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Greenwood sued over failure to pay earn-out to The Gathering Spot

Black-owned digital banking platform Greenwood is being sued by the founders of The Gathering Spot (TPG), a members-only club for black professionals that it acquired for $50 million in May 2022.

/payments

Block sues Visa and Mastercard over interchange fees

Block is suing Mastercard and Visa over the interchange and other fees imposed by the duopoly on the Square payments platform.

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Brothers imprisoned over P2P investment firm fraud

The brothers behind a British peer-to-peer style investment platform have been sentenced to a combined eight years in prison for fraud and money laundering.

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Celsius founder arrested on fraud charges

The former CEO of cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network, Alex Mashinsky, has been arrested on federal fraud charges.

/crypto

Ripple scores partial win in SEC lawsuit

Ripple did not violate federal securities law by selling the XRP token on public exchanges and through algorithms, a US judge has ruled in a major win for the cryptocurrency industry.

/security

Supreme Court rules in favour of Barclays over APP reimbursement claim

Barclays Bank has overturned an appeals court ruling that rendered it potentially liable for a £700,000 authorised push payment scam against one of its customers.

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Gemini sues DCG

Crypto exchange Gemini Trust has filed a lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and its CEO Barry Silbert over a failed partnership between the companies.

/payments

Payments Association warns UK govt on APP fraud plans

The Payments Association has written to the UK government warning of the “unintended consequences” of new policies designed to reduce Authorised Push Payments (APP) fraud.

/wholesale

Credit Suisse investors sue bank’s NY execs over ‘toxic culture’

A group of creditors for failed Swiss bank Credit Suisse have launched legal action against a number of executives in its US operations, alleging that a “toxic culture” that “valued short-term gain over long-term trust” had been allowed to prevail.

/regulation

Singapore fines banks for AML breaches in Wirecard affair

Singapore has slapped three banks and an insurer with fines for anti-money laundering breaches connected with the Wirecard scandal.

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PrivatBank accuses former owners of "fraud on an epic scale"

Ukraine's Privatbank has accused its former owners of "fraud on an epic scale" at the opening of a London trial over the alleged siphoning of nearly $2 billion in bogus loans linked to ficticious commodity trades.

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Currency One appeals judgement in Cinkciarz AdWords case

The court case pending since October 2013 in relation to allegations against Currency One SA brought by Cinkciarz.pl has ended with a non-final judgment given by the District Court in Poznań.

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Cinkciarz wins judgement in Google Ads case

A Polish court has ordered the owner of the Internetowykantor.pl and Walutomat websites (offering online currency exchange services) to apologize and pay compensation to Cinkciarz.pl (a company from Conotoxia Holding) and to donate an additional amount to charity.

/security

Spoofing site fraudster gets 13-year prison sentence

The man behind an international one stop spoofing shop, which enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks, tax offices and other official bodies, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

/retail

JPMorgan ordered to pay Frank founder's legal fees

JPMorgan Chase has been ordered by a judge to pay Frank founder Charlie Javice’s defence costs in the bank's suit accusing her of defrauding it in its $175 million acquisition of her college financial planning site.

/regulation

Coinbase sues SEC to force response to rulemaking petition

Coinbase has filed a suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking a court to make the regulator respond to a petition from last year on the "rules to govern the regulation" of digital assets.

/crypto

Gemini and Arrington join auction for failed crypto lender Celsius

The Winklevoss twins and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington are among the names involved in a three-way auction for bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius Network.

/markets

Financial Recovery Technologies selected by BNY Mellon's asset servicing business

Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), the leading global securities class actions recovery provider, today announced it will power the North American class action filing and recovery service for BNY Mellon's custody clients, including broader access to comprehensive non-U.S. alerts for global markets.

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Single Rulebook and Linklaters join forces to launch Law Compare

Single Rulebook, a leading integrated software platform for the management of regulatory rules, and Linklaters, a global law firm focused on bringing legal certainty in a changing world, today announced the launch of Law Compare.

/crime

Bank fraudster jailed

An online fraudster who conned hundreds of thousands of pounds out of UK banking customers has been jailed for more than three years.