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  • June 01, 2026

    7th Circ. Sentence Approval Went Too Far, Fraudster Says

    A financial controller serving six years for a $7 million bank fraud scheme is again urging the Seventh Circuit to review the trial court's sentencing range decisions, arguing a panel improperly sifted through the record to affirm an enhancement for the scheme's sophistication.

  • June 01, 2026

    GAO Flags Risks After Corporate Transparency Act Rollback

    The Treasury Department's retreat from the Corporate Transparency Act and its requirements for shell companies to disclose their beneficial owners may perpetuate illicit finance risks, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which recommended the Treasury take steps to address such risks.

  • June 01, 2026

    UK Fintech OpenPayd To Go Public Via $1.15B SPAC Deal

    Allen Overy Shearman Sterling and Winston & Strawn LLP are steering a deal under which financial infrastructure platform OpenPayd will be acquired and taken public at an estimated equity value of $1.15 billion by Titan Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company purportedly focused on high-growth fintechs, the parties announced Monday.

  • June 01, 2026

    Ill. Swipe-Fee Law Blocked For Most Banks, Slated For Delay

    A Chicago federal judge ruled Monday that Illinois cannot enforce its landmark ban on tax-and-tip swipe fees against most banks, handing the banking industry a major legal win the same day that state lawmakers voted separately to delay the ban altogether until next year.

  • June 01, 2026

    JPMorgan Defeats Suit Over Transaction Processing Patent

    JPMorgan Chase & Co. was able to dodge a suit accusing it of infringing a patent covering a way to process a financial transaction, after a Delaware federal judge agreed that the patent didn't pass the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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