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Former Quest CEO Wins $14 Million in Insurance Case Against Goldman Sachs Unit

Former Qwest Communications International Inc. chief Joseph Nacchio won a $14.2 million insurance case verdict against a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. unit and a financial adviser who previously helped convict him of insider trading, according to a lawyer who filed …

Berkshire Hathaway Lowers Investment in Goldman Sachs

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reduced its investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. by 13 percent during the third quarter. The billionaire investor’s Omaha, Nebraska-based firm said it owned almost 11 million shares at the end of September, the company …

Reuters Special Report: U.S. Banks Book Trades Abroad to Bypass U.S. Regulation

This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris Barnes, …

Specialty Insurer James River Raises $231M in IPO

James River Group Holdings Ltd., the specialty insurer backed by hedge fund company D.E. Shaw & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., raised $231 million in an initial public offering, pricing its shares below the marketed range. Existing investors Shaw …

Goldman, JPMorgan CEOs Pursued Private Rescue for AIG

The heads of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. told federal regulators days ahead of the 2008 government bailout of American International Group Inc. that they were putting together a private rescue of the insurance giant, a …

Judge Denies New York Fed Employee Whistleblower Protection Over Firing

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by a former bank examiner who claimed the Fed fired her after she refused to change certain findings about Goldman Sachs Group Inc. U.S. …

Prudential Fraud Claims Against Goldman Sachs Over Securities Dismissed

Prudential Financial Inc. agreed to dismiss its claims that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. engaged in fraud and racketeering in selling $375 million of residential mortgage-backed securities, a court order shows. U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton signed a dismissal order yesterday …

Canada Regulator Urges Re/Insurers to Use Cat Bonds after Flood Disaster

Canada’s banking regulator is urging insurers to sell catastrophe bonds for the first time to cut the risk of natural disasters, such as the record floods that inundated swathes of downtown Calgary in June. Climate changes are making weather-related losses …

Insurance Tech Firm Ebix Reportedly Under U.S. Review for Possible Money Laundering

Federal investigators are reviewing Ebix Inc.’s cross-border financial transactions to see whether the Atlanta-based software company engaged in money laundering, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Ebix fell $2.50 to $9.29 or 21 percent, at 1:43 p.m. …

Ebix, Goldman Sachs Terminate Merger Agreement Amid Probe

Ebix Inc., a supplier of software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that it and an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. have agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement. The merger agreement, announced on May 1, …