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The article discusses the financial services company Credit Suisse Group AG's sale of securities issued by offshore investment vehicles, such as Top Renda and EuroAforro Investments that are controlled by the financial company Eurofin Holding SA, to retail customers of the bank Banco Espírito Santo SA, which led to the collapse and alleged fraud and accounting problems of Espírito.

The article reports that ratings firm Standard & Poor's Corp. (S&P) has been advised by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it could face penalties for alleged securities fraud in connection with several commercial real-estate deals the company issued ratings for in 2011. The SEC did not identify the deals in question, although in 2011 S&P created controversy by withdrawing a preliminary rating from a security comprising commercial real-estate loans.

The article reports that banking company Bank of America Corp. (BoA) is being sued by the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission for having allegedly defrauded investors by understating risks associated with $850 million in mortgage-backed securities it sold in 2008. BoA contends the securities were purchased by knowledgeable investors and that it would fight the suit.

The article discusses criminal indictments filed against the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP, owned and run by Steven A. Cohen, for allegedly promoting a culture of insider trading, according to U.S. attorney Preet Bharara. Topics include criminal charges of securities fraud and wire fraud, the fee structures that SAC charges its clients, as well as SAC's corporate culture of alleged corrupt practices.

The article reports that the financial trader Rengan Rajaratnam has been charged with securities fraud and conspiracy as of March 2013, focusing on the similarities of the charges to those implemented against his older brother Raj Rajaratnam in 2011. Topics include the relationship between the brothers, the hedge fund Galleon Group LLC, and the trader Rajiv Goel.

The article reports that on October 1, 2012 New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued banking company J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. for alleged fraud by its Bear Stearns operation in connection with the sale of mortgage-backed securities. Schneiderman claims that Bear Stearns defrauded investors by selling securities backed by mortgages it knew or should have known were at high risk for default.

The article presents information on the conviction of Jonathan Mathew, Jay Merchant, and Alex Pabon, former traders of British multinational bank Barclays, for conspiracy to defraud. Topics include the employees' move to influence the Libor interbank offered rate (LIBOR), the involvement of Stylianos Contogoulasand and Ryan Michael Reich, and initiative of Great Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to investigate LIBOR rigging in the country.

The article reports on the trial of former bank trader Tom Hayes for trying to rig benchmark interest rates and his admission of engaging in collusive behavior with rival trader Guillaume Adolph of Deutsche Bank.

The article discusses the reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on securities class-action litigation in the court case Halliburton v. Erica P. John Fund as of June 2014 with mention of the decision's effect on investors and companies and a chart of securities class-action settlements.

The article discusses U.S. Supreme Court's decision to maintain securities class-action lawsuit processes as of June 2014, with topics including trial lawyers, securities class certification, securities-fraud plaintiffs, and the class action cases of Basic v. Levinson and Halliburton v. Erica P. John Fund.

The article reports that on March 7, 2014 Jesse Litvak, a former trader with investment bank Jefferies Group LLC, was found guilty by a U.S. federal jury of 15 criminal counts including securities fraud in connection with his having misrepresented prices of mortgage bonds to clients.

The article discusses a February 4, 2014 verdict in a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against life-insurance investments firm Life Partners Holdings Inc., in which a jury exonerated Life Partners of fraud and insider-trading charges but found it and two of its executives guilty of a lesser securities-fraud violation.

This article reports that the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals' has convicted financial services provider Refco Inc.'s former lawyer Joseph Collins of criminal charges due to his involvement in a fraud scandal at the company, including counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud.