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  • May 14, 2026

    Oppenheimer Customers Ink $70M Cash Sweep Rate Deal

    A class of Oppenheimer & Co. customers are asking a New York federal judge to greenlight a $70 million settlement resolving their claims that the investment bank pocketed hefty fees from its cash sweep account program while paying customers "unreasonable, below-market interest rates."

  • May 14, 2026

    Morgan Stanley Beats Chip Co. Investor's Stock Scheme Suit

    A New York federal judge Thursday dismissed a stock manipulation suit against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, finding its temporary policy requiring customers to buy shares in Israeli chipmaker Eltek Ltd. over the phone, which allegedly enabled improper trading, to be "neither manipulative nor deceptive."

  • May 14, 2026

    Ex-Newsom Aide Cops To Campaign Fund Theft, False Taxes

    A former chief of staff to California Gov. Gavin Newsom pled guilty in federal court in Sacramento for her part in a scheme to divert some $225,000 from a dormant political campaign to a former Biden administration official's chief of staff, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

  • May 14, 2026

    FDIC Signs Off On Stellantis Industrial Bank Bid

    Stellantis, the company behind Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge cars, has received Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. clearance to open a U.S. industrial bank, a move that will put all of Detroit's "Big Three" automakers on track to own federally insured lenders.

  • May 14, 2026

    New Cuba Sanctions Raise Risks For Foreign Banks, Cos.

    President Donald Trump's bold move leveling secondary sanctions against Cuba expands enforcement risk for foreign banks and companies with no U.S. nexus, signaling that non-U.S. businesses should reassess related transactions, counterparties and exposure as regulators test this broader authority, say attorneys at Troutman.

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