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CCI penalises 7 firms guilty of bid-rigging in Indian Railways tenders

The CCI cited regular e-mail communications between the parties and filing of bids from the same IP addresses by certain parties etc. as pieces of evidence.

1 min read9 Jun 2022
Opinion

Opinion | There’s no time to lose in preparing for the death of Libor

Hit by a rate-rigging scandal some years ago, Libor is set to die at the end of 2021. We should be ready for it

4 min read8 Oct 2019
Companies

Facebook data breach: US FTC steps in, share prices plunge

Facebook is under investigation by US FTC over the use of personal data of 50 million users by Cambridge Analytica to help elect President Donald Trump

2 min read20 Mar 2018
Companies

UK MPs ask Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to testify on data row

A British parliamentary committee has asked Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain in person claims that millions of users' data was harvested for political campaigns

1 min read20 Mar 2018
Politics

Sebi probes 116 cases for securities law violation in 2017-18

During 2017-18 (till December last year), as many as 116 cases were taken up for investigation compared to 256 in the preceding fiscal, 179 in 2015-16 and 135 in 2014-15

1 min read9 Mar 2018
Industry

HSBC to pay $100 million to end US currency rigging probe

The $100 million that HSBC agreed to pay is less than criminal penalties paid by other global banks almost three years ago for misconduct over the rigging of currency markets

3 min read19 Jan 2018
News

China’s Communist Party accuses Xi Jinping’s rivals of vote rigging

The three men bribed the Communist Party members to vote for certain candidates in 2007 and 2012, threatening Xi Jinping's ascension to top spot, says Xinhua report

1 min read27 Oct 2017
Market

Sebi lifts ban against 307 entities barred from trading for alleged market manipulation

These 307 entities were barred by Sebi from trading in the securities market in 2014 and 2015 on suspicion of market manipulation and using stock exchanges for tax evasion

1 min read7 Sep 2017
News

Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law met with Kremlin-linked lawyer: Report

US President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer during Trump's presidential campaign , a media report says

2 min read9 Jul 2017
Industry

Citigroup agrees to pay $5.4 million fine to settle rand collusion case

South African antitrust investigation said the US bank participated in an alleged cartel to manipulate the value of the rand

2 min read21 Feb 2017
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