Authorities in Austria have issued an arrest warrant for Phillip Bennett, former head of US brokerage Refco.
The move came a day after prosecutors began an inquiry into fraud and related charges surrounding Mr Bennett.
A warrant was also put out for the son of the former head of Bank Fuer Arbeit und Wirtschaft (Bawag), Wolfgang Floettl Jnr
Zurich Financial Services has agreed to pay $153m (£88m) to settle insurance bid-rigging charges by three US states.
The agreements with New York, Illinois and Connecticut bring to about $325m in such settlements it has made in the US.
Zurich was accused of conspiring with other insurers to fix prices for certain policies
Venezuela has hit UK oil giant BP with a $61.4m (£35m) back tax bill.
The country’s tax authority, the Seniat, said the figure arose from the firm’s operations in the country between 2001 and 2004
A former employee of a Halliburton subsidiary has pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from a Saudi subcontractor that was awarded a $14.4 million U.S
Police in Brazil have detained a Credit Suisse director in a federal inquiry as he tried to leave the country.
Six other company executives are under investigation as part of “Operation Switzerland” but Credit Suisse says the unit under scrutiny is a trade office.
It says Credit Suisse Representacoes is part of a Credit Suisse private banking division, but is non-financial itself
The chairman of outsourcing firm Capita is stepping down over “spurious” claims his £1m loan to Labour resulted in the group getting government contracts.
Rod Aldridge, one of 12 donors who lent the party almost £14m in total before the last election, said he did “not want this misconception to continue”.
Chancellor Gordon Brown said the political funding system had to be reformed to increase “transparency”
Officials in the US are suing shopping-mall developer Mills Corp. over alleged accounting fraud that cost the state pension fund more than $5 million in stock-market losses.
“This is becoming an all-too-common story all over the country – hard-working men and women
Former Enron executives lied to investors about its financial state because they knew the truth would destroy the company, a court has heard.
Testifying at the trial of Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, former Treasurer Ben Glisan Jr said his bosses were full aware of the firm’s growing debt.
He said Mr Lay asked him about managing the firm’s accounts in 2001 to avoid a cut in Enron’s credit rating
Three executives at Samsung Electronics have agreed to plead guilty on charges of conspiring to fix the price of computer memory chips.
The three men each agreed to serve terms of between seven and eight months in prison and to each pay a fine of $250,000 (£143,000).
The long-running US government probe has resulted in more than $731m in fines against 12 people and four firms
The French parliament has backed plans to give consumers more choice over music downloads from the internet.
MPs backed a draft law to force Apple, Sony and Microsoft to share their proprietary copy-protection systems by 296 to 193 votes.
The aim is to ensure that digital music can be played on any player, regardless of its format or source