U.S. wraps up probe of Macau bank assets
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The United States is wrapping up its investigation of a Macau bank that holds $24 million in North Korean assets, a development that could lead to the release of some of the funds.
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Massachusetts ordered two prominent Wall Street financial firms on Tuesday to provide information on their subprime research in the first probe by a U.S. state into possible conflicts of interest over the troubled mortgage lenders.
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Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. will pay $25,000 to settle a probe of how one of its laptop computers went missing with the personal data of thousands of Massachusetts residents, Secretary of State William F. Galvin said yesterday.
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BOSTON -- An investigation of IBM Corp. by the Securities and Exchange Commission ended Tuesday without penalty, although the government found that the technology company misled analysts about employee stock-option expenses in 2005.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible fraud or insider trading violations in connection with loans made to risky borrowers, and investments spun off of those loans.
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AÂ flurry of raids and arrests in China over the last two weeks have ended what is estimated to be the world's largestÂ piracyÂ syndicate in operation for more than six years.
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The US attorney&#39;s office in the District is conducting a criminal investigation related to Allied Capital Corp.&#39;s investment in its single largest holding, a New York small-business lender, Allied said yesterday.
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Bear Stearns Cos  is being investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge funds that collapsed last summer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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Fannie Mae, the US largest government-ruled mortgage lender, sees the continuation of the investigation on possible accounting violations and possible next weekâs testimony of its former employee at a Congressional hearing.
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US prosecutors are investigating whether the wife of Enron&#39;s former chairman, Kenneth Lay, engaged in insider trading in selling shares of the company shortly before it collapsed into bankruptcy, people involved in the case said Tuesday.
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The SEC is investigating possible profiteering by U.S. companies operating in the developing country with a history of corruption.
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CHINA Aviation Oil Singapore Corp (CAO), which revealed a US$550 million ($900 million) trading loss earlier in the week, is being probed by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), which investigates white-collar crime.
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Bank of America said it was cooperating with a Justice Department investigation into bidding practices in the municipal bond business in exchange for leniency.
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The chief of Beijing-backed China Aviation Oil&#39;s (CAO) Singapore unit has agreed to return to Singapore this week to face investigators in the city-state&#39;s biggest financial scandal since the 1995 fall of Barings Bank, company
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Heightened scrutiny of banking transactions by the United States since the September 11 attacks has led European and Canadian banks to curtail dealings with Cuba, bankers and businesses say.
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According to a report by the US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Infobank of Belarus has been involved in money laundering using Cayman companies.
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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.