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  • March 06, 2026

    Failed Fintech Synapse Is Sued Over Missing Customer Funds

    Collapsed fintech middleware firm Synapse Financial Technologies, its brokerage subsidiary and its former executives have caught a proposed class action seeking to take the firm to task over alleged misrepresentations and mismanagement that left $85 million in customer funds unaccounted for.

  • March 06, 2026

    Oregon Passes Bill To Limit Out-Of-State Bank Interest Rates

    Oregon lawmakers have approved legislation opting it out of a federal law that lets state-chartered banks export their home-state interest rates nationwide, advancing a measure similar to one in Colorado that is tied up in Tenth Circuit litigation. 

  • March 06, 2026

    Calif. Judge Blasts Ex-Venture Capitalist In Axing SVB Suit

    Convicted venture capitalist and self-described "Silicon Valley's party animal" Michael Rothenberg's conduct in his lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acting on behalf of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, "consisted almost entirely of ignoring or frustrating" his litigation obligations, a California federal judge ruled in throwing out the case.

  • March 06, 2026

    FinCEN Hits Canaccord With Record $80M Broker-Dealer Fine

    Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.'s broker-dealer arm Friday agreed to pay $80 million in settlements with three financial regulators for "widespread compliance failures" that allowed some securities fraud schemes to go undetected, with the broker-dealer admitting it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

  • March 06, 2026

    DOJ Faces 'Serious Questions' In $68M Colony Ridge Deal

    A Texas federal judge told an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday that he has "serious questions regarding the nature" of a proposed $68 million settlement the agency and the state of Texas reached with Colony Ridge Development.

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