Search Results for: Financial Conduct Authority
Interdealer broker to pay $7 Million
December 22nd, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against defendants TFS-ICAP LLC and TFS-ICAP Ltd., interdealer brokers located in New York and London, requiring them to ...
iSignthis released Business Update
October 27th, 2020
iSignthis announced its 6th consecutive positive quarterly operating cash flow contained in the Appendix 4C and its quarterly business activity report. The Company is profitable, with more than 110 staff between Australia, UK, Lithuania, Cyprus, Malta, Netherlands, and Israel. ...
Civil enforcement action filing in $4.75 Million Forex Ponzi Scheme
September 23rd, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a civil enforcement action in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against 10 defendants in a multi-level $4.75 million off-exchange foreign currency (forex) Ponzi ...
Individuals and companies charged in $165 million global Binary Options fraud scheme
September 4th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on 02 September, 2020 the filing of a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas charging six individuals and four companies with operating a fraudulent ...
Instagram users ripped off for £400k in a month in Forex scam
September 4th, 2020
Instagram users are being ripped off by investment con artists – with UK victims handing over nearly £400,000 in just one month. Britain’s national fraud reporting centre was bombared with 164 complaints in June alone, representing a total loss ...
A resident of Denmark charged in $1.5 million Forex fraud scheme
May 25th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform about the filing of an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging defendant Casper Mikkelsen, a/k/a “Carsten Nielsen,” a/k/a ...
FCA secures orders for victims of unauthorised share scheme; Nearly £3.62m in restitution
May 7th, 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has issued today a press release to inform that the High Court today ordered four individuals and one company to pay ...
FCA becomes AML and CTF supervisor of UK cryptoasset activities
January 14th, 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in UK has issued an announcement to inform that the FCA is now the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF) supervisor for businesses carrying out certain cryptoasset activities under the amended Money Laundering, ...
Teenage trader lost £500,000 as he
led luxury lifestyle with supercars
October 3rd, 2019
A teenager who drove luxury cars while claiming to be a millionaire trader lost £500,000 of investors’ cash and has been reported to authorities. Morgan Reeve, from Hunstanton, set up Morgan FX Limited in July last year and bragged ...
$125 million offering fraud; ongoing international trading program
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against three individuals and three entities in connection with an alleged fraudulent, ongoing international trading program ...
