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He misled the firm's board

Regulators fear rush to the exit

A former JP Morgan investment adviser has been accused of stealing at least $20m from clients and using the money to trade on his own account and to pay off his mortgage.

JP Morgan is facing accusations that it hired the children of influential Chinese officials to help the investment bank win business in China.

Advisory group, deVere, has been granted an Investment Adviser licence from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating whether insider trading took place in Heinz shares ahead of the food giant's historic deal with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Three people have pleaded guilty to insider dealing following a prosecution brought about by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) relating to Blue Index, although two other employees caught up in the same case have been acquitted.

Goldman Sachs has been fined $22m by a US regulator for failing to prevent upcoming research from its analysts being passed on to its top clients.

Britons rank second in a list of non-US nationals most keen to tip America's regulators off about suspected financial crime, according to the first annual report on the Securities & Exchange Commission's whistleblower program.