Morning Scan: Banks Fight Back in Foreign Bribery Probe; Problems at...

Wall Street Journal

Over the past couple of years, federal officials have extracted billions of dollars from banks for mortgage-related issues and other various misdeeds. Now it appears banks may be fighting back a little bit harder, at least in the area of probes into alleged bribing of foreign officials. Unnamed sources say JPMorgan Chase is defending itself against the U.S. government's probe into whether it bribed foreign officials in China by giving jobs to "relatives...