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The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted
September 9th, 2014
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the New York Times’s Room for Debate ...
Ex-SAC Capital trader gets 9-year sentence
September 9th, 2014
Former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was sentenced to a nine-year prison term Monday for his role in what federal prosecutors called the most profitable insider-trading scheme in U.S. history. Martoma, a former financial lieutenant to billionaire hedge ...
MFSA warns of suspicious Facebook posts
September 5th, 2014
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has recently become aware of a number of posts on Facebook that contain offers of loans to the public in Malta of between €1,000 and €500,000 at an annual interest rate of 3%. ...
Martoma’s insider-trading conviction upheld
September 5th, 2014
The insider trading conviction of former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was upheld Thursday by a federal judge. Dealing a legal setback to the former financial lieutenant for billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, U.S. District Court Judge ...
Stolen JPMorgan data rerouted to Russia
September 4th, 2014
Investigators working on the cyber attack at JPMorgan Chase & Co have found clues that a global network of computers available for hire was used to send the stolen data to a Russian city, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar ...
Second Trial Approaching for Rowland, Ex-Connecticut Governor
September 3rd, 2014
The accusations are similar. The judge will be different. The last time John G. Rowland, the former governor of Connecticut, appeared at the federal courthouse here as a defendant in a criminal corruption trial, he received a sentence of ...
U.S. SEC charges Houston adviser with not disclosing fund payments
September 3rd, 2014
A Houston-based investment advisory firm steered clients to certain mutual funds without disclosing that it was receiving payments from the broker who offered those funds, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a civil fraud complaint on Tuesday. ...
Chinese Company’s Shares Suspended on Critical Report
September 2nd, 2014
Trading in shares of Tianhe Chemicals, which raised about $650 million in a Hong Kong listing in June, was suspended on Tuesday morning after a report on a website affiliated with short-sellers described the company as “one of the ...
Second Alibaba IPO in Rally
September 2nd, 2014
Jack Ma knows how to time an initial public offering. The 49-year-old former school teacher preparing to list Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. during a record rally for U.S. stocks did the same thing seven years ago, when Alibaba.com Ltd. ...
FCA warns against boiler room clone firm
September 1st, 2014
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator has issued a warning against boiler room “City Equities Ltd” (www.cityeq.com), informing the investors that the company appears as the clone firm of the FCA regulated firm, “City Equities Limited” (www.cityequities.com). Fraudsters ...
