Swiss bank regulator to probe UBS: report
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Switzerland's banking regulator will investigate how UBS  ran up losses in the credit crisis requiring billions of dollars of writedowns, a spokesman for the body was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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U.S. regulators, led by the Securities  and Exchange Commission, are probing how financial firms priced  mortgage securities on their books and whether they should have  told investors earlier about the declining value of those  securities, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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New York prosecutors are investigating whether Wall Street banks withheld information about the risks stemming from subprime loan-linked investments, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Transatlantic stock market operator NYSE Euronext has begun an investigation into the trading in shares in Dutch bank ABN Amro that surrounded an announcement that ABN was a takeover target of British bank Barclays, ABN said Tuesday.
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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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Investigators working on a massive tax probe in Germany have details of conversations between suspects and the Liechtenstein bank allegedly involved, a press report said on Wednesday.
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A major bank in Chile reported yesterday that U.S.  regulators are investigating whether its two branches in the United States have complied with anti-money-laundering laws.
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Swiss banking giant UBS said on Wednesday it would post a full-year loss of 4.4 billion Swiss francs (3.5 billion dollars, 2.75 billion euros) for 2007 due to its exposure to the US subprime crisis.
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Bank of New York Co. Tuesday said regulators are looking into mutual-fund transactions that were cleared by the company's Pershing LLC unit.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Bear Stearns Cos&#39; (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) municipal bond offering practices, according to a filing from the US investment bank.
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Business & money: Swiss bank takes hit in fourth quarter but substantially less affected by sub-prime crisis than rival UBS
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The U.S. Justice Department has  begun a criminal investigation into possible wrongdoing at  Riggs Bank, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a  letter from the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to  federal bank regulators.
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Swiss banking giant UBS launched a 15 billion Swiss franc (9.4 billion euros, 12.3 billion dollars) share buyback scheme on Thursday, covering up to 10 percent of its capital.
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Milan prosecutors are looking at a stream of Parmalat transactions carried out by Deutsche Bank in the days before its collapse.
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Regulators plan to probe how the major credit-rating agencies are paid and their independence from Wall Street firms that issue bonds, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Friday.
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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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ZURICH, Feb. 13  â The Swiss bank UBS said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit declined 47 percent, to 3.41 billion francs ($2.73 billion), from the year-earlier period, which benefited from the sale of assets.