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April 08, 2026
A group of service members urged a North Carolina federal court to keep in its sights claims that Citibank NA proffered misleading information about credit card account interest and fees, arguing a recent arbitration order erodes safeguards baked into the Military Lending Act.
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April 08, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday backed a lower court's holding that TD Bank does not have to produce information it's seeking to shield from a whistleblower, finding that the disclosure of the information would have violated federal law.
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April 08, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday that it has appointed a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner and former senior enforcement attorney to serve as director of the agency's Division of Enforcement, following the abrupt resignation of the most recent director.
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April 07, 2026
Federal regulators on Tuesday unveiled plans to overhaul rules that require banks and other institutions to maintain programs for detecting and preventing illicit financial activity, advancing a Trump administration push to streamline anti-money laundering compliance.
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April 07, 2026
The Ninth Circuit held Monday that a district court's award of $8.7 million in fees and expenses to attorneys representing a whistleblower who claimed Academy Mortgage submitted false insurance claims was too high, saying the case is not "exceptional," and the court didn't justify its lodestar multiplier of 1.75.
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April 07, 2026
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. subsidiary has agreed to pay a $3.25 million fine to end Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims that it failed to take action on red flags raised over a registered representative's inappropriate and risky investment strategy recommendations that preceded significant customer losses.
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April 07, 2026
TD Bank has asked a Connecticut state court judge to strike a contracting company's claims that the bank should face liability after the company sent $1.1 million to a scammer, pointing out in its filings that the company's own representative handed over TD Bank login credentials to the fraudster.
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April 07, 2026
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Tuesday floated stablecoin rules that would limit the extent of deposit insurance for holders of such tokens and ban certain interest-bearing arrangements with restrictions similar to a recent proposal from its sister banking regulator.
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April 07, 2026
A pair of special purpose acquisition companies, private credit-focused ACP Holdings Acquisition and advanced technology-focused Apogee Acquisition, began trading publicly Tuesday after raising a combined $350 million in their initial public offerings.
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April 07, 2026
A former Firstrust Savings Bank worker adequately supported his claims that employees lost millions because they had to invest a portion of their savings in the bank's underperforming proprietary fund, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, denying the bank's motion to dismiss the proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action.
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April 07, 2026
A federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss the insider trading prosecution of a Garden State broker-dealer's ex-partner, ruling that questions about the leadership of the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey, including findings that prior supervisory appointments were unlawful, do not taint the indictment or require disqualification of the case prosecutors.
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April 07, 2026
Private equity giant Blackstone, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday revealed it wrapped fundraising on its fifth opportunistic private credit fund after securing over $10 billion in investable capital, marking the firm's largest such fund to date.
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April 07, 2026
BakerHostetler announced Tuesday it has welcomed data privacy litigator Spencer Persson from Davis Wright Tremaine to its digital assets and data management practice group as partner, bringing in years of experience handling high-stakes privacy matters that will beef up the firm's privacy and digital risk class action and litigation team.
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April 07, 2026
Womble Bond Dickinson has added a trio of attorneys to its finance, bankruptcy and restructuring practice in Florida from Burr & Forman LLP.
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April 06, 2026
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has urged the Seventh Circuit to rule that his state may fully enforce its Interchange Fee Prohibition Act against national banks and other financial institutions, defending its ban on tax-and-tip swipe fees amid a banking industry appeal.
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April 06, 2026
The head of the nation's largest bank on Monday raised doubts about the Trump administration's plan to overhaul bank capital rules, casting it as an improvement on a Biden-era draft while saying it still includes some "frankly nonsensical" aspects.
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April 06, 2026
The Trump administration's latest budget plan calls for a more than 13% increase in spending for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, with nearly half of its total requested staffing increase for the agency slated for positions focused on deregulation related to the Bank Secrecy Act.
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April 06, 2026
A Second Circuit panel Monday seemed responsive to Citibank's arguments that consumer-initiated electronic wire transfers are carved out from the Electronic Funds Transfer Act under a longstanding exemption in the statute, in a suit from the New York attorney general over the bank's response to online wire transfer fraud incidents.
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April 06, 2026
M&T Bank Corp. has beaten investor claims that it hid regulatory problems that led to delays in its $3.7 billion merger with Hudson City Bancorp Inc., with a federal judge in Delaware finding that investors failed to show M&T made material misrepresentations or omissions.
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April 06, 2026
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. will be the federal government's financial agent in helping implement the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for children called Trump accounts, the U.S. Treasury Department said Monday.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court asked for the federal government Monday to weigh in on a dispute from ex-managers at restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday alleging Regions Bank lost them $35 million in retirement plan benefits that were liquidated in bankruptcy.
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April 03, 2026
A D.C. federal judge said Bank of America NA must pay interest on a $540 million debt it owes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. based on a government-set rate for the time before the ruling and a standard federal rate for the time after, marking a step toward settling the parties' dispute on the proper formulas for calculating the payments.
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April 03, 2026
A Long Island, New York, man admitted Friday to defrauding clients out of $160 million by hiding conflicts of interest and falsely claiming their investments in various private equity funds were safe and low-risk.
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April 03, 2026
The Third Circuit in April is set to examine the limits of an arbitrator's authority to change awards once they've been made, potentially defining the restraints of commercial arbitration rules and when rulings can be revisited.
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April 03, 2026
Ameriprise Financial Services LLC has agreed to pay nearly $1 million in restitution and a $450,000 fine to end allegations from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that the Minneapolis-based firm failed to properly supervise recommendations of certain variable annuity exchanges.