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SEC Charges Investor Relations Firm Executive
August 27th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a director of market intelligence at a Manhattan-based investor relations firm with insider trading ahead of impending news announcements by more than a dozen clients. The charges were filed against Michael ...
SEC Announces Pilot Plan to Assess Stock Market Tick Size Impact for Smaller Companies
August 27th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that the national securities exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) filed a proposal to establish a national market system plan to implement a targeted 12-month pilot program that will ...
U.S Regulators may change rules for upstart trading
July 30th, 2014
U.S regulators may relax rules that require the fastest possible execution of securities trades, potentially helping upstart trading venue IEX Group’s plans to become a full-fledged stock exchange. IEX, described in author Michael Lewis’ book “Flash Boys: A Wall ...
UBS, Deutsche Bank questioned by U.S. regulators on trading operations
July 29th, 2014
Germany’s Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) and Switzerland’s UBS (UBSN.VX) were investigated by U.S. regulators, who are searching to find whether broker-run stock exchanges gave an unfair advantage to high-frequency traders. The investment banks, which said on Tuesday that they were ...
SEC Charges Investor Relations Executive With Insider Trading While Preparing Clients’ Press Releases
July 22nd, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a partner at a New York-based investor relations firm with insider trading on confidential information he learned about two clients while he helped prepare their press releases. The SEC alleges that Kevin ...
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 ...
SEC charges five traders for short selling violations
July 3rd, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged five traders for committing short selling violations while trading for themselves and Worldwide Capital Inc., a Long Island, N.Y.-based proprietary firm that earlier this year paid the largest-ever monetary sanction for ...
Goldman Sachs fined over dark pool pricing
July 2nd, 2014
Goldman Sachs has been fined $800,000 (£466,000) by a US regulator for “failing” to ensure that trades in its dark pool took place at the best price. The regulator said more than 395,000 trades were executed in the bank’s ...
FINRA Expels Success Trade Securities and Bars CEO Fuad Ahmed for Ponzi Scheme
June 26th, 2014
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has announced that a FINRA hearing panel has expelled Washington, D.C.-based Success Trade Securities, Inc. from membership and barred its CEO and President, Fuad Ahmed, for the fraudulent sale of promissory notes and ...
Dark Pools Take Larger Share of Trades Amid SEC Scrutiny
June 13th, 2014
The rise of off-exchange trading in the U.S. stock market continues unabated even as regulators question the wisdom of allowing the shift to continue. Shares changing hands in private venues such as dark pools accounted for 40.4 percent of ...
