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🎯 Citi Fined €13M by Germany Over Fat-Finger Flash Crash. Citigroup was also fined £61.6M by UK regulators last month for failures after the staffer’s fat-finger trade. Bloomberg
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🌎 Yale Failed To Disclose Millions in Qatari Funding, Flouting Federal Law. Qatari money has helped foment anti-Semitic campus protests at the Ivy League school. Free Beacon
🌎 Treasury Sanctions Mexico’s La Nueva Familia Michoacana Drug Cartel, Issues New Fentanyl Advisory. The OFAC sanctions target powerful cartel trafficking fentanyl into the U.S., FinCEN Advisory provides crucial information to help financial institutions. U.S. Treasury
🌎 This Judge Made Houston the Top Bankruptcy Court. Then He Helped His Girlfriend Cash In. Law firm Kirkland & Ellis brought multibillion-dollar cases to David R. Jones’s court, aided by a local attorney who lived with the judge. WSJ
🌎 EU approves first-ever sanctions on Russian gas. It’s a notable evolution in strategy for the EU, and came after Germany and Hungary held up a deal for weeks. Politico
🔑 Industry News: Refine Intelligence Launches Digital Customer Outreach for Check Fraud Prevention Refine Intelligence
🌎 How Putin Rebuilt Russia’s War Machine With Help From U.S. Adversaries. Iran, North Korea and China are supplying the people and know-how to tool up Russia’s factories and churn out arms for the war. WSJ
🌎 UK Regulator FCA Arrests Two People Associated With 1B-Pound Illegal Crypto Business. The FCA said it will do everything in its power to stop crypto firms from operating illegally. CoinDesk
🌎 Nigerian court dismisses escaped Binance exec’s human rights suit. Tigran Gambaryan filed a similar suit, but the court adjourned the hearing to next month. DL News
🚩 Binance Fined $2.2M by India’s Financial Intelligence Unit CoinDesk
🌎 Canada lists IRGC as a terrorist entity. The decision sends a strong message that Canada will use all tools at its disposal to combat the terrorist activity of the IRGC. Canada Government
🌎 Should Hundreds of Millions in Seized Assets Go to ISIS Victims? The State and Justice Departments disagree about what to do with more than half a billion dollars after a French company pleaded guilty to aiding militants in war-torn Syria. NYT
🌎 Boeing committed ‘the deadliest corporate crime in US history’ and should be fined $24B. Victim families asked the DOJ for an independent corporate monitor to oversee Boeing’s safety measures. CNN
🌎 Religious and cultural mentions removed from names of China’s Xinjiang villages. The name changes are part of a Chinese government attack on the cultural identity of Uyghurs. AP
🌎 Mexican cartels offering pricey VIP package for migrants trying to get into US. Everything in this underground world functions by a code the cartels give their VIP customers. USAT
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