* S&P Global is looking for potential bolt-on acquisitions for under $100 million, CFO Ewout Steenbergen said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal's CFO Journal.
* The North American Securities Administrators Association launched a series of enforcement actions against fraudulent initial coin offerings and other cryptocurrency investment products since the beginning of May as part of its "Operation Cryptosweep."
* Wells Fargo is ready to boost lending for car sales after pulling back from the business in mid-2017, CEO Tim Sloan told Bloomberg Television. The company, meanwhile, laid off 22 employees from its foreign exchange business, a source for Bloomberg News says.
* First Midwest Bancorp plans to close 19 locations across the company's footprint and cut about 7% of the total workforce in its cost-cutting effort.
* Private equity firm Warburg Pincus made the highest bid to acquire a 26% stake in IndiaFirst Life Insurance, with the deal value expected to be about $150 million, sources told India's financial daily newspaper Mint.
* Online lender Kabbage is planning to launch its payment processing services by the end of 2018, President Kathryn Petralia said in an interview with Reuters.
* The New York Stock Exchange named COO Stacey Cunningham its first female president, replacing Thomas Farley, parent company Intercontinental Exchange told the WSJ. Farley is leaving the exchange to lead a special purpose acquisition company, called Far Point, a source for the publication says.
* Activist investor Carl Icahn has sued AmTrust Financial Services over the company's pending deal to go private. Arca Capital said it intends to work with Icahn and other minority shareholders to oppose the deal.
* Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued a cease-and-desist order against Microsoft to stop using its captive insurer, Cypress Insurance, the Insurance Journal reports.
* And the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will hold an executive session at 10 a.m. ET today to consider S. 2098, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2017.
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