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Mobile cheque imaging outfit Mitek has raised the stakes in its ongoing legal battle with online army bank USAA to include claims for defamation and unfair business practices.
19 July 2012
Missouri-based Pulaski Bank has filed a lawsuit against rival First State Bank and three former employees alleging the theft of customer information, loan files and confidential trade secrets.
16 July 2012
US retailers have reached a $7.25 billion class action settlement with Visa, MasterCard and nine major credit card issuers, ending a seven-year legal dispute over interchange fees.
An Icelandic court has ordered local card acquiring outfit Valitor to reopen a gateway to WikiLeaks, giving the whistleblowing Web site its first victory against the banking blockade that has choked off its money supply for over a year.
13 July 2012
Square seems to be getting a bit shirty with mPowa, calling in lawyers to demand the upstart rival remove from its Web site an image that bears a striking resemblance to one on Jack Dorsey's baby's own portal.
12 July 2012
Former Citigroup treasurer Gary Foster has been sentenced to just over eight years in jail for embezzling nearly $23 million from the bank.
03 July 2012
Two men who used the SpyEye malware to steal around £100,000 from online bank accounts have been jailed by a London court.
Following a two year investigation involving 13 countries, two dozen people around the world have been arrested in connection with a massive carding ring.
27 June 2012
A Californian business that sued its bank after a hacker drained its online account of around $400,000 has settled the case.
20 June 2012
A Detroit man who took advantage of a Bank of America glitch to withdraw $1.5 million he didn't have from ATMs and gamble it away in casinos is facing a jail term.
18 June 2012
A Dutch citizen has appeared in a US court this week accused of building Web sites through which he sold tens of thousands of stolen credit card details obtained though hacking by his co-conspirators.
14 June 2012
Lloyds' former head of fraud and security for digital banking has been charged in connection with a £2.46 million fraud.
25 May 2012
Detectives from the Metropolitan police have arrested three men after seizing a record haul of £4.1 million in counterfeit coins.
An EU court has dismissed MasterCard's challenge against a European Commission ruling that the firm's cross-border interchange fees violated competition law.
24 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX is being sued by an investor over its botched handling of the Facebook IPO, which saw trading delayed and failed order cancellations.
23 May 2012
A pair of Norwegian day traders who cracked the algorithms of US broker Timber Hill have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Supreme Court, according to local press reports.
02 May 2012
The UK's Serious organised crime agency (Soca) has shut down 36 Web sites used to sell stolen card and bank account details and arrested two men accused of using them.
26 April 2012
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged twin brothers from England with using a fake "stock picking robot" to defraud around 75,000 investors out of $1.2 million.
23 April 2012
A US Appeals Court says that it overturned the conviction of former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code because such code is "intangible property" and so not covered by the laws he was charged under.
12 April 2012
Online army bank USAA has filed suit against cheque imaging outfit Mitek, alleging that the vendor stole its trade secrets and technology when developing its remote mobile deposit capture system.
11 April 2012
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