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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 ...
Money Is Becoming Unmanageable: Hedge Funds Post Losses, Face Outflows
December 3rd, 2015
Some of the money managers who made names (and billions of dollars) for themselves in the past decade are suddenly failing: ” Hedge Funds Brace for Redemptions (Bloomberg) – When BlueCrest Capital Management told investors Tuesday ...
VW Scandal: Top law firms competing for lead assignment in expected multibillion-dollar case
December 3rd, 2015
Top law firms competing for lead assignment in expected multibillion-dollar case Lawyers from across the country will descend Thursday on a courthouse in New Orleans to jockey for a potentially lucrative assignment: a role in the massive consumer-fraud litigation facing Volkswagen AG over ...
Credit Suisse plans trading floor for Dublin
November 16th, 2015
Swiss bank wants to move 40 traders and 60 support staff to Ireland as part of a cost-cutting drive Credit Suisse is on course to become the first international bank to set up a major trading floor in Dublin. The ...
JPMorgan’s 2014 Hack Tied to Largest Cyber Breach Ever
November 11th, 2015
Online gambling, bitcoin scam, money laundering among charges Hackers took data on 100 million customers, U.S. alleges The U.S. described a vast, multi-year criminal enterprise centering on hacks of at least nine big financial and publishing firms and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
London Wants to Become the Center of Chinese Currency Trading
October 20th, 2015
PBOC official said to view London as likely renminbi hub Euronext study expects $5 trillion of Chinese investment Three years ago, Chinese officials said U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron had “seriously damaged” relations by meeting with the Dalai Lama, the ...
The Common Reporting Standard: Automatic Information Exchange Goes Global
October 16th, 2015
Automatic exchange of information for tax law enforcement purposes started first in Europe with the EU Savings Tax Directive, went international with the US Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act, and, from 2017, will go global with the recently-agreed Common ...
The First “football stock exchange” is launched where traders can buy and sell shares in professional footballers
October 8th, 2015
Fans and football – loving investors now have the chance to trade in shares in professional footballers with real money. Jersey based gambling operator BetIndex Ltd, a UK licensed gambling platform, provides customers with an exciting alternative to the ...