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If markets weren't bouncing because of presidential tweets, global debt, trade wars, coming elections and Senate hearing circuses, then they got another push this week from a top JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst who says a stock crash spurred by electronic trading could unleash social upheaval not seen since 1968.

The government's early prosecution of the crime has faced a big setback. In just the second trial for spoofing, which the Dodd-Frank Act outlawed, a Connecticut jury acquitted a former trader at UBS of spoofing this spring. That raised questions about whether prosecutors can pursue these cases.

Dutch bank ING Groep NV admitted criminals had been able to launder money through its accounts on Tuesday and agreed to pay 775 million euros ($900 million) to settle the case.

BNP Paribas personnel deliberately traded to move the ISDAfix benchmark in a direction at the precise time it was being set, says the CFTC.

Insider trading cases are sometimes as simple as a well-timed phone call warning an investor to bail on a stock ahead of impending bad news.

The settlements announced today resolve allegations brought in a whistleblower action filed under the False Claims Act in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas by Stephen Dean.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered Transamerica Asset Management (TAM) and three affiliated entities to pay $97.6 million to investors over errors in asset allocation models used in a number of funds offered by the firm from 2011 to 2015.

There were also whistle-blower complaints filed with the S.E.C. about undisclosed thefts and drug dealing in a factory.

The rulings are part of a civil fraud lawsuit that started in 2010, when Landis -Armstrong's former teammate - filed a complaint against Armstrong and Bruyneel as a government whistleblower.

For months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had been quietly and methodically scrutinizing Tesla Inc.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the founder of San Francisco-based venture capital funds and his investment advisory firm with overcharging investors to fund personal projects, including sending millions of dollars to his own virtual reality production company.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged five individuals and four companies for unlawfully selling securities of Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC to retail investors.

Jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has been accused by a former employee of using an ineffective assembly process for engines that go in U.S. fighter jets and manipulating test processes to pass inspection, according to a whistle-blower suit recently made public.

The Anti-Kickback Statute, in relevant part, prohibits offering or paying anything of value to encourage the referral, or to encourage recommending or arranging for the referral, of items or services covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and other federally funded programs.

Royal Bank of Scotland will pay $4.9 billion to settle U.S. claims that it misled investors on residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2008, the U.S.

The 2000 Harvard University graduate accused Goldman and Jim Esposito, promoted this week to global co-head of its trading business, of violating his rights as a whistleblower under the federal Dodd-Frank law, and also accused Goldman of defamation.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is intensifying its scrutiny of Tesla Inc.'s public statements in the wake of Elon Musk's provocative tweet Tuesday about taking the electric-car company private, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a whistleblower suing Allergan Inc could not avoid a ban on pursuing such lawsuits when a similar one has already been filed by amending his complaint following the dismissal of the earlier case.

The CFTC has handed out more than $45 million in multiple whistleblower awards, reflecting the higher volumes and greater complexity of incoming whistleblower submissions, officials say.

A whistleblower lawsuit was filed by Frank Tra, a former clinical oncology pharmacist at the Hutchinson Clinic, in 2014.