Lawyers

• U.S. Dept of Justice initiates criminal probe against Deutsche Bank: Bloomberg

  The United States Department of Justice is investigating trades worth billions of dollars that Germany's Deutsche Bank AG made on behalf of its Russian clients, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

• New York regulator Lawsky aims at Deutsche Bank over Libor

  Benjamin Lawsky, New York state's financial services regulator, has added himself to the regulators investigating Deutsche Bank AG for manipulation of the Libor benchmark borrowing rate, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.

• Former risk chief warned Deutsche Bank on stress test, emails show

  In the weeks leading up to the U.S. Federal Reserve's annual stress test of major banks, a former risk executive of Deutsche Bank AG repeatedly warned senior managers of the German bank's U.S. unit that they were painting a far too rosy picture of the bank's health.

• U.S., Wells Fargo not as 'optimistic' about lawsuit settlement: lawyer

  Wells Fargo & Co and the U.S. Department of Justice are "no longer as optimistic" about settling a lawsuit accusing the country's largest mortgage lender of fraud, a lawyer for the bank said on Tuesday.

• Silver price-fixing lawsuits consolidated in Manhattan federal court

  Litigation alleging that Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of Nova Scotia and HSBC Plc [HSBCUK.UL] illegally fixed the price of silver has been centralized in Manhattan federal court.

• U.S., UK regulators might settle Deutsche Bank Libor case this year

  U.S. and British regulators are in a plan to settle the Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) Libor case in the next few months as they hope to extract major penalties from the bank for alleged manipulation of the benchmark interest rate, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.

• Deutsche Bank AG Japan salesman pleads guilty to bribery

  Shigeru Echigo, Deutsche Bank AG Japan salesman plead guilty to bribery but said such activities were condoned and even encouraged in the brokerage firm.

• Scotiabank, four others to face allegations of gold price manipulation

  Trader Kevin Maher claimed in his lawsuit filed on Tuesday that Scotiabank, Barclays Plc, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc and Societe Generale SA had manipulated the London gold fix benchmark based on press reports and a draft research paper, Financial Post said.

• Dubai regulator receives files of Deutsche Bank's wealth management unit

  The wealth management unit of Deutsche Bank in Dubai is currently under investigation by the Dubai Financial Services Authority regarding issues related to violations in the financial regulator's rules, Bloomberg said in a report.