Gold mine scams point to trouble ahead, analysts say South China Morning Post Retired Chinese diplomats and non-existent gold mines have been linked to fraudulent investment schemes in what analysts say may be a sign of trouble ahead as tightening liquidity and concerns about the viability of lending products are likely to res...
Mortgage brokers sued in federal court over Charlotte real estate deals The Charlotte Observer Two mortgage brokers operated a conspiracy in which they gave lenders false information to obtain loans used for speculative real estate investments in Charlotte, according to two federal civil lawsuits filed Wednesday. | False statements by Joshua H...
JP Morgan to pay US$614m in mortgage fraud case South China Morning Post JP Morgan Chase settled the latest in a string of legal claims on Tuesday when it agreed to pay US$614 million to the US government and admitted that it had defrauded federal agencies by underwriting substandard mortgage loans. | JP Morgan, the large...
JPMorgan pays US$614 million, admits defrauding US federal agencies South China Morning Post JPMorgan Chase settled the latest in a string of legal claims on Tuesday when it agreed to pay US$614 million to the US government and admitted that it had defrauded federal agencies by underwriting substandard mortgage loans. | JPMorgan, the largest...
China units of Big Four accounting firms face US ban South China Morning Post Mainland units of the global Big Four accounting firms should be suspended from practising in the United States for six months, a US judge ruled, in an escalation in the long-running dispute over the regulators' access to audit documents. | In a hars...
Pietersen break gives Cook chance to seize the controls The Australian IT is lambing season down on the farm and not for the first time in his career, Alastair Cook will have had good cause to be thankful for the complete attention that farming demands on his time and energies during his down periods from cricket. It will have insulated him to some extent from the very modern kind of public witch-hunt that is trial by...
Shanghai visitors part of exchange programme Otago Daily Times A member of the Shanghai Municipal Government's foreign affairs office is to spend two months working at the Dunedin City Council. | Her arrival in the city next week will be hot on the heels of a group of 10 tertiary students and a teacher from Shanghai, who are spending two weeks in Dunedin on scholarships initiated by Mayor Dave Cull during a Du...
