Four boats seized by U.S. authorities from imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff and his right-hand man, Frank DiPascali, sold for nearly $2 million at auction on Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation increased its holdings in Waste Management, Coca Cola, McDonald's and Berkshire Hathaway Class B in the third quarter, causing the total value of the fund to rise by about $2.6 billion, according to an SEC filing.

Potential losses to U.S. investors in Texas financier Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scheme are far more widespread than initially feared, according to a new analysis obtained by CNBC.

Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson's firm took a stake in the bank, while cutting holdings in Bank of America and its interest in Goldman Sachs, according to a regulatory filing on Friday.

McGraw-Hill is committed to its Standard & Poor's unit, and welcomes tougher regulation aimed at further transparency and accountability in the credit ratings industry, its chairman said on Wednesday.

A former enforcement lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pleaded guilty to impersonating two people to help confessed Ponzi scheme operator Marc Dreier defraud hedge funds.

Zvi Goffer could have passed for Tony Soprano when he warned confederates in his alleged insider-trading ring that "someone's going to jail."

Federal and state authorities announced charges against 14 new defendants in the Galleon insider-trading scandal.

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JPMorgan Chase has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million over federal regulators' charges that it made unlawful payments to friends of public officials to win municipal bond business in Jefferson County, Ala.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's longtime auditor has entered a guilty plea in a federal court in Manhattan.

Jailed swindler Bernie Madoff said it was "amazing" that he didn't get caught sooner in his multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, and that everything the SEC did to investigate him prior to 2006 was a waste of time, according to a jailhouse interview he gave to SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz.

Potential losses to U.S. investors in Texas financier Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scheme are far more widespread than initially feared, according to a new analysis obtained by CNBC.

The court-appointed receiver who is trying to unwind the alleged Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme says he has identified $1.5 billion in assets that could be returned to victims.

Credit-rating agencies would be more tightly regulated under legislation approved on Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee.