Legal issues and news

The Federal Trade Commission penalized the finance app Brigit after alleging it misled customers about being able to access "up to" $250 in cash advances in exchange for a monthly fee and made it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions.

The Treasury Department is expanding a whistleblower program, which currently deals only with anti-money-laundering violations, to include tips from employees of financial institutions that result in sanctions-related penalties.

Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of a massive fraud that led to the collapse of his FTX exchange, following a monthlong trial.

The lawsuit by state Attorney General Keith Ellison is the latest challenge to high-cost loans by tribal lenders. The lenders argue that tribal sovereignty gives them immunity from such lawsuits.

Citing the need to conserve capital, Blue Ridge Bankshares indefinitely extended a dividend suspension that it announced in July. The bank remains well-capitalized, but it saw its ratios shrink in the third quarter.

U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said Oscar Marcelo Nunez-Flores, a New Jersey bank staffer of a bank unnamed in case documents, was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly took bribes to launder millions in drug money to Colombia.

Charlie, a neobank marketed to people 62+, and Carefull, which partners with financial institutions, recently raised their Series A's. A third, called EverSafe, is embarking on its first fundraise.

The whistleblower who brought the case, Minnesota-based municipal advisor Johan Rosenberg, will receive $14.4 million under the deal.

JP Morgan Chase and Carver Federal Savings are applying fast-acting security tools more broadly — regardless of how fast the transaction is.

Sam Bankman-Fried spent almost three hours trying to persuade a judge to allow him to testify about the role FTX lawyers played in the lead up to the collapse of the crypto-exchange and the alleged mismanagement of customer funds.