Articles by Patrick Clark and Jonathan Browning

Marriott Faces $124M Fine for Massive Data Breach Under New Data Protection Rules

The massive hacking of Marriott International Inc. reservation databases could lead to a 99 million-pound ($124 million) fine as the U.K. cracked down on privacy breaches with its second major penalty notice in two days. The cyber attack, which Marriott …

Ex-AIG Employees, Seeking Back-Bonuses of $100M, Win British Court Ruling

A group of former traders and managers at American International Group Inc. won a London judge’s backing in their battle to obtain $100 million dating back to the financial crisis, after he said that the insurance giant couldn’t put forward …

2 Ex-AIG Employees Win $10M in France, Ahead of Separate $100M Bonus Case in UK

Two former American International Group Inc. employees won awards totaling about $10 million after French judges chastised the insurance giant for trying to block the payment of bonuses they’d already earned to cover for its huge losses. The Paris court …

British Hacker Gets 4 Years in Jail for TalkTalk Data Breach

A British man who hacked TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc, blackmailed executives and offered to supply customer data has been jailed for four years. Daniel Kelley, 22, was sentenced after pleading guilty to 11 charges of hacking and blackmailing TalkTalk, London …

Big 4 Accounting Firms Should Separate Auditing, Consulting Work: UK Lawmakers

The “Big Four” accounting firms should be forced to legally separate their “cash cow” consulting work from their auditing businesses, a U.K. Parliament committee said Tuesday. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, EY and KPMG — which between them control more than 90 percent …

UK Insurer Aviva Prepares for ‘Hard Brexit’ by Transferring Assets from UK

Aviva Plc asked a London court to approve the transfer of assets totaling 9 billion euros ($10.2 billion), saying the uncertainty from Brexit was “intensifying” as it joined other insurers and banks triggering contingency plans. Aviva asked Judge Richard Snowden …

Metals Financing Fraud Lawsuits Reveal Risks of Relying on Paper Receipts

When the man running one of London’s biggest metals brokerages found a new client who wanted to finance large volumes of nickel held in warehouses in Asia, he thought the deal promised major rewards. Less than a year later, he …

UK Household Insurers, Banks Face Action for Overcharging Customers

Providers in the U.K.’s markets for cash savings, mortgages, insurance, mobile phone contracts and broadband are burdening customers with a “loyalty penalty” of around 4 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) a year, the Competition and Markets Authority said. Vulnerable people, including …

Deutsche Bank, BofA, JPM Drawn into Danske Money Laundering Probe: Sources

Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America Corp. have been contacted by U.S. criminal investigators for information about transactions they handled for a small bank branch in Estonia that’s at the center of one of the biggest money-laundering investigations in …

Former AIG Employees Win UK Court Ruling over $100M in Back Bonuses

A group of former employees at American International Group Inc. won a U.K. court ruling that may pave the way for them to be paid $100 million in bonuses dating back to the financial crisis. The 23 former traders, analysts …