Legal issues and news

The Biden administration is poised to put its stamp on the banking regulatory landscape, but there are few slam-dunk solutions that will satisfy both the industry and a vocal Democratic base.

Robinhood Markets' cryptocurrency arm was fined $30 million by New York's financial regulator after the brokerage was accused of violating anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity rules.

The San Francisco megabank plans to reinstate guidance that drew scrutiny following revelations that women and nonwhite candidates were interviewed for jobs that had been reserved for someone else.

Twitter subpoenaed records from Morgan Stanley and other financial firms as part of its legal fight with Elon Musk over his canceled $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform.

Visa said it believes it’s an “improper defendant” in the case.

Former Goldman Sachs Group vice president Brijesh Goel pleaded not guilty to charges that he illegally traded on confidential information he obtained while working at the investment bank.

U.S. brokerage units of JPMorgan Chase and UBS Group agreed to pay a combined $2.1 million in penalties to settle allegations from the Securities and Exchange Commission that they didn’t have the proper policies and programs in place to prevent customer identity theft.

The jury at an upcoming trial can draw an adverse inference about evidence destruction by the Chicago-based bank, a federal judge ruled. The plaintiff is seeking $1.9 billion from the bank, in addition to punitive damages and other funds in a bankruptcy-related case stemming from a Ponzi scheme.

A former Goldman Sachs Group banker was accused of passing insider trading information to a squash buddy, part of a group of nine people charged Monday by federal prosecutors in New York.

Affinity Credit Union in Iowa is taking the tech giant to court over the levies issuers pay to have their cards work in its mobile wallet.