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A US jury has indicted a Russian man arrested earlier this week in Greece accused of helping to launder more than $4 billion in bitcoin, including some obtained from the infamous Mt. Gox hack. In a coordinated move, the bitcoin exchange he operated has been slapped with a $110 million fine by American authorities for AML law violations.
27 July 2017
A Tribunal Court judge has blocked a £14 billion class action lawsuit against Mastercard for overcharging customers, agreeing that the claims were not suitable under the current collective actions regime.
21 July 2017
Company update/Legal
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) today announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has upheld a preliminary ruling on a patent infringement claim by Nautilus Hyosung related to automated teller machines (ATMs).
18 July 2017
Those with a bold vision or bright idea for the future of the professional services sector are invited to enter the prestigious annual Westpac Innovation Challenge, for the chance to win AU$40,000 and professional support to take their idea to the next level.
17 July 2017
Thomson Reuters has teamed up with Logical Construct to help global financial institutions gain visibility into the key legal and economic terms and risks hidden within their legal documentation with a full-service contract data management solution.
13 July 2017
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told Intercontinental Exchange that it must not only sell Trayport but also rip a commercial agreement with the energy trading technology shop it acquired for $650 million less than two years ago. ICE says it will comply.
07 July 2017
Hogan Lovells today launches an innovative new online LawTech product – Engage, a pioneering knowledge portal and thought leadership platform for both established financial institutions and new FinTechs.
27 June 2017
Innovate Finance’s Transatlantic Policy Working Group (TPWG) and Strategic Partner Hogan Lovells, today launched a report titled Future of RegTech for Regulators, Adopting a Holistic Approach for the Digital Era Regulator.
23 June 2017
BBVA has set up a Global Patent Office to work with inhouse engineering and development teams to protect IP rights in new products as they emerge from the laboratory.
09 June 2017
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) today announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a final ruling in favor of Diebold Nixdorf in its patent infringement case against Korea-based Nautilus Hyosung.
24 May 2017
Japan's financial services watchdog is to introduce new rules that will require high frequency trading firms to register with the regulator and demonstrate that they have proper risk management processes in place.
19 May 2017
FIS-owned consultancy Capco is suing its former UK boss Andrew Tarver for £145 million over allegations that he stole clients and conspired to cover up the evidence.
17 May 2017
US interest rate swaps exchange trueEX has filed a lawsuit against IHS Markit for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive practices in the post-trade processing arena.
09 May 2017
Palantir Technologies, a Peter Thiel-founded big data outfit which claims the SEC among its clients, will pay $1.66 million to settle a US government complaint that it discriminated against Asian job applicants.
26 April 2017
The son of a Russian lawmaker has been sentenced to 27 years in a US prison for hacking into retail POS systems and stealing millions of credit card numbers which he then sold on to other crooks.
21 April 2017
Law firm Collyer Bristow is collaborating with Augusta, a leading litigation funder in the SME market, to back a multi-million pound claim against MasterCard and Visa over their use of multilateral interchange fees (MIFs).
19 April 2017
A pair of enterprising American prisoners managed to steal enough spare parts from a work programme to put together two computers, which they hid in a closet ceiling and used for various escapades, including to apply for credit cards in another inmate's name.
13 April 2017
The US securities watchdog has issued a series of fines and penalties to individuals and entities for submitting hundreds of articles to financial websites which purported to be impartial endorsements of certain companies but which were secretly paid-for
11 April 2017
Allen & Overy is opening Fuse, a new tech innovation space where tech companies, Allen & Overy lawyers, technologists and their clients will collaborate to explore, develop and test legal, regulatory and deal-related solutions.
28 March 2017
The US Supreme Court has refused to revive a $5.7 billion class action settlement between millions of retailers and Visa and MasterCard over interchange fees.
27 March 2017
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