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ASIC warns against unauthorised firm
September 15th, 2014
ASIC has issued a warning to consumers to be wary of a fake website promoting foreign exchange broker, First Forex. First Forex and related entities Fifx and FiFX Global promote their services at www.fifx.com and falsely claim that their ...
Martoma’s insider-trading conviction upheld
September 5th, 2014
The insider trading conviction of former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was upheld Thursday by a federal judge. Dealing a legal setback to the former financial lieutenant for billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, U.S. District Court Judge ...
India to face a new technique for gold
August 1st, 2014
India is scrambling to crack down on a new gold smuggling tactic that it fears could accelerate a flood of illegal imports of the precious metal into the world’s second-biggest buyer. India — whose appetite for gold is only ...
Bank of America Hit With $1.3 Billion Penalty for Mortgage Fraud
July 31st, 2014
Bank of America was hit with almost $1.3 billion in civil penalties Wednesday for a housing meltdown scam run by a subsidiary that a jury found intentionally sold bad mortgages to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Bank of America ...
Law suits launched against law firms across US over mortgage advice
July 24th, 2014
Federal agencies and 15 states have initiated 41 law suits against law firms and lawyers concerning alleged scams over the provision of legal help to struggling homeowners. Suits have been brought, for instance, against Florida law firms Hoffman Law ...
FBI sentences man for a $3.4 Million Forex trading fraud
July 17th, 2014
The American Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) has announced that a Quincy man swindled more than two dozen investors out of $3.4 million in an exotic foreign exchange fraud run from his Quincy home. Marcellus Lopes Lee was indicted in ...
SEBI bars Satyam’s B Ramalinga Raju, 4 others from capital markets for 14 years
July 16th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Tuesday barred former Satyam Computer Services, founder-chairman B Ramalinga Raju and four others from the market for 14 years for perpetuating the biggest accounting fraud in the country. The capital market ...
Despite Exposure of Madoff Fraud, New Ponzi Schemes Emerge
July 11th, 2014
When the money was rolling in from investors, Scott W. Rothstein, a lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., bought his wife, Kimberly, more than $1 million in jewelry, including an opulent 12-carat yellow diamond ring. He lived in a multimillion-dollar ...
Not guilty plea for Philippine senator
June 30th, 2014
A Philippine anti-graft court entered a not guilty plea Monday for the second of three prominent senators arraigned in the country’s biggest corruption trial in more than a decade. Senator Jinggoy Estrada, son of former president and now Manila ...
Illegal Bitcoin IPO Actually Worked Out Pretty Well for Investors
June 4th, 2014
Today the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down a bitcoin investing scam that, as bitcoin investing scams go, is disappointingly un-scammy. A very bitcoiny guy named Erik Voorhees1 started some very bitcoiny companies called SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds,2 and he ...
