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Nearly 7-1/2 years after Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme was unmasked, the court-appointed trustee recouping money for the swindler's victims on Thursday sought court approval to free up another $247 million to help cover their losses.

Citigroup and its affiliates have agreed to pay a collective $425 million to resolve civil charges the bank attempted to manipulate several key benchmarks, including the U.S. dollar ISDAFIX, the Yen Libor and the Euroyen TIBOR, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said.

Phil Mickelson has agreed to repay nearly $1 million he made from an insider tip on Dean Foods, although the professional golfer was not criminally charged as part of the investigation.

The U.S. has taken prudent steps to prevent another stock market 'Flash Crash', other countries remain vulnerable.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of five former employees of Bernard Madoff's firm who prosecutors said helped their boss conceal his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme for years.

Blood-testing firm Theranos Inc confirmed on Monday it is under investigation by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Former UBS chairman Joe Grano, told FOX Business Network’s Neil Cavuto that while the bank’s fine is just a drop in its bucket, the fact that it is paying and another entity is getting off the hook without much punishment of its own is telling.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday approved new rules that require publicly traded companies to reveal the gap between what their CEO makes and what rank and file employees take home.

Exclusive: Tim Geithner’s AIG deposition provides a somewhat different take on his actions during the financial crisis than what appears in his new memoir.

JPMorgan Chase will pay roughly $920 million in fines to four agencies over its massive ‘London Whale’ trading loss.

The Securities & Exchange Commission’s probe into a major insider trading case connected to the House Ways & Means Committee is being stymied by the committee’s attorneys.

Justice Dept. policies are expected to be announced on Thursday intended to increase the number of white-collar cases brought against corporate executives. The new guidelines are intended to focus on individual executives from the start.

Lots of people want to know where all the money from those huge Wall Street settlements goes. The simple answer is that no one knows.  

Today’s money market funds are returning a staggeringly low 0.01% annually. Learn why people are still investing in them.

The DOJ and SEC filed charges against a total of 32 people who allegedly took part in a scheme to hack newswire services and trade on nonpublic information.  

Federal regulators are poised to take on “political intelligence” as part of their broad crackdown on insider trading practices, a move some legal experts say could vastly expand the current legal definition of what constitutes an illegal trade, the FOX Business Network has learned.

A jury found Rengan Rajaratnam not guilty of U.S. charges he was part of his older brother's insider-trading conspiracy.

Author Michael Lewis told '60 Minutes' he believes the U.S. stock market has been 'rigged' by a combination of exchanges, Wall Street banks and high-speed traders.

Shares of Herbalife tumbled 15% on reports that a U.S. Senator has called on regulators to investigate the controversial nutrition company.