Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS banker who provided the Internal Revenue Service with evidence that the Swiss bank was helping U.S. citizens evade taxes, will receive $104 million in a whistleblower award. Mr. Birkenfeld, who said he once concealed diamonds in a toothpaste tube on behalf of a client, was released from prison on Aug. 1 after serving part of a 40-month sentence after confessing that he had forgotten to blow the whistle on himself.

Deutsche Bank is lagging behind its European peers when it comes to meeting new regulatory capital requirements, according to Bloomberg. The bank may cut jobs and reduce pay ratios under a restructuring plan announced this week.

A German court paved the way for the European Central Bank to begin a new program to buy sovereign debt, dismissing a lawsuit that sought to delay the plan.

Two-thirds of economists polled by Bloomberg think that the Federal Reserve will announce a new round of bond purchases tomorrow.

More details in the plea agreement signed by Peregrine Financial Group founder Russell Wasendorf Sr., who faces up to 50 years in prison under a deal with prosecutors.

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Plaintiffs say that private equity firms including KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Bain Capital colluded to tamp down prices on buyout deals, according to a complaint filed in Massachusetts Federal District Court. The New York Times went to court to get the documents, which Bain lawyers worried would get washed into the election news cycle.

No one in France believes Bernard Arnault, the Louis Vuitton chief and the country's richest man, when he says he'll keep paying taxes in France once he's received Belgian nationality, according to The Financial Times. French president François Hollande has promised to tax income above 1 million euros at 75 percent.

Russell Wasendorf Sr.

There are lost assets and found assets in the bankruptcy of Peregrine Financial Group, the Iowa-based futures dealer than folded in July after the firm's founder said in a note left before his attempted suicide that he'd used a color printer to hide that his company's bank account was missing some $200 million in client funds.

Lost assets included 304 silver coins depicting characters from the children's TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, valued at about $20,000; Found assets included a baseball glove signed by former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre and baseball hall-of-famer Johnny Bench, all of which may sounds strange if you haven't been following the saga, which has included tales of Peregrine founder Russell Wasendorf's shotgun wedding, wizardry with Adobe Photoshop and catastrophic experience in Romanian real estate. Still, you take what you can get, and today the Peregrine trustee got $700,000 from the National Futures Association, an amount equal to the fine paid by Peregrine to the self-regulating organization in February. According to The Wall Street Journal:

The fine was part of a settlement of charges related to an alleged Ponzi scheme run by a customer of the brokerage. The agency charged that Peregrine didn't properly monitor and report suspicious activity, and the firm agreed to the fine without admitting or denying the allegations.

Now, if we could only track down that crafty real estate agent.

Update: Mr. Wasendorf has reached a plea deal in which "he admits to mail fraud, embezzlement and making false statements," according to Bloomberg.