Mortgage lender Abbey has been fined £800,000 ($1.47m) by the City watchdog for mishandling complaints from its customers over endowment policies.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) also said Abbey gave the regulator inaccurate information while failing to treat its customers fairly
Oil giant Exxon Mobil has been ordered to pay damages to more than 10,000 petrol station owners for overcharging on the cost of its fuel.
The ruling by a federal court judge in Miami could set the US company back more than $1.3bn
Morgan Stanley will have to pay $850m (£462m) in damages to Revlon boss Ron Perelman after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud the financier.
A Florida court concluded that the US investment bank had acted improperly in relation to a 1998 deal in which Mr Perelman sold Coleman Inc. for $1
A former Enron finance executive has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for his role in a bogus deal to boost earnings.
Dan Boyle was sentenced alongside former Merrill Lynch bankers Robert Furst and William Fuhs, who will both serve three years and one month.
Enron fraudulently recorded the 1999 contract as a $12m (£6m) profit
Two ex-Walt Disney directors are suing the firm claiming investors were misled over the selection of a new chief executive to succeed Michael Eisner.
Roy Disney, nephew of founder Walt Disney, and Stanley Gold allege that Disney’s board made false statements in relation to Bob Iger’s appointment.
Mr Iger, currently Disney’s president and chief operating officer, is to succeed Mr Eisner in September
Lloyds TSB has been accused of breaking the banking code of practice by giving loans to people who cannot afford them.
The BBC programme Real Story has found that one south Wales couple on a low income was lent £100,000 by the bank.
The Banking Code Standards Board has said it is investigating the actions of the bank
South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and is facing a $185m (£142m) fine in the US.
In a plea filed in San Francisco, Hynix admitted conspiring with other companies to fix prices of popular computer memory products
The ex-boss of US insurance giant AIG, Maurice Greenberg, gave his wife more than $2bn (£1.2bn) of his shares in the company days before stepping down.
The stock transfer was recorded in a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Cosmetics giant Kanebo has admitted overstating profits in what could turn out to be Japan’s largest accounting fraud involving a non-financial firm.
The company said its net profits for the four years to March 2003 had been inflated by $1.37bn (£723m) and it had recorded a loss over the period
US federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into newspaper tycoon Conrad Black, it has been confirmed.
Lord Black, his former deputy David Radler and their company Hollinger Inc are already facing a civil lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
They are accused of fraudulently taking $85m (£46m) from newspaper group Hollinger International