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A US postal worker has admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars by cashing people’s checks in the mail.
The U.S. Department of Justice says 35-year-old Kierra Blount has been handed a 30-month prison sentence for stealing checks and identities during her time as an employee of the Post Office, funneling the money into a fraudulent bank account.
Court documents reveal Blount targeted...
Standard Chartered and Coinbase just announced an expanded partnership to develop digital asset services for institutional clients worldwide.
The collaboration focuses on trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions.
The move combines Standard Chartered’s global banking expertise and risk management with Coinbase’s leading institutional platform to offer secure, compliant...
A former employee at a US lender will spend more than two years behind bars for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from people’s accounts.
The Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington says Tacoma resident Aneicia Ford worked with co-conspirators to steal $345,014 from accounts at a credit union.
According to court documents, Ford was employed at the credit union between May...
December 14th, 2025 – Willemstad, Curaçao
class=”ql-align-justify”>Whale.io has officially launched the WHALE NFT collection on Solana, introducing the next phase of the platform’s native token rollout and bringing the community one step closer to the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE).
The WHALE NFTs – presented as fully tradable digital cards – represent a new value layer within the...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has conditionally approved national trust bank charters for five firms focused on digital assets.
The move opens the door for the companies to operate as national trust banks, joining about 60 others under OCC supervision.
The approved firms include two new charters: First National Digital Currency Bank and Ripple National Trust Bank.
Three...
87,565 Americans Warned After Hackers Hit Healthcare Firm, Copy ‘Protected Information’ From Network
A newly disclosed data breach at a US-based healthcare firm has triggered a warning for 87,565 Americans.
According to a filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office, Healthcare Interactive, also known as HCIactive, says hackers gained unauthorized access to sensitive files on its systems over the summer.
The breach potentially compromised names, contact details, dates of birth, Social...
A US bank employee is being banned from working in the financial industry after he allegedly forged customer signatures to steal tens of thousands of dollars.
According to the Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System, Julio Gonzalez, a former employee of Synovus Bank, has been barred from the financial industry for misappropriating $38,000 from customer accounts.
Authorities say that...
A US lender has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit over a major data breach.
According to the settlement administrator’s portal, Purpose Financial will pay $7.75 million to victims of a data breach that happened in 2023 and exposed names, social security numbers and other personally identifying information.
Victims who suffered documented out-of-pocket expenses that can be...
Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer says weak job data may force the Federal Reserve into a more aggressive rate-cutting phase, boosting the stock market once again.
In a new interview on CNBC, Mike Wilson says once the Fed looks into the revisions of the previous months’ employment numbers, the central bank will lower rates despite an already-hot equities market.
“They’re going to realize...
A US bank executive is facing federal fraud charges after allegedly steering his institution into a years-long scheme that enriched friends, neighbors, and favored borrowers while concealing the truth from regulators and his own board.
Prosecutors say Danny Seibel, 54, the former president and CEO of the First National Bank of Lindsay, has been charged by a grand jury in the Western District of...