Search Results for: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Alstom Gets Break on Fine
February 2nd, 2015
Court Granted Delay in $772 Million Payment Because of Possible Business Impact When the U.S. Justice Department announced a record $772 million foreign-bribery settlement with Alstom SA in December, there was a hitch: The French engineering company couldn’t pay ...
FXCM announced on Stockholder Rights Plan
February 2nd, 2015
FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), a leading online provider of foreign exchange, or FX, trading and related services, announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Stockholder Rights Plan (the “Rights Plan”) and declared a dividend distribution of one right ...
Hackers With Wall Street Savvy Stealing M&A Data
December 2nd, 2014
Hackers with Wall Street expertise have stolen merger-and-acquisition information from more than 80 companies for more than a year, according to security consultants who shared their findings with law enforcement. A group dubbed FIN4 by researchers at FireEye Inc. ...
SEC Charges Unregistered Broker With Stealing From Investors in Fraudulent Day Trading Scheme
November 19th, 2014
The SEC alleges that Albert J. Scipione and his business partner solicited investors to establish accounts at their company called Traders Café for the purposes of day trading, which entails the rapid buying and selling of stocks throughout the ...
SEC Seeks $329 Million From Wylys in Illegal Trading Case
November 13th, 2014
Samuel Wyly and the estate of his brother Charles should pay $329 million for using offshore accounts to hide stock holdings and engage in illegal trading, regulators argued in seeking to increase the penalty ordered by a judge. Wyly ...
SEC to Impose Penalties More Often in Muni Fraud Cases
November 11th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to impose penalties more frequently in the $3.7 trillion municipal securities market. “An enforcement model with no penalties was not sustainable,” Andrew Ceresney, the SEC’s director of enforcement, said during a panel ...
SEC fines 13 firms over sale of Puerto Rico junk bonds
November 4th, 2014
Units of 13 major Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan and UBS, improperly sold bonds from Puerto Rico’s landmark March junk deal to retail investors who may not have understood the debt’s riskiness, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said ...
SEC investigates CMS employees in insider-trading case
October 29th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether employees at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) leaked information to traders, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the investigation. Authorities have interviewed nearly a ...
SEC probing private equity performance figures
October 29th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people ...
Samuel Wyly in Bankruptcy Facing $400 Million Forfeiture
October 21st, 2014
The U.S. businessman Samuel Wyly, who may have to forfeit as much as $400 million after being found liable for using offshore trusts to hide stock holdings and make illegal trades, filed for bankruptcy. Wyly, 80, listed assets and debt ...
