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Amazon Sued Over Billing for App Store Purchases

11/07/2014(0)
Settling isn’t the Amazon way, whether the dispute is with book publishers or the federal government. The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed a suit in a Federal District ... Read More
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Boehner Says Obama Lawsuit Will Focus on Health Law

11/07/2014(0)
Speaker John A. Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama will focus on changes to the health care law that Mr. Boehner says should have been left to Congress, according to ... Read More
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State Street Agrees to Settle Forex Fee Suit for $60 Mln

10/07/2014(0)
State Street Corp. (STT) agreed to pay $60 million to settle investor claims it inflated revenue by overcharging clients for foreign-exchange services, in a pact that resolves almost four ... Read More
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China Said to Probe Alleged Bank of China Money Laundering

10/07/2014(0)
China’s central bank and currency regulator are investigating a state media report that alleged Bank of China Ltd. broke rules on transferring money overseas, two government officials familiar with ... Read More
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Switzerland: Former Banker Is Charged

10/07/2014(0)
A Swiss prosecutor brought charges on Wednesday against Rudolf Elmer, a former banker in the Cayman Islands with the Swiss bank Julius Baer, saying he handed over confidential data ... Read More
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Banks face intensified sanctions probes in U.S.

10/07/2014(0)
Following BNP Paribas’ record $8.9 billion in penalties for violating U.S. economic sanctions, federal and state authorities are intensifying investigations of other foreign banks over signs of similar infractions. ... Read More
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BNP pleads guilty for second time in $9 billion U.S. sanctions accord

10/07/2014(0)
BNP Paribas, for the second time in nine days, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions, as part of a nearly $9 billion settlement in which ... Read More
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Apple loses China patent case, separate suit against Apple continues

09/07/2014(0)
A Beijing court has ruled against Apple Inc by upholding the validity of a patent held by a Chinese company, clearing the way for the Chinese company to continue ... Read More
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Citigroup may pay $7 billion to resolve U.S. mortgage probes

09/07/2014(0)
Citigroup Inc is close to paying about $7 billion to resolve a U.S. probe into whether it defrauded investors on billions of dollars worth of mortgage securities in the ... Read More
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Gibraltar lawyers jailed over £40m client money scam

09/07/2014(0)
Three brothers who ran one of Gibraltar’s largest law firms were jailed last week for fraud, four years after their firm, Marrache & Co, was put into liquidation. Benjamin, ... Read More
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