December 11, 2014
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 …
October 1, 2014
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 …
April 24, 2014
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. …
January 7, 2014
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 …
September 25, 2013
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 …
August 6, 2013
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. …
June 20, 2013
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, …
June 12, 2013
Sachs Group Inc.’s missteps advising speech-recognition pioneer Dragon Systems Inc. in a merger weren’t egregious enough under the law to warrant damages, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris in Boston let stand a jury verdict for …
March 21, 2013
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Thursday won a U.S. court order allowing it to send a former employee’s gender discrimination dispute to arbitration, rather than being forced to defend against her claims in a class action. In ruling for Goldman, …
February 27, 2013
Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited announced that it has entered into an Accelerated Share Repurchase (ASR) agreement with Goldman, Sachs & Co. to repurchase an aggregate of $150 million of Aspen’s ordinary shares under an accelerated share repurchase program. Aspen …