US lender accused of &#39;cookie-jar&#39; figures
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America&#39;s biggest mortgage lender was thrown into turmoil yesterday when the industry watchdog accused it of having major accounting problems and doubted the &quot;soundness&quot; of the company.
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Morningstar Inc., the mutual fund and stock research provider, on Friday said it may face U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges over incorrect data it published about a mutual fund.
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NEW YORK - Bank of America Corp. , the second-largest US bank, was sued yesterday by two Massachusetts customers who accused it of deceiving depositors into renewing certificates of deposit at below-market rates.
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Prosecutors indicted a Korean bank and a Belgium-based holding company owned by Lone Star Funds, an American private equity group, on charges of stock price manipulation in connection with Lone StarÂs 2003 acquisition of the bank. Lone StarÂs vice chairman, Ellis Short, and its general counsel, Michael Thomson, already face charges of spreading false information to weaken the stock price of the Korea Exchange BankÂs credit card unit before it was bought by Lone Star. The new charges are against the bank and LSF-KEB Holdings, a paper company based in Brussels that Lone Star set up in 2003 to take over the bank, according to Chae Dong-wook, a senior prosecutor. Officials of the bank and other Lone Star officials declined to comment.
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Financial advisers working for High Street banks are accused by Which? magazine of giving poor mortgage advice.
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The maker of dietary supplements that claim to improve everything from sexuality to memory defrauded thousands of customers and banks of at least $100 million, federal authorities say.
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The US sub-prime loan crisis may push up UK mortgage rates, a former Bank of England adviser warns.
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Freddie Mac, the government-chartered mortgage company that restated earnings by $5 billion, said yesterday that it might be the subject of a civil lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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US authorities have accused a British charity of funding terrorist activities abroad, according to a report.
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Fannie Mae&#39;s federal regulator found the largest US mortgage finance company violated accounting rules, raising ``doubts&#39;&#39; about the validity of earnings.
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New evidence of damage wrought by the U.S. mortgage sector surfaced in the United States and Europe on Wednesday while banks demanded a record amount of cash at a euro zone money market auction.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - New evidence of damage wrought by the U.S. mortgage sector surfaced in the United States and Europe on Wednesday while banks demanded a record amount of cash at a euro zone money market auction.
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Fannie Mae, the biggest source of money for US home mortgages, may have to restate earnings by as much as $9 billion after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it broke accounting rules.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.
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Mortgage lenders have hit back at accusations that they are responsible for the rapid rise in house prices.
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NEW YORK -- US government prosecutors filed charges in one of the biggest insider-trading cases on Wall Street since the 1980s, claiming employees at UBS AG , Morgan Stanley , and Bear Stearns Cos. profited from advance knowledge of mergers and stock picks.
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A US court charges five people over an alleged multi-million dollar scam involving Iraq reconstruction contracts.