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Latest News in Asset Management

  • July 31, 2026

    SEC Says NY Adviser Owes $489K For Overbilling Clients

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday secured a nearly $500,000 agreement with a New York-based investment adviser that it says overcharged clients by failing to discount certain referral fees.

  • July 30, 2026

    CFTC Proposes Conflict Rules For 'Vertically Integrated' Firms

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday proposed rule amendments to address conflicts of interest among affiliated firms, heeding the call of a White House report last year that urged securities and commodities regulators to consider their approaches to so-called vertically integrated business models.

  • July 30, 2026

    Blackstone To Acquire HSBC Australia's $25B Loan Portfolio

    Blackstone Inc. announced Thursday that it will acquire HSBC Bank Australia Ltd.'s AU$36 billion ($25 billion) home and personal loan portfolio, as HSBC plans to focus on its corporate and institutional banking presence in Australia and New Zealand.

  • July 30, 2026

    Del. Chancery Axes Student Loan Co. 'Unfair' Lender Deal Suit

    A Delaware vice chancellor has dismissed, with prejudice, a stockholder lawsuit seeking to block new "highly dilutive" borrowing from the top lenders and shareholders of international student loan provider MPower Financing PBC, finding that the statutory safe harbor provision of Delaware corporation law protects the transaction, which will hand control of the company to two hedge funds.

  • July 30, 2026

    Exec Who Tried To Buy English Soccer Club Denies Fraud Rap

    A Florida executive who once tried to buy England's Everton soccer club on Thursday denied new charges accusing him of engaging in a $500 million fraud on lenders, before the judge hearing his case declined to adjourn his October trial. 

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