JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $1.7 billion to resolve U.S. claims that it played a role in facilitating Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, leader of a 50-state probe of foreclosure practices, said a settlement is “closer” and that state and federal officials want a monitor to ensure that banks keep their promises.

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New York and other states can enforce their fair-lending laws against federally chartered banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The 5-4 ruling rejected arguments that federal law gives the U.S. ...

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Charter Communications’s bankruptcy will shift control from Chairman Paul Allen, prompting a default under an $8.5 billion loan and making the company’s reorganization untenable, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said. Charter, the fourth-largest U.S. cable company, filed for bankruptcy last week ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether New York and other states can enforce their anti-discrimination laws against federally chartered banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. The justices will hear arguments from New York ...

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