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  • October 30, 2026

    Davis Polk-Led Fintech Startup OPay Prices $304M IPO

    Nigerian digital bank and financial technology startup OPay began trading publicly in the U.S. on Friday after it raised $304 million in its initial public offering steered by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

  • October 30, 2026

    Hedge Fund Exec Fights $40M In IRS Foreign Reporting Fines

    A hedge fund manager is seeking to recover nearly $40 million in foreign account reporting penalties, telling the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that the IRS violated his due process rights and administrative rules in imposing fines linked to his bankrupt Texas tycoon father's international accounts.

  • October 30, 2026

    Ga. Developer Fights Coverage Denial For Fraud Loss

    A developer told a Georgia federal court that a Chubb unit wrongly denied coverage for losses stemming from a third party's accessing of a client's payment portal to direct payments away from the developer.

  • October 30, 2026

    FinCEN Scam Alerts Push Banks To Rethink AML Monitoring

    Recent Financial Crimes Enforcement Network guidance on digital asset scams suggests that future anti-money laundering examinations may focus less on whether institutions detect the movement of criminal proceeds and more on whether they can identify fraud schemes before victims suffer catastrophic losses, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

  • October 30, 2026

    Trenam Law Beats Bank's DQ Bid In Trade Secrets Suit

    Trenam Law has defeated a bid in Florida federal court from Climate First Bank and other defendants to disqualify the firm from representing a financial technology platform in a trade secrets suit on the grounds that the firm previously represented the bank and had access to its confidential information.

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