A U.S. housing regulator urged a federal judge on Monday to award it $1.1 billion due to false claims made about "crap" mortgages underlying securities sold by Nomura Holdings Inc to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.
State-appointed managers at Andorra's Banca Privada d'Andorra (BPA) have capped cash withdrawals in an attempt to contain the damage from U.S. allegations the bank laundered money for international criminal gangs.
Activist hedge fund manager Joseph Stilwell and his Stilwell Value LLC will pay more than $589,000 to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they failed to properly disclose loans made among funds that the firm controlled.
An Australian foreign exchange trader who used confidential economic data to make dozens of illegal trades was sentenced to seven years and three months in jail on Tuesday, with a judge declaring it the country's worst-ever case of insider trading.
