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Bank of America nears to settle claims from its powerful investors to pay them $8.5 billion, according to the sources familiar with the situation. These investors lost their money on mortgage-backed securities.

Such a deal would encourage investors to seek compensation from other lenders like Wells Fargo & Co and JPMorgan Chase & Co, analysts believe.

$153.6 million fine would be paid by JPMorgan Chase & Co to settle the litigation with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC accused the banking giant of defrauding investors who bought mortgage securities sold just before the nation's housing market collapsed.

The regulator supported its arguments in the complaint with the excerpts from internal communications of JPMorgan that showed bankers sold a collateralized mortgage obligation in 2007 to ensure that it could get credit-scarred mortgage securities off its books.

A provider of mobile payments Billing Revolution announced its $6.6 million in Series B funding, led by global venture capital firm, DCM, and returning founding investor, SK Telecom Ventures.

Billing Revolution allows mobile users to buy digital and physical items across all mobile operating systems with a single click, solving an important pain point and adding ease of use for consumers in mobile payments.

Industrial nations risk spoiling the recovery after averting a severe depression two years ago, thinks a CEO of the world's largest bond investor. Mohamed El-Erian, head of Pacific Management investment Co., or Pimco, believes that if these nations are not careful they risk slipping into a lost decade of low growth, high unemployment and welfare destruction.

As it has become known, the court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's investment company, Irving Picard, is going to file new lawsuits to recover funds from investors who suffered from the Ponzi scheme. 

The latest events on the online investment market when a number of market leaders left the battlefield without saying “Good bye” have left the Internet community shocked and embarrassed. However the shock therapy cannot last forever and little by little people started to search for new heroes. There are a lot of online services on the market today and the majority of them are promising. One of such projects is ReProFinance, offering asset management and trading services.

Two hedge fund veterans who worked at SAC Capital Advisors, LP and Pequot Capital Management, long considered among the industry's most successful, are launching their own firm next month, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc warned it could struggle to hire and retain key staff after the UK government demanded control of bonuses as a condition for insuring its bad debts.

Bailed-out RBS, set to become 84 percent state-owned after the latest aid package, detailed the unprecedented direct intervention ahead of a shareholder meeting later this month to vote on its participation in the state-backed Asset Protection Scheme (APS) for toxic loans.

According to IMF official Wednesday statement, Dubai World crisis is supposed to slack United Arab Emirates economic recovery.

 Director for the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department Masood Ahmed reported that IMF was looking at revising down its outlook for the UAE's non-oil GDP to "significantly lower" than 3% it had projected in October. That would still be higher than the close to zero forecast the IMF has forecasted for the region in 2009.

The finance professors at Claremont McKenna College and the University of Washington conducted a new survey of identical twins showed that investor behavior is largely determined by nature rather than nurture.
According to the study of Washington's Stephan Siegel and Amir Barnea and Henrik Cronqvist of McKenna, genetics account for one-third, on average, and as much as 45% of investor behavior. Other factors previously studied, such as age, gender, education, wealth and home ownership, when combined explain only five to 10% of investor behavior.

JP Morgan Asset Management has launched an online wealth management service called WealthManager+, which will offer investors direct access to a wide range of OEICs, investment trusts, SICAVs and a large range of UK equities and bonds, as well as a range of unique financial education and planning tools.

Investors preferred safer assets such as the dollar to stocks on Thursday relying on the signs of a depressed economic recovery. Major indexes dropped about 1%: the Dow Johns fell 93.87 points, or 0.9%, to 10,332.44; the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 14.90 points, or 1.3%, to 1094.90; the Nasdaq composite index fell 36.32 points, or 1.7%, to 2156.82. Energy and material stocks logged the biggest losses as a strong dollar sent commodity prices tumbling.

 As The Wall Street Journal reported, Goldman Sachs Group Inc is in negotiations to purchase millions of dollars of tax credits from Fannie Mae. But the deal could be blocked by the U.S. Treasury. Goldman hopes to get approbation in the nearest days but the administration is cautious about approving a deal. The main apprehensions are caused by the fact that the deal would help the bank reduce its tax bill.

 On the official blog of PayPal General Manager of MicroPlace, a PayPal company that’s addressing global poverty, reported that the company launched a Facebook quiz that identifies what kind of investor you are.

Through MicroPlace inspired persons can make their contribution to help the world’s working poor develop their own business. Investments made by PayPal users can help a poor person start a business, generate income, build their savings and work their way out of poverty.

 TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation recently asked a panel of its retail clients for an “every day investor’s” perspective on the markets, the economy and whether recovery is in sight. The result – as the markets have climbed in recent months, so too has investor sentiment.