Coinbase has hired finance executive Brian Brooks as chief legal officer, it said on Wednesday, as the cryptocurrency exchange grows its compliance and government affairs capabilities amid intensifying regulatory scrutiny of the nascent market. Brooks was most recently executive vice president, general counsel and ...Read More

BlackRock’s Larry Fink got blitzed by a war protester at a conference in New York Thursday. Moments after the head of the $6 trillion asset manager took the stage, a protester from the female-led peace group Code Pink stormed the stage bearing a sign ...Read More

Europe’s antitrust regulators have opened a preliminary probe of Amazon.com to see whether the e-commerce giant has stifled smaller competitors who sell clothing, toys and other goods through its website, marking the region’s latest inquiry into the business practices of a U.S. tech giant. The concern ...Read More

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has participated over the last month in multiple interview sessions lasting for hours with investigators from the office of special counsel, Robert Mueller, sources tell ABC News. The special counsel’s questioning of Cohen, one of the president’s ...Read More

In January, a Reddit thread accusing Mattress Firm of being a money-laundering operation went viral, sending the internet into a frenzy as people posted screenshots from Google Maps showing the heavy concentration of stores in their area. With about 3,400 stores, Mattress Firm is by far the largest ...Read More

Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer and President Timothy Sloan testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, during a hearing on Wells Fargo after one year. Wells Fargo, the third-biggest U.S. bank, ...Read More

The European commission has described the €200bn (£178bn) money-laundering case at Denmark’s largest bank as “the biggest scandal” in Europe. Věra Jourová, the European commissioner for justice, said she would summon ministers from Denmark and Estonia to explain how Danske Bank executives and regulators missed the scandal. “I ...Read More