Department Of Justice news and trends

AI-Powered Search Engines Emerge as Google Faces Antitrust Scrutiny
Google // November 22, 2024

The history of the search landscape is a journey of technological innovation, evolving user behavior and competitive dynamics. And, if the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) call late Wednesday night (Nov. 20) for Google to divest its Chrome browser to answer a ruling that the company has a...

DOJ Proposal in Antitrust Case Aims to Undo Google-Anthropic Partnership
ANTITRUST // November 21, 2024

The Justice Department’s proposal to resolve its antitrust case over online search against Google reportedly would force the tech giant to unwind its partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. A recommendation in the Justice Department’s court filing Wednesday (Nov. 20) that Google be barred...

Google Blasts DOJ’s ‘Radical’ Antitrust Proposal
Google // November 21, 2024

Google is criticizing what it called a “radical” proposal to remedy government antitrust claims. The tech giant made the argument in a blog post Thursday (Nov. 21), one day after the U.S. Department of Justice called for Google to divest its Chrome browser to answer...

Federal Reserve Bars CEO Convicted of Embezzlement From Banking Industry
Security & Fraud // November 21, 2024

The Federal Reserve Board said Thursday (Nov. 21) that it prohibited Shan Hanes, a former CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank who was convicted of embezzlement, from future participation in the banking industry. Hanes embezzled $47.1 million of bank funds, which led to the bank becoming...

Interviews & Exclusives
Scam Factories Exploit Advanced Tech to Amplify Payments Fraud

March 13, 2024
Scam factories, where perpetrators themselves are victims of a system they help perpetuate, present a significant challenge to the integrity of global financial networks, resulting in an estimated $75 billion lost over the last four years.  These fraud factories operate predominantly across developing markets like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, Claire Greene, a payments risk expert […]

Tale of 2 Crypto Exchanges: Binance’s Money Laundering vs FTX’s Misappropriation

November 22, 2023
Cryptocurrency exchanges play a vital role in the digital asset ecosystem. They facilitate the buying, selling, trading, transferring, and storing of both individual and institutional holdings of the more than...

Justice Department Signals Intent to Crack Down on Crypto Crime

September 19, 2022
The Justice Department has put a band of prosecutors in charge of its crypto investigations and prosecutions. The creation of the Digital Asset Coordinator (DAC) Network on Sept. 16 came...

From Russia, with Malware: US Charges Hacking Group Evil Corp. In $100M Bank Fraud

December 05, 2019
Call it Russian interference of a different sort that netted $100 million from banks and financial institutions (FIs) in more than 40 countries. What would you expect from an outfit...

Quick Reads
Report: TD Bank Close to Adding Compliance Monitors

November 25, 2024
TD Bank reportedly is working to select compliance monitors to track its progress on risk and controls and report to regulators, as ordered by the U.S. government in October. As the bank works on this process, U.S. CEO Leo Salom told staff this month during a town hall that TD Bank is committed to fixing its anti-money […]

DOJ Proposal in Antitrust Case Aims to Undo Google-Anthropic Partnership

November 21, 2024
The Justice Department’s proposal to resolve its antitrust case over online search against Google reportedly would force the tech giant to unwind its partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic....

Google Blasts DOJ’s ‘Radical’ Antitrust Proposal

November 21, 2024
Google is criticizing what it called a “radical” proposal to remedy government antitrust claims. The tech giant made the argument in a blog post Thursday (Nov. 21), one day after...

Federal Reserve Bars CEO Convicted of Embezzlement From Banking Industry

November 21, 2024
The Federal Reserve Board said Thursday (Nov. 21) that it prohibited Shan Hanes, a former CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank who was convicted of embezzlement, from future participation in the...