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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, …

Goldman Avoids Damages in Dragon System’s Merger Negligence Claim

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 …

Goldman Avoids Class Action Over Gender Bias Claim; Court Allows Arbitration

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, …

Aspen Announces $150 million Accelerated Share Repurchase Program

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 …