Wall Street’s self-funded watchdog has fined a unit of Barclays $800,000 (€735,000) for violations related to how the bank reported stock trades over a period of more than two years.

Barclays Plc saw the volume of US shares traded at its ‘dark pool’ rise to the highest since it was sued by New York for allegedly lying to customers of the venue. 

Facebook’s initial public offering is getting less friendly with each passing day.

Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its stock market flotation last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative report about the company before the shares started trading.

Texas billionaire and cricket mogul Allen Stanford sought to reassure his employees as US regulators probed his investment firm and Caribbean bank, which have delivered higher-than-average returns to investors and depositors despite the global meltdown.