Search Results for: Fraud
SEC gives $300,000 Whistleblower Award to Internal Auditor
September 1st, 2014
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission is rewarding a corporate whistleblower whose actual job it is to blow the whistle on a company’s internal missteps. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it would provide a ...
Bank of America seeks to void verdict in $1.27 billion ‘Hustle’ case
August 29th, 2014
Bank of America Corp on Thursday asked a federal judge to throw out a jury verdict finding it liable for fraud over defective mortgages sold by its Countrywide unit that resulted in a $1.27 billion penalty. Bank of America ...
FCA warns against boiler room clone firm
August 28th, 2014
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator has issued a warning against boiler room “London Capital Group Asia (Clone of FCA authorised firm) / LCGA Fxplatform / LCG Asia / LCG Forex” (www.lcga-fx.com / www.lcga.asia.lid-cn / http://indo.lcga-fx.com / www.fxlcg.com), ...
JPMorgan and Other U.S. Banks Struck by Cyberattack
August 28th, 2014
JPMorgan Chase and a number of other United States banks, including at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series of coordinated attacks this month, according to four people briefed on a continuing investigation into the crimes. The hackers ...
Citigroup facing restrictions on sales of hedge fund investments
August 22nd, 2014
Citigroup Inc has been sending hedge fund firms letters informing them that it cannot sell investments in hedge funds and private-equity funds to clients after a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street Journal reported. The ...
FCA warns investors against clone firms
August 21st, 2014
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator has issued a warning against “AMT Markets” (www.amt-markets.co.uk) and “Euromax Finance Limited” (www.eurofinance.com) informing the investors that the two companies are the clones of the original ones. AMT Markets is the clone ...
Macy’s settles racial profiling allegations from shoppers
August 21st, 2014
Macy’s is to pay $650,000 (£390,000) to settle claims it racially profiled and detained ethnic minority shoppers at its flagship Manhattan shop. Under a deal with New York’s attorney-general Macy’s agreed to a series of changes at its 42 ...
Swedish regulator warns against unauthorised firm
August 20th, 2014
Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, has published a statement in order to warn investors against dealing with unauthorised firms. As a result, Glacier Bay Capital LLC has not received authorisation from Finansinspektionen and therefore is not entitled to ...
SEC charges Former Bank Executive and Friend With Insider Trading
August 19th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a former bank executive in Massachusetts and his friend with insider trading in advance of the bank’s acquisition of another financial institution. The SEC alleges that Patrick O’Neill, then a senior ...
Ex-Rabobank trader guilty in Libor probe
August 19th, 2014
A former employee of Rabobank on Monday became the second of the Dutch bank’s ex-traders to plead guilty in a criminal plot to manipulate a global financial benchmark used to set rates on trillions of dollars in loans. United ...
