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Singapore Fines Credit Suisse for Bankers’ Misconduct
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Singapore Fines Credit Suisse for Bankers’ Misconduct

Dec. 28, 2023 12:08 am ETSingapore imposed a penalty of 3.9 million Singapore dollars (US$3.0 million) on Credit Suisse for failing to prevent or detect misconduct by its relationship managers.Credit Suisse bankers in Singapore had provided customers with inaccurate or incomplete post-trade disclosures, which led to clients being charged spreads above bilaterally agreed rates for 39 over-the-counter bond transactions, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in a statement on Thursday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Singapore Fines Credit Suisse for Bankers’ Misconduct
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Singapore Fines Credit Suisse for Bankers’ Misconduct

Dec. 28, 2023 12:08 am ETSingapore imposed a penalty of 3.9 million Singapore dollars (US$3.0 million) on Credit Suisse for failing to prevent or detect misconduct by its relationship managers.Credit Suisse bankers in Singapore had provided customers with inaccurate or incomplete post-trade disclosures, which led to clients being charged spreads above bilaterally agreed rates for 39 over-the-counter bond transactions, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in a statement on Thursday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Credit-Card Spending Piles Up as Savings Dwindle 
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Credit-Card Spending Piles Up as Savings Dwindle 

U.S. consumers continue to burn through their pandemic savings and are taking on more debt as they face high prices on everything from food and housing to entertainment. Marianne Lake, co-chief executive of JPMorgan Chase’s consumer bank, said at a December conference that before the pandemic, the bank’s lowest-income clients had on average 12 days’ worth of cash on hand. Today, that average is around 15 days, meaning consumers are close to spending down money they socked away during the pandemic. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Canada Approves Royal Bank Deal for HSBC’s Canada Unit
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Canada Approves Royal Bank Deal for HSBC’s Canada Unit

Updated Dec. 21, 2023 9:20 pm ETOTTAWA—Canada on Thursday approved Royal Bank of Canada’s proposed $10.1 billion deal for HSBC Holdings’s Canadian unit, over a year after the two lenders unveiled the transaction.Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said RBC agreed to a series of conditions that cover employment levels in Canada, customer service and financing to help construct affordable housing.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Mitsubishi UFJ Agrees to Buy Australia’s Link Administration
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Mitsubishi UFJ Agrees to Buy Australia’s Link Administration

SYDNEY—Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group agreed to buy Link Administration in a deal valuing the Australian financial technology company’s equity at 1.2 billion Australian dollars (US$800 million).Link on Monday said its board had unanimously recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the deal, in the absence of a superior proposal.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Oklahoma Finds It Hard to Break Up With JPMorgan and BlackRock
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Oklahoma Finds It Hard to Break Up With JPMorgan and BlackRock

Cutting ties with the largest U.S. banks and asset managers is easier said than done. In Oklahoma, where a new law requires the state to stop doing business with financial companies that “boycott” the oil-and-gas industry, officials and pension employees are running into hurdles while trying to comply.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Credit Suisse to Pay $10 Million After SEC Alleges Prohibited Underwriting, Advising
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Credit Suisse to Pay $10 Million After SEC Alleges Prohibited Underwriting, Advising

Credit Suisse Securities and two affiliated entities will pay more than $10 million to settle charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it allegedly provided certain prohibited services.The SEC said Wednesday that the bank acted as an underwriter and investment adviser to mutual funds after being prohibited from doing so by a New Jersey court in October 2022.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Royal Bank of Canada Fined C$7.5 Million Over Money-Laundering Lapses
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Royal Bank of Canada Fined C$7.5 Million Over Money-Laundering Lapses

OTTAWA—Canada’s financial-intelligence agency said Tuesday it has fined Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest lender by market capitalization, for failing to comply with the country’s rules aimed at deterring money laundering.The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, or Fintrac, said the fine, of 7.5 million Canadian dollars, or the equivalent of $5.5 million, is the largest financial penalty it has yet levied.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Bank of America Fined $12 Million by CFPB Over Mortgage Data Reporting
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Bank of America Fined $12 Million by CFPB Over Mortgage Data Reporting

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has fined Bank of America $12 million for allegedly submitting inaccurate mortgage lending information to the federal government.The agency said Tuesday that the bank’s loan officers failed in some instances to ask mortgage applicants certain federally required demographic questions, including about race, ethnicity and sex, but incorrectly reported that the applicants had opted not to respond to those questions.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8