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By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top lawmaker urged regulators to tighten the rules for swaps trading at foreign offices of U.S. banks, stepping into a simmering global conflict over how to supervise the $650 trillion derivatives market.

By Luciana Lopez and Aruna Viswanatha REUTERS - Standard & Poor's asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss a U.S. Justice Department civil suit against the rating agency, arguing the government's case is based on vague statements that cannot be ...

10:04pm BST By Sarah N. Lynch and Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - A White House attorney is a leading candidate to become the top lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the matter.

3:52pm BST By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Clothing retailer Ralph Lauren Corp will pay more than $1.6 million to settle a criminal and civil investigation of allegations that one of its subsidiaries bribed government officials ...

By Aruna Viswanatha Borrowers whose homes were in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010 can expect to receive between $300 and $125,000 under settlements reached between top banks and regulators earlier this year. The payments will begin going out on Friday, ...

9:11pm GMT By Aruna Viswanatha and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Washington law firm is suing regulators to hand over information about how it selected consulting firms to participate in a multi-billion-dollar review of banks' past ...

By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - Lanny Breuer, who stepped down as head of the Justice Department's criminal division, is returning to the law firm Covington & Burling where he spent most of his career. The firm announced that ...

By Aruna Viswanatha and David Henry,Reuters The Federal Reserve has ordered Citigroup Inc. to better police for the risk of money laundering, part of a broad U.S. regulatory crackdown on the potential for illicit money flows. The Fed told ...

Ex-JPMorgan executive Drew declines to be harpooned by "whale" losses 8:01pm GMT By Emily Flitter and Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ina Drew, the former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive who earned millions while in charge of the unit that ...