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March 26, 2026
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined a San Francisco-based broker-dealer $600,000 for allegedly failing to supervise employees' use of unapproved messaging platforms, in a type of proceeding FINRA's CEO said earlier this week would indicate a "real breakdown" in oversight.
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March 26, 2026
The Ninth Circuit declined Thursday to revisit a panel decision that held federally chartered banks aren't exempt from a California law requiring interest to be paid on mortgage escrow accounts, leaving Flagstar Bank on the hook for a $9 million borrower class action judgment.
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March 26, 2026
A former executive of long-acquired oil company InterOil must pay a Swiss investor $210 million in damages and interest under a final judgment entered Thursday in Texas federal court, affirming a jury's findings last year that the executive breached agreements between the two.
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March 26, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday revived a federal benefits lawsuit against Wells Fargo and Ocwen accusing the companies of mishandling home loans tied to a union pension fund's investments, overturning a lower court ruling that handed the bank and loan servicing companies a pretrial win in the proposed class action.
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March 26, 2026
A member of a music catalog investment group has sued in the Delaware Chancery Court to force the company to turn over financial records, alleging signs of mismanagement, missed payments and potential default risks tied to high-value music deals.
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March 26, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday warned major payment companies that denying services to consumers based on their politics or religion could lead to an enforcement action, the latest move in the Trump administration's broader crackdown on so-called debanking.
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March 26, 2026
Corebridge Financial Inc. and Equitable Holdings Inc. said Thursday they have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction that values the combined company at about $22 billion, in a deal steered by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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March 25, 2026
A New York federal judge on Wednesday trimmed a proposed class action alleging USB Financial Services Inc. put customers' money in low-yielding "cash sweep" accounts in breach of their contract, tossing a single duplicative unjust enrichment claim but allowing the contract claims to proceed.
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March 25, 2026
Payken is facing a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit alleging the blockchain-based payments company owes roughly $3.2 million after breaching a master credit agreement and failing to repay loans owed to a jointly owned lending vehicle created to provide it with liquid assets.
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March 25, 2026
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Wednesday asked former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP veteran Randall Guynn, a recent addition to the Federal Reserve, to explain how he is dealing with potential conflicts of interest stemming from his previous role chairing the BigLaw firm's financial institutions group.
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March 25, 2026
TD Bank failed to pay employees for overtime work they did before and after their shifts, a former customer service call representative alleges in a proposed collective and class action filed in New Jersey federal court.
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March 25, 2026
A Delaware lender has sued a group of real estate investors and affiliated entities in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of defaulting on a $3.8 million mezzanine loan and then diverting collateral to avoid repayment.
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March 25, 2026
A city housing authority and its corporate development arm have asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to order the civil arrest of an attorney accused of funneling nearly $10 million in unauthorized loan proceeds into his lawyer trust account.
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March 25, 2026
Federal regulators moved Wednesday to curb their authority to subject large asset managers, insurers and other nonbank firms to heightened, bank-like supervision, proposing guidelines that would reinstitute tougher standards for these too-big-to-fail designations.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has sued federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and a former employee for leaking his tax returns along with a trove of confidential tax data on President Donald Trump and other wealthy people, adding to mounting litigation over the breach.
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March 24, 2026
A New York federal judge Tuesday shot down a retrial bid from Charlie Javice, who was convicted of conning JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying her financial aid startup Frank, rejecting her argument that there was a conflict of interest because clerks who worked on the trial accepted jobs with the bank's firm.
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March 24, 2026
New York's financial services regulator announced Tuesday it has promoted one of its own to permanently head up its division responsible for licensing crypto firms and regulating fintech, a job formerly held by the agency's current acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow.
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March 24, 2026
Iowa's attorney general Monday pressed the Fifth Circuit to reject investors' deal with The Charles Schwab Corp. in an antitrust suit over its merger with TD Ameritrade, arguing it offers only uncertain and hypothetical relief to class members while giving named plaintiffs and class counsel a "windfall."
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March 24, 2026
Bank of America has asked a Florida federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of financial privacy violations tied to the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, arguing the U.S. Supreme Court has held that bank customers do not have ownership or expectations of privacy over their bank account records.
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March 24, 2026
Hundreds of terror attack victims with judgments against Iran will now receive $318 million as part of a settlement stemming from the federal government's forfeiture action against a 36-story Midtown Manhattan office tower linked to the Iranian government.
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March 24, 2026
Robert Cook, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said Tuesday that it will soon be rolling out a clearinghouse for firms to report cybersecurity threats and to promote information sharing across the industry.
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March 24, 2026
A Heritage Bank customer claimed in a putative class action Tuesday that the Washington-based financial institution failed to properly guard users' personal data that was stolen in a March 1 cyberattack, alleging the company used substandard security practices and failed to update its systems on a timely basis.
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March 24, 2026
JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s chief compliance officer said Tuesday that artificial intelligence has proven "transformative" to her bank, and that she sees a time when compliance officers may come to supervise AI agents as the technology evolves.
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March 24, 2026
Delaware lawmakers unveiled a pair of bills aimed at overhauling the state's banking laws, which their sponsors say would position Delaware at the forefront of digital finance and mark the most significant update to its financial code in more than four decades.
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March 24, 2026
Houston-area developer Colony Ridge told a Texas federal court that allegations underpinning a $68 million settlement with federal and state regulators would have faced "serious headwinds" at trial, pushing back on housing nonprofits' criticism of the deal resolving Biden-era fair lending claims against it.