Search Results for: commodity
BNP Paribas ordered to pay $90 Million penalty; The reason?
August 31st, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (BNP Paribas or the Bank) for attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark and requiring BNP Paribas to pay a $90 million ...
Forex trader and firm charged with fraud and registration violations
August 31st, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a federal court enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Jason Amada of New York, New York, and Amada Capital Management LLC (ACM), a ...
Individual and a Company fined in virtual currencies fraud
August 27th, 2018
A New York federal court entered final judgment ordering Patrick K. McDonnell of Staten Island, New York, and CabbageTech, Corp. d/b/a Coin Drop Markets (CDM), McDonnell’s New York-based company, to pay over $1.1 million in civil monetary penalties and ...
Futures Broker fined for engaging in a fraudulent trading scheme
August 13th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Christian Robert Mayer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, for engaging in a fraudulent trading scheme involving unauthorized trades in cattle, crude oil and wheat futures ...
Macroeconomics Has Lost Its Way
August 3rd, 2018
The father of modern macroeconomics was Keynes. Before Keynes there were macro considerations, which were firmly grounded in human action, the personal preferences and choices exercised by individuals in the context of their own earnings and profits. In ...
Deloitte latest Big Four player to offer legal services
August 3rd, 2018
Deloitte Legal International will be a fully licensed foreign law practice independent from other Deloitte entities serving clients across South East Asia. Deloitte’s latest venture will see them offering legal services through a new foreign law practice. The top ...
Forex dealer sued for Registration and Disclosure violations
August 1st, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah against JAFX, Ltd. (JAFX), a/k/a JAFX, EOOD, of Sofia, Bulgaria and Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The ...
Virtual currencies spark real concern about national security threat
July 31st, 2018
U.S. government officials are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by the rise of cryptocurrencies. In the past week, the Department of Justice, congressional lawmakers and even Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell have voiced concern about ...
CFTC announced $1.9 Million penalty for Bitcoin and Binary options fraud scheme
July 25th, 2018
On July 9, 2018, a New York federal court ordered Dillon Michael Dean (Dean) of Longmont, Colorado, and The Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited (TEH), Dean’s UK-registered company, to pay over $1.9 million in civil monetary penalties and restitution in connection ...
Irish companies to pay a multi-million dollar penalty for illegally trading Binary Options
July 20th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on July 5, 2018, Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an Opinion and Order (Order) against Defendants Intrade The Prediction Market ...
