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Department of Financial Services probes firms including Lloyd's of London, Hannover RE and Swiss RE over Iran links

Former CEO and ex-New Jersey governor charged by Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Leaked documents have revealed how the National Security Agency collects and retains personal data.

Japan's banking giant pays quarter of a billion dollars for deleting information from $100bn in wire transfers relating to US sanctioned Iran

Glendon Crawford and Eric Feight arrested for plot to kill ‘Israel's enemies while they slept’.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom breaks down at news that petabytes of user files deleted.

PCBS report says enforcement of existing sanctions, not new ones, is the immediate way forward

Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards recommends jail sentences for bankers who cause financial disasters.

Serious Fraud Office charges senior trader with conspiracy to defraud over Libor.

Michael Karkoc accused of ordering massacres of women and children in burning of villages

Minh Quang Pham faces extradition to the US on charges of providing material support to the terrorist network.

If legal processes to obtain data on UK citizens are being circumvented, it is a "very serious issue" and questions have to be answered at the highest levels.

The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has been gathering information from Google, Facebook, Apple and others using the US-run Prism programme.

Following revelations the NSA was monitoring US citizens’ phone calls, privacy advocates warn the problem is much bigger.

IBTimes UK delivers a refresher course on the rate that was rigged around the world

Apple has been accused of conspiring with publishers to fix the price of ebooks costing consumers "hundreds of millions of dollars."

Counter-terrorism and counter-espionage expert will join Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee to help prevent future money laundering scandals

The world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, now requires valid ID from all traders exchanging Bitcoin and real-world currency.

A US judge has said tentatively that government evidence will prove Apple guilty of colluding to fix ebook prices.

Associated Press's 2012 CIA Yemen terror plot operation story behind Justice Department seizure.

Three years on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, IBTimes UK looks at BP's mounting costs

Lawyers scramble to build criminal case as Republicans call for military trial as an enemy combatant.

The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial CISPA bill, though it now faces opposition from President Obama and the Senate

Japan's Financial Services Agency orders the Tokyo-based unit to boost compliance over rate manipulation amid criminal charges.

Pressure from regulators to increase risk management and oversight departments leads to 25% vacancy surge

Auditor who signed off on collapsed HBOS reports also sacked US partner.

BP will buy $8bn worth of shares and keep $4.4bn in reserve following the formal sale of half of its Russian joint venture to Rosneft

Chairman Sir John Peace admits he was legally and factually incorrect on sanction busting.

German lender increases mortgage-related lawsuits and unrelated litigation provision to €2.4bn.

HP accuses Autonomy of serious accounting improprieties and disclosure failures.