Swiss bank Credit Suisse said on Friday (Aug. 13) it wants to add two risk experts to its non-executive board in the wake of a pair of recent scandals. Credit Suisse lost $5.5 billion as it tried to undo trades by family office Archegos and...
Wirecard staffers reportedly took millions of euros in funds from the firm’s German base in plastic bags during a timeframe that spanned years, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Individuals who used to work for Wirecard told authorities investigating the firm that workers took...
EY is increasingly finding itself on the hot seat as German lawmakers and investigators dig deeper into the collapse of payments giant Wirecard, whose books the accounting and consulting giant audited for a decade. The board of the now-defunct firm recently gave a green light...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday (Nov. 13) civilly charged former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf and Carrie Tolstedt, ex-head of Wells Fargo’s Community Bank, with allegedly misleading investors in connection with the bank’s unauthorized accounts scandal. Stumpf agreed to settle the...
September 21, 2020
Gross negligence – or evidence of a battle waged by banks that requires new, high-tech weaponry? To that end, and as reported by BuzzFeed, documents submitted by banks to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) show that several of the largest global banks moved money on behalf of scores of individuals […]
September 15, 2021
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she thinks the Federal Reserve needs to break up Wells Fargo over what she referred to in a letter on Monday (Sept. 13) as repeated instances of misconduct. Warren wrote that the massive bank has failed to “eliminate abusive and unlawful practices that have cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.” […]
August 13, 2021
Swiss bank Credit Suisse said on Friday (Aug. 13) it wants to add two risk experts to its non-executive board in the wake of a pair of recent scandals. Credit...
April 22, 2021
Wirecard staffers reportedly took millions of euros in funds from the firm’s German base in plastic bags during a timeframe that spanned years, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources....
November 25, 2020
EY is increasingly finding itself on the hot seat as German lawmakers and investigators dig deeper into the collapse of payments giant Wirecard, whose books the accounting and consulting giant...
