TORONTO (Reuters) – TD Bank’s chief compliance officer has left the bank, according to a memo sent internally, at a time the Canadian lender faces U.S. regulators and the Justice Department in a probe related to its anti-money laundering program. Monica Kowal, who joined the bank in 2017, left the company this week, and will…
By Martin Coulter, James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) -A global tech failure disrupted operations across multiple industries on Friday, halting flights and upending everything from banking to healthcare systems. WHAT HAPPENED? CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity company with a market value of about $83 billion, is among the most popular in the world, counting more than 20,000…
(Reuters) – U.S. technology firm Apple has become the first brand to cross $1 trillion in brand value, a 15% jump from last year, a global ranking by Kantar’s BrandZ showed on Wednesday. The iPhone maker retained its crown as the world’s most valuable brand for the third straight year in 2024, followed by Alphabet’s…
By Niket Nishant and Nupur Anand (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase beat estimates for second-quarter profit on Friday, as its investment banking business benefited from a resurgence in dealmaking and strong capital market activity. More companies are tapping capital markets to raise funds and striking takeover deals as they become confident in the U.S. economy’s ability…
(Reuters) – Southwest Airlines’ shares rose about 7% in premarket trade on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that activist investor Elliott Investment Management had built a nearly $2 billion stake in the U.S. carrier. According to the Journal’s report on Sunday, Elliott is one of Southwest’s largest investors and plans to push for…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Friday her office has recovered $50 million from the cryptocurrency platform Gemini Trust to repay investors defrauded in its Gemini Earn program. James said Gemini, run by billionaire twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will provide full recoveries to more…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester said Friday that the latest round of inflation data is good news for the economy and the central bank. After being higher than desired at the start of the year, “it is welcome to see that inflation is moving…
By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron set off a political earthquake on Sunday when he called shock legislative elections for later this month after he was trounced in the European Union vote by Marine Le Pen’s far-right party. Macron’s surprise decision represents a major roll of the dice on…
By Jonathan Stempel and Clark Mindock (Reuters) – Tesla has been sued by an environmental nonprofit that accused Elon Musk’s electric car company of violating the federal Clean Air Act hundreds of times by letting its Fremont, California, plant emit harmful pollutants. In a complaint filed on Monday, the Environmental Democracy Project said Tesla has…
(Reuters) – The billionaire Winklevoss twins, founders of cryptocurrency company Gemini, were refunded after their bitcoin donations to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign exceeded the maximum amount allowed under federal law, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, whose crypto firm in February entered settlement agreements with U.S. and New York state financial regulators…
