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SS&C Disputes Data Misuse Damages and Asks $889 Million From BNY Mellon
February 05, 2024

Canadian FinTech SS&C is reportedly accusing banking giant BNY Mellon of data misuse. The long-standing legal dispute is returning to court, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Feb 5), with SS&C — which provides operations services for investment managers — saying it is owed nearly $890 million by the banking giant. According...

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Epic Games: Apple Not Complying With Outside Payment Rules
January 31, 2024

Apple said earlier this month it would open its App Store to permit outside payment options. However, Epic Games — which has been battling the iPhone maker in court for the last three years — says that Apple has not yet properly complied with a court order that prompted the...

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New York Sues Citi for Allegedly Failing to Protect and Reimburse Fraud Victims
January 30, 2024

New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Citi of failing to protect fraud victims. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday (Jan. 30), the state’s top prosecutor alleged that the banking giant has no protections against account takeovers, misleads customers about their rights when their accounts are...

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Court Orders Independent Bankruptcy Examiner to Investigate FTX Collapse 
January 19, 2024

A federal appeals court has ordered an investigation into the collapse of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.  The court agreed with a government watchdog’s argument that appointing an independent bankruptcy examiner was necessary due to the alleged misappropriation of $10 billion of customer assets and the size...

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Bankman-Fried’s Parents Seek to Quash FTX Lawsuit
January 17, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents say they can’t be held accountable for their son’s actions at FTX. Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried were sued last year by FTX, with the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange alleging that the pair used their backgrounds as Stanford University law professors to enrich themselves as their...

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Genesis Global Trading to Pay $8 Million Penalty, Surrender BitLicense
January 12, 2024

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has announced that Genesis Global Trading will pay an $8 million penalty to the state and surrender its BitLicense.  These moves come after a DFS investigation found “significant” failings in the company’s anti-money laundering (AML) and cybersecurity programs, the regulator...

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American Express Faces Class-Action Lawsuit on Rules for Merchants 
January 10, 2024

Debit card users in nearly a dozen states have been granted the ability to pursue class-action claims against American Express.  This follows a Tuesday (Jan. 9) ruling by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 10).  The lawsuit accuses the company of driving up merchants’...

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Bankman-Fried Prosecutors Call Off Second Trial
January 02, 2024

Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried will not face another criminal trial. The FTX founder, already convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges connected to the collapse of his exchange in 2022, had been scheduled for another trial later this year on charges related to conspiracy to commit bank...

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Wirecard’s Insolvency Manager Files Lawsuit Against EY in Germany
December 29, 2023

Wirecard’s insolvency manager, Michael Jaffé, filed a lawsuit in a court in Stuttgart against accountancy firm EY. The lawsuit claims 1.5 billion euros (about $1.66 billion) in damages over EY’s role in auditing Wirecard’s books before the German payments company collapsed in 2020, Reuters reported...