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European Parliament set to hold inquiry into VW emissions scandal
December 17th, 2015
The European Parliament plans to set up a committee to investigate Volkswagen‘s (VOWG_p.DE) emissions scandal and whether regulatory oversight of the car industry was too lax. Members of the European Parliament will vote on the issue around midday on ...
SEC Files Charges in Multi-Million Dollar Market Manipulation
December 16th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a New Jersey man and his company with illicitly pocketing $13 million from an elaborate pump-and-dump scheme. The SEC alleges that Samuel DelPresto teamed up with others to secretly obtain control of ...
Japan regulator seeks punishment of Ernst-affiliate over Toshiba audit
December 15th, 2015
A Japanese regulatory board recommended punishing an Ernst & Young affiliate after its audit of Toshiba Corp failed to spot Japan’s worst accounting scandal in four years. The Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board, a regulatory panel within Japan’s ...
FCA Warning: IRDM Brokers
December 11th, 2015
FCA has issued a warning to inform investors and public regarding an unregistered financial services firm. FCA notes that: We believe this firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK without our authorisation. Find out why ...
HMRC pushes ahead with criminalising failure to prevent tax evasion
December 11th, 2015
New offence could become a ‘damp squib’ ignored by foreign companies, warns tax lawyer HMRC is to go ahead with a bid to create a new criminal offence for failure to prevent tax evasion, despite warnings of significant challenges ...
BCSC panel issues lifetime ban against self-employed “Forex” trader
December 9th, 2015
A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has fined and permanently banned Hong Liang Zhong from the province’s capital markets for fraud, unregistered trading and offering clients false guarantees to reimburse them for any losses. In May 2015, the panel found ...
CFTC fines individual and Forex Trading Advisors Firms
December 8th, 2015
CFTC Finds that Respondents Made False Statements to the CFTC, Committed Foreign Currency Solicitation Fraud, and Failed to Register with the CFTC The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Garen ...
Fifty individual shareholders sue Toshiba seeking $2.45 million in damages
December 7th, 2015
Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo on Monday, seeking 301.99 million yen ($2.45 million) in damages after the firm’s stock plunged in the wake of a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal. The lawsuit against ...
Brokers Working for Hayes Would Say One Thing, Do Another
December 4th, 2015
Danny Wilkinson testifies for first time on Libor charges Hayes was `the best trader I’ve ever seen,’ Wilkinson Says A former ICAP Plc broker who once described Tom Hayes’s requests to manipulate Libor as “so illegal, it’s ridiculous,” told ...
SEC: Grant Thornton Ignored Red Flags in Audits
December 3rd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that national audit firm Grant Thornton LLP and two of its partners agreed to settle charges that they ignored red flags and fraud risks while conducting deficient audits of two publicly traded companies that ...
