BERLIN (Reuters) – The German parliament’s financial committee will hold an extraordinary meeting on the Wirecard (WDIG.DE) scandal on Wednesday next week and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is expected to be there, a Social Democrat (SPD) lawamker said on Monday... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY should ring fence auditing in Britain as a separate business by June 2024, their regulator said on Monday in one of the most sweeping changes to the sector globally to improve audit quality. Corporate failures at b... More »
VIENNA (Reuters) – An Austrian lawyer has filed a criminal complaint against Wirecard’s (WDIG.DE) former Chief Executive Markus Braun and Chief Operating Officer Jan Marsalek at a court in Vienna, accusing them of market manipulation and serious fraud. The Vie... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German regulators twice looked into tightening the supervision of collapsed payments firm Wirecard and discussed it with the German and European central banks but no action was taken, a person with direct knowledge of the talks told Reute... More »
MANILA (Reuters) – Bank of the Philippine Islands Chief Executive Cezar Consing said it was clear that a certificate purporting to be for a Wirecard deposit was “spurious” and reiterated that no cash from the German payments firm had entered the bank. Wirecard... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Regulators worked hard and did their job in the case of payments firm Wirecard, which on Monday said that 1.9 billion euros ($2.13 billion) missing from its accounts was likely never there, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Monday. “I thi... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Like the myriad approaches governments are taking to tackle the coronavirus crisis, the way the world’s top banks are calculating their potential losses also differs widely, with puzzling outcomes for investors. These discrepancies are roote... More »
(Reuters) – Australia’s Boral Ltd (BLD.AX) said on Monday delays to building projects due to bushfires will likely cause a plunge in its second-half results, while revealing an investigation had found inflated earnings at its North American window-making busin... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – German payments company Wirecard (WDIG.DE) has hired KPMG to conduct an independent audit to address allegations by the Financial Times that its finance team had sought to inflate reported sales and profits, it said on Monday. The company, p... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Shares in Wirecard sank more than 20% in early trading on Tuesday after the Financial Times newspaper published documents on the company’s accounting practices alleging an effort to inflate sales and profits, dealers said. At 0806 GMT, share... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British retailer Sports Direct (SPD.L) has delayed publishing its annual results, warning problems integrating its purchase of House of Fraser stores and increased scrutiny of its accounts could affect the financial guidance it gave in Decem... More »
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Wednesday said a $377 million charge it incurred recently was tied to a solar generation company that U.S. authorities have linked to fraud. Berkshire said in its first-quarter report on Saturday it had in... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, faces Hewlett-Packard (HP) in London’s High Court on Monday in a multi-billion dollar showdown over the U.S. technology company’s 2011 purchase of the Autonomy software business he f... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday added three new criminal charges to their indictment against British entrepreneur Mike Lynch related to the $11.1 billion sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. Lynch faces a new charge of secur... More »
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedbank said on Tuesday it had hired external forensic auditors to investigate information in a media report linking the bank to a Baltic money laundering scandal, replacing recently appointed audit firm EY. Sweden’s public broadcaster a... More »
(Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co will pay $1 billion to settle with U.S. regulators who say the bank wrongly layered insurance on hundreds of thousands of drivers and routinely hit homebuyers with excessive fees, officials said on Friday. The penalty was a record ... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top six accounting firms will come under increased scrutiny from the audit watchdog, including checks on their top hires, after corporate scandals raised questions about the quality of book-keeping. The Financial Reporting Council,... More »
(Reuters) – Senior scholars in Islamic finance are exploring ways to prevent legal disputes that have roiled the industry, with new rules aiming to clarify responsibilities, while others raise the prospect of penalties for their peers. The discussions are part... More »
A tax form is pictured on tax deadline day at the main Post Office in New York April 15, 2009. REUTERS/Chip East NEW YORK (Reuters) – There will be no holiday slowdown this year for tax consultant Jonathan Traub, who skipped hitting the ski slopes with his fam... More »
FILE PHOTO – New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli speaks during an interview with Reuters in New York, October 18, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is asking Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) to disclose more i... More »
The Republican tax bill unveiled last week in the U.S. Congress could disrupt the global supply chains of large, multinational companies by slapping a 20-percent tax on cross-border transactions they routinely make between related business units. More »
Wells Fargo & Co is facing litigation over previously disclosed sales problems related to its auto lending and mortgage businesses, the bank disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. More »
A leading U.S. regulator wants to make it easier for Wells Fargo to pay employees when they leave, loosening a restriction in place since a phony accounts scandal hit the bank last year, according to people familiar with the matter. More »
In its first offering of online bank accounts, JPMorgan Chase & Co on Monday launched a new smartphone app that it hopes will attract new depositors, many of whom are young and may live far from any of its branch offices. More »
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC.N) has hired law firm Sidley Austin to take the lead in preparing Chief Executive Tim Sloan for his appearance before the U.S. Congress next month to answer questions about a year-long sales practices scandal, according to four sources w... More »
Wells Fargo (WFC.N) Chief Executive Tim Sloan is due to testify before Congress on Oct. 3 as the bank deals with fallout from a sales scandal a year ago that continues to spark new revelations. More »
Vanguard Group, one of the world's biggest fund managers, voted against three directors at Wells Fargo & Co this year, including Chairman Stephen Sanger, according to U.S. filings, a rare rebuke from the bank's second-largest shareholder. More »
Investors worried about lofty stock-market valuations may take comfort in signs that companies in the benchmark S&P 500 index are padding their bottomlines less than they have in previous years. More »
A group of U.S. senators from both parties on Wednesday turned up the heat on Wells Fargo Inc. over its latest scandal, in which hundreds of thousands of car-loan borrowers were charged each month without their knowledge for collision insurance, which many of ... More »
Toshiba Corp may gain a partial endorsement from its auditor for its annual financial results after disagreements over accounting for the much of the year, Japanese media reported - a step that would lessen, but not remove, the risk of a delisting. More »
Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) is examining whether it caused unnecessary financial harm to customers through mortgage fees, frozen deposit accounts and "add-on" products like identity theft protection, the bank said in a U.S. securities filing on Friday. More »
Republican Senator Jerry Moran said on Thursday he is seeking additional information on recent revelations that Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) enrolled unknowing borrowers in costly auto insurance, putting more pressure on the bank whose reputation is already marred... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind cherry blossoms at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Crisis-wracked Toshiba Corp suffered further indignities on Friday, estimating bigger losses for the past financial year an... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo Toshiba Corp said on Friday it now estimates a bigger loss for the past year ended in March due to po... More »
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit in Washington October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) largest investor, Warren Buffett, has likely already voted... More »
FILE PHOTO: An Apple logo is seen in a store in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is considering teaming up with its supplier Foxconn to bid for Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) semiconductor business, p... More »
A Western Digital office building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) has warned Toshiba Corp (6502.T) that splitting off its chip unit prior to a planned sale of the business violates their j... More »
A Wells Fargo logo is seen in New York City, U.S. January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith Proxy adviser Glass Lewis on Tuesday recommended that Wells Fargo & Co shareholders vote against six directors at an upcoming annual meeting, in protest of improper sal... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Shares in Toshiba Corp tumbled on Monday after sources told Reuters that the troubled Japanese conglomerate would likely mi... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp will likely miss a third deadline to report its quarterly business results, two sources told Reuters, forcing ... More »
The logo of Toshiba is seen as a shareholder arrives at Toshiba’s extraordinary shareholders meeting in Chiba, Japan March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp’s shareholders on Thursday approved a proposal to split off the Japanese company’s prized NAND ... More »
China’s State Power Investment Corp said Westinghouse’s bankruptcy filing would not have a “substantial impact” on the country’s nuclear plans and the two sides would ensure a key AP1000 reactor project would be completed on schedule this year. More »
The Japanese government is not considering steps to support embattled conglomerate Toshiba Corp, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Friday. More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic signal at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Shares in Toshiba Corp tumbled on Wednesday after it said it would consider a sale of Westinghouse but did ... More »
FILE PHOTO – A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo The Japanese government, fretting over the future of Toshiba Corp’s flagship memory chips unit, is prepared to blo... More »
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso takes questions from reporters at the Willard Intercontinental hotel during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Washington October 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan Toshiba Corp’s Westinghouse unit needs... More »
A Wells Fargo Bank is shown in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) has taken further steps to restructure its retail banking business, demoting some senior executives within the bank, the Wall Street... More »
FILE PHOTO: Logos of Foxconn and Ennoconn are seen during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan June 1, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is not a favored bidder for Toshib... More »
A Caterpillar grader works at a development in Arvada, Colorado March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking After U.S. authorities raided Caterpillar Inc’s Peoria, Illinois, headquarters as part of a criminal investigation Thursday, the company stated the search was p... More »
FILE PHOTO – Investor Warren Buffet arrives for the premiere of the film ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ in New York, U.S. on September 20, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Saturday attacked what he saw as tricks ... More »
Reporters raise their hands for a question during a news conference by Toshiba Corp CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa and other senior sompany officials at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T), responding t... More »
A Wells Fargo Bank is shown in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake Wells Fargo & Co has fired four mid-level executives and stripped them of bonuses and stock awards as a result of an investigation into improper sales practi... More »
A Wells Fargo bank logo is pictured on a building in North Miami, Florida March 19, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri When a scandal over unauthorized accounts rocked Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) retail division last fall, executives at its asset management arm sprang... More »
FILE PHOTO – A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) wants to raise at least 1 trillion yen ($8.8 billion) by selling most of its flash m... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic signal at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Shares in Japan’s Toshiba sank 10 percent on Friday, after credit rating firm S&P Global said it could slash the conglomerate’s ra... More »
FILE PHOTO – Pedestrians walk past a logo of Toshiba Corp outside an electronics retailer in Tokyo September 14, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Shares in Toshiba Corp (6502.T) skidded on Wednesday after the conglomerate said it would book a $6.3 billion h... More »
Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has decided to delay the sale of shares in its chip business to the next financial year or later, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday, without citing sources. More »
Reporters raise their hands for a question during a news conference by Toshiba Corp CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa and other senior sompany officials at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s Toshiba Corp on Wednesday a... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen as Window cleaners work on the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it has asked regulators to allow it to delay the release of its earnings, including... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 1, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T) will on Tuesday detail a writedown of close to $6 billion after bruising cost overruns at its U.S. nuclear arm, turning ... More »
FILE PHOTO- A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Phot Japanese trust banks are preparing to sue Toshiba Corp over its 2015 accounting scandal, a fresh heada... More »
Toshiba Corp chairman Shigenori Shiga attends a news conference at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp (6502.T) Chairman Shigenori Shiga is ready to step down to take responsibility for the huge writedowns loom... More »
Consumer credit lender International Personal Finance (IPF) said on Friday it would appeal against a decision by the Polish tax authority relating to the accounts of its Polish business, Provident Polska, for the 2008 financial year. More »
A Wells Fargo branch is seen in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, U.S. on February 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo – RTX2TOT5 The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed a high-profile whistleblower in its criminal investigation into Wells Far... More »
U.S. tax accounting software company Avalara Inc has interviewed banks to help prepare for an initial public offering (IPO) that could come in 2017 and value the company at roughly $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. More »
A customer enters the Wells Fargo bank branch in Golden, Colorado October 11, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Legislation introduced by two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday would allow Wells Fargo & Co customers to go to court, instead of private arbitration, to re... More »
A Wells Fargo branch is seen in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, U.S. on February 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo A leading U.S. bank regulator on Friday reversed course and positioned the agency to claw back pay of former executives at Wells F... More »
A Wells Fargo bank is seen in Del Mar, California January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Blake Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) has fired hundreds of employees with Wall Street licenses for improper sales practices, three U.S. senators said on Thursday. More »
Wells Fargo bank teller machines are seen in San Francisco, California, U.S. October 10, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith /File Photo Federico Pena, a member of Wells Fargo’s board of directors and chairman of its corporate responsibility committee, has resigned... More »
A Wells Fargo Bank is shown in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake – RTSPJOV The state of Ohio on Friday joined a growing list of municipalities to suspend business relationships with Wells Fargo & Co over a scandal involvin... More »
A Wells Fargo Bank is shown in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) Board of Directors will publicize the results of an internal investigation over unauthorized accounts, according to an outside spo... More »
A Wells Fargo branch is seen in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, U.S. on February 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo – RTSNP7O Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) CFO John Shrewsberry said on Friday he has not considered giving back bonuses he has earned fol... More »
Warren Buffett, Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway takes part in interviews before a fundraising luncheon for the nonprofit Glide Foundation in New York September 8, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Warren Buffett, chairman of Be... More »
Oregon State Treasury said on Thursday that it will press Wells Fargo & Co to make reforms in its management structure and executive compensation in light of a sales scandal that has become a major issue in Washington and on Wall Street. More »
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the firm’s sales practices on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron Wells Fargo & Co Chief Executive John Stumpf, under fire over problemati... More »
The sign outside the Wells Fargo & Co. bank in downtown Denver April 13, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking The House of Representatives Financial Services committee plans to hold a hearing into Wells Fargo & Co next week after a scandal at the bank involving as many ... More »
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the firm’s sales practices on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) board hired law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP ... More »
The logo on a Wells Fargo bank building is seen in downtown San Diego, California March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Blake A phantom account scandal at Wells Fargo & Co has put the U.S. bank’s disclosure policies under a harsh spotlight. More »
A Wells Fargo branch is seen in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, U.S. on February 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has opened a probe into Wells Fargo’s sales practices and plans to call the company’s ... More »
A Wells Fargo branch is seen in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, U.S. on February 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo Wells Fargo & Co, embroiled in a scandal over the opening of sham accounts, was sued on Friday by customers who accused the bank o... More »
LONDON Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) tried to put its troubled past behind it on Wednesday by making a 3.6 billion pound ($5.1 billion) provision to top up its pension fund and make amends for British and U.S. mis-selling. Chief Executive Ross McEwan has been... More »
TOKYO Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo on Monday, seeking 301.99 million yen ($2.45 million) in damages after the firm’s stock plunged in the wake of a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal. The lawsuit ag... More »
TOKYO Japan’s securities watchdog will recommend that Toshiba Corp should be fined 7.37 billion yen ($59.84 million) for accounting violations, a person familiar with the process told Reuters on Saturday. The source said the Securities and Exchange Surveillanc... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp (6502.T) swung to a first-quarter loss on weak PC and TV sales, raising pressure on its new chief executive, who is already tasked with improving governance after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal. Toshiba on Monday reported an April-June op... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is set to report an operating loss of more than 10 billion yen ($83 million) in the April-June quarter hurt by weakness in the consumer electronics business, the Nikkei business daily reported. Toshiba last reported a first-quarter ... More »
TOKYO Tom Scott, a former U.S. executive at Toshiba Corp (6502.T), remembers his former boss Atsutoshi Nishida as an aggressive leader who could motivate staff but also rattle them with tough sales targets and an occasional dressing down. “He gave me goals tha... More »
TOKYO The Japanese affiliate of Ernst & Young LLC has launched an in-house investigation into its audit of Toshiba Corp in the wake of the electronics maker’s $1.2 billion accounting scandal, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Ernst & Young ShinNihon ... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) chief executive Hisao Tanaka and a string of other senior officials resigned on Tuesday for their roles in the country’s biggest accounting scandal in years. Tanaka will be temporarily replaced by Chairman Masashi Muromachi after ... More »
