Royal Bank of Scotland Group agreed to pay $5.5 billion to settle the second of three major U.S. mortgage-backed securities probes the government-owned lender must overcome before it can fully return to the private sector. The accord between the British ...

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WASHINGTON — Four global banks agreed Wednesday to pay more than $5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to rigging the world’s currency market, the first time in more than two decades that major players in the financial industry have ...

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WASHINGTON — The banking industry seems to bring out dishonesty in people, a new study suggests. A team of Swiss economists tested the honesty of bank employees in a lab game that would pay off in cash if they cheated. ...

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won’t be taking part in the Obama administration’s home mortgage principal reduction program. That’s bad news for underwater homeowners but cause for rounds of high-fives among executives in the nation’s financial sector. The setback for ...

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A bright economic outlook for 2012 is being painted by a local banker who says “We have arrived.” Gregory MacKay, senior vice president and chief economist at Canandaigua National Bank & Trust, Thursday presented a preview of what the economic ...

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Three of the nation's four largest banks are launching a system that lets customers transfer money from their checking accounts using only a mobile number or e-mail address.

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Appellate Division, Third Department Banking Fiduciary Duty — Subrogation Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection of the State of New York v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. 510339 Appealed from Supreme Court, Albany County Background: The plaintiff has the statutory purpose ...

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Geneva resident Kelly Mittiga, senior vice president of retail banking at First Niagara Bank, has been appointed to the Ontario County Industrial Development Agency’s board of directors for a six-year term. Mittiga oversees retail programs across the bank’s 255 branches.

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U.S Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Banking Wire Transfers — Insufficient Funds Fischer & Mandell LLP v. Citibank N.A. 10-2155-cv Appealed from the Southern District of New York Background: This appeal is from a judgment of the district court dismissing ...

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U.S. District Court, WDNY   Banking Consent Judgment — Fraud United States v. Goods 10-CV-576 Judge Skretny Background: According to the stipulation in this case, Goods is a settlement attorney who handled real estate refinance closings on behalf of financial ...

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NEW YORK CITY — New York’s attorney general filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday accusing the accounting firm Ernst & Young of helping the defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers deceive investors about its financial health.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top White House adviser questioned the need Sunday for a blanket stoppage of all home foreclosures, even as pressure grows on the Obama administration to do something about mounting evidence that banks have used inaccurate documents to evict homeowners.

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