A former Morgan Stanley employee has been charged with stealing $2.5 million from the firm, with the crimes allegedly occurring over more than seven years.
President Obama’s mortgage plan aims to keep up to 9 million families from losing their homes to foreclosure.
The SEC today charged that Allen Stanford and his financial companies also falsely promoted the Stanford Allocation Strategy fund mutual fund wrap program.
President Obama today signed into law the $787 billion stimulus bill.
Credit Suisse Securities has been ordered by an arbitration panel to cash out an institutional client that held $400 million in collateralized debt obligations.
The House this afternoon approved by a vote of 246-183 a $787 billion stimulus bill in the hope that it will help the United States out of the economic crisis.
Executives at companies receiving federal assistance would face stiffer limits on bonuses and severance under the stimulus bill passed by the House today.
The wife of accused swindler Bernard Madoff withdrew $15.5 million from a brokerage account in the weeks before he was arrested.
The AIG Advisor Group has reached the end of a dispute with the SEC over a manager who oversaw brokers selling Class B shares of mutual funds instead of selling A shares, which would have entitled buyers to certain discounts.
A stringent plan to regulate hedge funds that is backed by Obama administration aide Paul Volcker won the support today of an influential Democratic senator.
To protect consumers against fraud associated with the current economic crisis, the FBI has increased its investigation into corporate financial crimes.
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin filed a complaint today to revoke the securities registration of Cohmad Securities Corp.
Amegy Bank NA of Houston, and its broker-dealer affiliate, Amegy Investments Inc., have filed an arbitration claim against Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. of New York.
Legislation aimed at improving disclosure of 401(k) fee information was introduced in the Senate yesterday.
Wells Fargo & Co. is hitting back at media coverage of a Las Vegas trip for mortgage employees that the bank canceled last week.
Bernard Madoff began to face the music today.
Fixing the global financial crisis will require more effective government regulation and greater cooperation among regulatory agencies around the world.
SEC director of enforcement Linda Thomsen is resigning to return to the private sector, the agency announced today.
Incidents of identity theft and fraud continue to rise but, due to increased vigilance by consumer and businesses, the cost to individual victims has fallen.
The Department of the Treasury under former Secretary Henry Paulson took a “passive-investor” approach to buying stakes in financial institutions.
