Search Results for: fraud
Bitcoin Price Goes Beyond $400: How High Will it Go?
November 6th, 2015
The price of bitcoin has shot up again! The steady increase of everyone’s favorite digital currency doesn’t appear to be a fluke. Bitcoin has been on the move practically every week over the last month. Now, in just a matter ...
Ex-JPMorgan Broker Admits Stealing $22 Million for Gambling
November 6th, 2015
Michael Oppenheim pleads guilty in Manhattan federal court Ex-broker also used investor money to pay bills, trade stocks A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. broker admitted he stole more than $22 million from customer accounts and used the money to gamble ...
The end-point in financial credit
November 6th, 2015
Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed in favour of governments, financial markets, and big business. It ...
SEC Identifies More Alleged Corrupt Brokers in Stock Manipulation Case
November 5th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it has identified three additional individuals to charge in a penny stock manipulation case the agency filed last year against alleged corrupt brokers and others. The SEC filed a request in federal court ...
Commodities Trader Found Guilty in ‘Spoofing’ Case
November 4th, 2015
Michael Coscia faces up to 25 years in prison with sentencing scheduled for March A Chicago jury found a New Jersey-based commodities trader guilty of 12 counts of fraud and manipulating the futures market on Tuesday in a major ...
Venture Fund Sues PwC for Alleged Audit Deficiencies
November 4th, 2015
Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund sued Burrill & Co.’s founder in July A venture fund launched by Burrill & Co. is suing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for allegedly failing to flag unauthorized transfers that it claims led to millions in investor ...
BaFin and the SEC: An international comparison of supervisory practice
November 3rd, 2015
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) is often compared to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the media and by the public. The SEC is frequently perceived as the more powerful authority, in ...
SEC Bars Brokers Who Played Favorites to Double Their Commissions
November 2nd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today barred two brokers at a now-defunct Connecticut brokerage for giving customer order information to certain favored customers, helping those customers get better prices while generating extra commissions for their firm. The SEC also ...
Scariest Events from the Financial World: 2000 to Present
October 30th, 2015
It’s no secret that the global financial markets offers a ton of opportunity, but can be equally as scary. There are so many factors at play in the free flow of trillions of dollars each day that it’s ...
PwC has acquired the assets of Kusiri
October 29th, 2015
PwC’s deals and forensics practice has acquired the assets of Kusiri, a technology start-up which provides a forensic data search platform used to discover fraud and for compliance screening. Six people from Kusiri joined PwC’s forensics team on Monday ...
