Asset Management

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Latest News in Asset Management

  • September 11, 2026

    Social Media-Focused Fund Founder Bilked Clients, Feds Say

    A New York City hedge fund manager lulled clients into keeping millions of dollars invested with his social media- and crowdsourcing-focused business by reporting high rates of return that were not real, federal prosecutors charged Friday.

  • September 10, 2026

    Bankman-Fried Asks Justices To Review His Fraud Conviction

    Incarcerated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review the Second Circuit's decision affirming his fraud conviction and $11 billion forfeiture order, saying now is the time to resolve whether evidence of fraud victims' losses belongs in fraudulent-inducement prosecutions and whether his "crushing fine" is constitutional.

  • September 10, 2026

    Treasury Clearinghouse's Stress Fund Delayed By SEC Review

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it needs more time to determine whether an agency that clears U.S. Treasury securities can set up a new fund to mitigate against member bankruptcy, with smaller brokerage firms complaining they would be forced to foot the bill for the clearinghouse's largest members.

  • September 10, 2026

    Latest Crypto Bill Draft Updates DeFi Rules But Not Ethics

    Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., on Thursday shared an updated draft of the Clarity Act that tweaked the crypto market structure bill's provisions around decentralized finance but left unaltered ethics language critical to winning Democrat support ahead of next week's cloture vote.

  • September 10, 2026

    Fed Colluded With Wall Street On New Capital Rules, Suit Says

    The Federal Reserve Board and its vice chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman, were sued on Thursday by Wall Street reform group Better Markets Inc., which alleges Bowman secretly met with the heads of Wall Street giants to manipulate the newly proposed U.S. bank capital rules.

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  • TRANSACTIONS
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  • U.S. Department of Justice
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  • U.S. Government Accountability Office
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