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The Aftermath of LIBOR and Penny-Shaving Attacks

12/08/2015(0)
Anyone remember the LIBOR scandal from back in spring 2008? A trader for UBS Group and Citigroup named Tom Hayes was just sentenced by a British court to 14 years imprisonment for his role as ... Read More
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Bitcoins lost in Mt. Gox debacle ‘not subject to ownership’ claims: Tokyo court

07/08/2015(0)
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a man seeking repayment for bitcoins he kept in an account at the bankrupt exchange Mt. Gox Co., with ... Read More
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Goldman tentatively agrees to pay $270 million to settle lawsuit by investors

04/08/2015(0)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has tentatively agreed to pay about $270 million to settle a lawsuit by investors, according to a source familiar with the matter. Pension funds led ... Read More
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Former Libor ‘Ringmaster’ Hayes Gets 14 Years for Libor Rigging

04/08/2015(0)
Former UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc. trader Tom Hayes, the first person to stand trial for manipulating Libor, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found ... Read More
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Google to defy French ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling

31/07/2015(0)
Google is to defy France’s ruling that the “right to be forgotten” should be applied globally and not just in Europe. Last month, the French privacy watchdog, CNIL, ordered ... Read More
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Morgan Stanley to pay more than $2.3 million to a group of investors for losses

29/07/2015(0)
Firm accused of unauthorized trading and other misdeeds by brokers in Jackson, Miss.-area branch An arbitration panel ordered Morgan Stanley to pay more than $2.3 million to a group of investors ... Read More
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7 bitcoin-related court cases

24/07/2015(0)
Bitcoin is back in the headlines again this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It surfaced yesterday that two operators of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx were being charged by ... Read More
Euronext

Euronext Wins Court Case VS. TOM and Binckbank

23/07/2015(0)
Euronext welcomes the verdict by the District Court in the Hague, the Netherlands, in the proceedings on the merits against TOM and BinckBank, which upheld Euronext’s claim that TOM ... Read More
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IRS Probes Singapore Asset Manager for accepting transfers from undeclared Swiss accounts

20/07/2015(0)
First came Switzerland. Now the Internal Revenue Service has a new target: Singapore Criminal investigators at the IRS are probing whether a Singapore asset-management firm accepted transfers from undeclared ... Read More
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Banks face new legal action over forex manipulation

15/07/2015(0)
After fines totalling many billions of pounds from UK and US regulators, a new threat is about to hit the major banks found guilty of manipulating the foreign exchange ... Read More
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