Spitzer: UBS improperly put clients into costly accounts
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NEW YORK -- UBS AG was sued by New York State over allegations that Europe's largest bank defrauded thousands of brokerage clients out of tens of millions of dollars by steering them into costly accounts they didn't need.
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The Big Four accounting firms wrongly  let some corporate clients understate liabilities and distort  their financial health in their 2003 accounts, the regulatory  body for auditors said in a report on Thursday.
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New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer on Friday filed suit against Universal Life Resources  (ULR), charging the life and disability insurance broker with  taking fraudulent kick-backs for steering business to insurers  MetLife, Prudential and UnumProvident.
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Eliot Spitzer has once again opened a window on the financial world and pronounced it sordid. The New York attorney general revealed an unseemly mix of payoffs
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Bank of New York (BK:NYSE - news - research) reportedly faces a $24 million fine to avoid a criminal indictment for allegedly failing to report suspicious activity at one of its branches.
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Barclays PLC  may have tallied  big losses in a Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge fund that  invested in risky mortgages, The Wall Street Journal reported  on Saturday.
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UK banks charged their customers Â£3bn for unauthorised overdrafts during the past year, Which magazine says.
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A suit brought by the New York Attorney General against UBS, accusing its U.S. brokerage of defrauding customers, could harm the wealth management industry even if the Swiss bank mounts a successful defense, analysts said.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is accusing the nation's largest shopping mall owner of violating a new consumer protection law by charging administrative fees on prepaid gift cards.
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Workers are being overcharged tens of billions of dollars a year in unnecessary and often hidden fees imposed on popular, company-sponsored retirement savings plans known as 401(k)s, financial experts told a congressional committee yesterday.
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Super stockbroker Dick Connolly , whose roster of rich and occasionally famous clients includes golf legend Arnold Palmer, is out at UBS. Lots of people, including state securities regulators, would like to know why.
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GIANT insurance brokers are accused of taking kickbacks from insurance companies. Mutual fund managers allow preferred clients to trade after hours.
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Federal regulators said in court papers filed yesterday that Fidelity Investments' money management arm "may have, directly or indirectly" defrauded some clients or prospective clients during a two-year period from 2002, actions which may have prevented Fidelity customers from getting the best possible deals on stock trades.
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Bank sues Wall Street firm Bear Stearns for fraud and deception over loss of hundreds of millions of dollars
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Marsh & McLennan Cos. revealed what's  at stake in the probe into its behavior by New York Attorney  General Eliot Spitzer, saying it generated $845 million of fat  fees from a practice at the center of a bid-rigging scandal.
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The Swiss banking regulator is to investigate how UBS ran up billions of dollars of losses in the credit crisis.
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ALBANY, NY -- The man who made Wall Street reform its ways is now charging widespread corruption in the insurance industry. He alleged that brokers have been taking payoffs from insurance companies to steer