SEC: Deutsche Bank to pay a $9.5 million penalty
October 13th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Deutsche Bank Securities has agreed to pay a $9.5 million penalty for failing to properly safeguard material nonpublic information generated by its research analysts. Deutsche Bank also published an improper research ...
CUSTOMER SUPPORT OFFICERS
October 11th, 2016
Industry: Financial Services Introduction: XTrade, an Investment firm regulated by Cysec, is an innovative company which has developed a robust and unique web trading platform for foreign currency trading. Description: XTrade is an award-winning provider of desktop and mobile trading services, featuring ...
Credit Suisse Paying $90 Million to settle charges
October 6th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Credit Suisse AG has agreed to pay a $90 million penalty and admit wrongdoing to settle charges that it misrepresented how it determined a key performance metric of its wealth management ...
CySec imposed an administrative fine of €100.000 to a natural person
October 4th, 2016
The Board of the Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform that, at the meeting held on 9 September 2016, decided to impose an administrative fine of €100.000 on Mr. Danny Rothman (or Mr. Daniel Rubinstein) ...
CySec fined Administrative Services Provider
October 3rd, 2016
The Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a press releases to inform that, at the meeting held on September 19th, 2016, decided to impose an administrative fine of €5.000 on the ASP Teos Corporate Services Ltd. According to CySec’s announcement, ...
Oil Services Company Paying $140 Million Penalty for Accounting Fraud
September 28th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that oil services company Weatherford International has agreed to pay a $140 million penalty to settle charges that it inflated earnings by using deceptive income tax accounting. Two of the company’s senior ...
Merrill Lynch Charged With Trading Controls Failures That Led to Mini-Flash Crashes
September 27th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay a $12.5 million penalty for maintaining ineffective trading controls that failed to prevent erroneous orders from being sent to the markets and causing mini-flash crashes. An ...
Accounting software maker prepares for IPO
September 21st, 2016
Accounting software maker BlackLine Inc is preparing for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $1 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. An IPO of Los Angeles-based BlackLine, which the ...
BCSC warns regarding Binary Uno
September 20th, 2016
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a warning to inform regarding binary options trading platform Binary Uno, operated by DOM Technology Services Ltd (the Parties) and claims to be based in London, England. BCSC became aware that a British Columbia (BC) resident was ...
Ernst & Young, Former Partners Charged With Violating Auditor Independence Rules
September 20th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that public accounting firm Ernst & Young has agreed to pay $9.3 million to settle charges that two of the firm’s audit partners got too close to their clients on a personal ...
