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U.S. House lawmakers approved legislation crafted to prevent federal regulators and prosecutors from pressuring financial institutions to terminate their relationships with clients who process payments for pawnshops, telemarketers and other purportedly high-risk businesses. More The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday fined Miami-based E.S. Financial Services $1 million for failing to verify the identities of various non-U.S. citizens that conducted more than $23 million in transactions through a brokerage account opened by an unidentified Central American bank affiliated with the firm. E.S. Financial Services is now known as Brickell Global Markets. More European Central Bank officials have asked investigators...