearns Cos.  and Goldman Sachs Group .
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc  posted a much bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, capping a fiscal year when the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank took a beating on bad bets on risky subprime mortgages.