Europe's central banks caught in US spy scandal
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Called to account over post-9/11 snooping The European Central Bank (ECB) knew the US was conducting a secret probe of the world's private financial records without official oversight but failed to tell privacy authorities.â¦
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Privacy chiefs impose deadline Privacy chiefs have given Europe's banks a September deadline for alerting customers that their financial transactions could be tracked by US security agencies. Customers must be warned that even transactions within Europe could be monitored, they said.â¦
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Swiss bank UBSâs string of stinging financial disclosures is  symptomatic of how the subprime drama has unfolded in Europe and is stoking fears of more shocks to come.
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The mounting political scandal over how J&#201;rome Kerviel pulled off the biggest scam in banking history is only just beginning
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German regulators say they've found evidence that a large bond trade last year by Citigroup Inc., the world's largest financial institution, resulted in market manipulation, according to a published report.
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By James Daley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. Three former NatWest bankers who are fighting extradition to the US over their alleged involvement in a Â£4m fraud linked to the collapse of Enron
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The extent of Europe's  infection from the U.S. subprime mortgage virus is becoming  clearer, even as the European Central Bank faces down calls for  it to follow U.S. and UK counterparts by cutting interest  rates.
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Swift told to retreat all but US data The central banks of China and Russia have joined private companies in calling on Swift, the international financial intermediary, to pull all non-US data from America, The Register has learned.â¦
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European stocks are under pressure on fears that central banks will not follow the US in slashing interest rates.
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Federal authorities exposed one of the most far-reaching insider trading schemes on Wall Street in decades.
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British regulators Wednesday began investigating unusual trading activity by Citigroup Inc. in European government bond and bond derivative markets.
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Europe has seen a 200 per cent increase in new bond issuance since the US Federal Reserve kick-started the market with aggressive interest rate cuts last week.
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'We've written some letters' British banks have responded to European privacy watchdogs, who claim they broke the law by letting US anti-terror investigators have access to the details of their customers' international financial transactions.â¦
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An investment bank in Estonia, Lohmus Haavel & Viisemann, and a former worker agreed to pay $15 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they had made illegal trades based on information from stolen news releases. The former employee, Oliver Peek, will forfeit $13 million in profit and will pay a $1.35 million fine. The bank will pay a $650,000 penalty, the S.E.C. said. They neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the sanctions. The S.E.C.âs lawsuit accused Lohmus Haavel, which is based in Tallinn, of using a computer program to retrieve information on more than 200 United States companies from Business Wireâs secure Web site before announcements were made public from January to November 2005.
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The European Central Bank said Monday that a fine-tuning operation had allowed it to drain 36.6 billion dollars (52.8 billion dollars) from eurozone money markets.
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Highlights of major central banks' communication strategies: EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
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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.