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Germany’s Deutsche Bank Offers A Lifeline To Wirecard Bank

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Deutsche Bank, the Frankfurt-based multinational financial services company, is in talks with regulators to rescue Wirecard Bank, the deposit-taking division of the German payment company that is facing one of the country’s biggest accounting frauds, the Financial Times reported.

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Madoff Whistleblower Has GE On The Defense

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Boston-based General Electric (GE) is defending itself against accounting fraud alleged by the same whistleblower who called out Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, Reuters reported on Monday (Aug. GE’s reported operating margins for the past three years are a negative 6 percent, lower than the historical average.

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Five at Five: Amazon’s Holiday Season

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and China, local Chinese vendors operating in Yiwu International Trade City are upbeat about 2019. The firm agreed to pay $10 million after FINRA contended it had lapses in compliance for more than five years from January of 2001 until April of 2016. Local China Merchants Upbeat About 2019 Cross-Border Sales.

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CFPB Cracks Down On Deceptive Lender Who Targeted 9/11 First Responders

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19) that it took action against Top Notch Funding and two individuals associated with the company. In a press release , the government watchdog contended the company and two individuals lied about loan offerings to consumers who were awaiting payment from settlements in legal cases or from victim-compensation funds. “We

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Ex-Vatican Bank President, Lawyer Charged With Embezzlement

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According to the AP, the Institute for Religious Works reported that Caloia and Luizzo were charged with embezzlement and self-laundering between 2001 and 2008. During that time, the bank disposed of a “considerable” portion of the real estate assets. The two were ordered to pay back the bank, noted the report.

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No Pain, No Gain? GDPR, PSD2 And The New Payments Reality

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Those two regulations — already having an impact on the planning and operations of players in the payments, commerce and digital spaces — promise to significantly shape those worlds in the coming years, no doubt in ways that can barely be predicted now, as is the case with many laws and regulations. A Reckoning Approaches.

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Meet the New Financial Crime Sheriff: Analytics

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In another example, a Wall Street Journal article on terrorism financing said: “[Suspicious activity report] filings on customers—arriving at the rate of 55,000 a day—come largely from banks and money-service businesses, but also casinos, stockbrokers and insurance companies. And follow me on Twitter @FraudBird.