Search Results for: Financial Conduct Authority
HSBC voluntarily agrees to provide approximately £4m redress for historical debt collection practices
January 23rd, 2017
HSBC has voluntarily agreed to set up a redress scheme for customers who may have suffered detriment by paying an unreasonable debt collection charge imposed by HFC Bank Ltd (HFC) and John Lewis Financial Services Limited (JLFS), the Financial ...
CySec informs that domains/websites were inadvertently included in past warning for unauthorized domains/websites
January 17th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform the investors and the public at large that the domains www.aaafx.com, www.zulutrade.com,1 www.admiralmarkets.com2 and www.yesfx.com.cy3 were inadvertently included in the Αnnex of the announcement issued by ...
Two sentenced to imprisonment suspended in insider dealing case
January 16th, 2017
In a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Manjeet Mohal, a former employee of Logica Plc, has today been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment suspended for two years in respect of two counts of insider dealing. He ...
Company and individuals to pay over $11.6 million for Forex Fraud Scheme
January 10th, 2017
Federal Court Orders Defendants EJS Capital Management, LLC, Alex Vladimir Ekdeshman, and Edward J. Servider to Pay $11.6 Million in Sanctions for Forex Fraud Scheme Relief Defendants Alisa Ekdeshman, Executive Services of Florida, LLC, Executive Management of Montana, Inc., ...
FCA warns for a clone of Gain Capital UK
January 9th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to inform investors and public that fraudsters are using the details of firms the FCA authorises to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. According ...
ICM Capital Offers £1,000,000 Insurance for FX and CFD Traders
January 6th, 2017
ICM Capital today announces it has enhanced its client-fund protection to cover £1,000,000. This new insurance is available to all ICM Capital live account holders at no additional cost and is underwritten by QBE Underwriting Limited and other participating ...
FxPro shelves its IPO as FCA crackdown looms
January 5th, 2017
Currency trading firm FxPro shelves float as FCA crackdown looms The online trading platform has shelved its IPO indefinitely amid FCA plans to curb spread-betting risks, Sky News learns. One of the biggest privately owned currency trading brokers operating ...
Individual charged for soliciting at least $906,000 in a Forex fraud
December 29th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging Brett G. Hartshorn of Sarasota, Florida, with fraudulently soliciting and/or managing at least $906,000 ...
Former BlackRock Manager sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for insider dealing
December 22nd, 2016
In a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Mark Lyttleton, a former Equity Portfolio Manager at BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, has today been sentenced to 18 months reduced with credit to 12 months on two counts ...
CFTC Orders Goldman Sachs to Pay $120 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation
December 22nd, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order today filing and settling charges against The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and Goldman, Sachs & Co. (collectively, Goldman or the Bank). The Order finds that, beginning in January 2007 ...
