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Credit Suisse To Pay Millions For Unlawful Conduct In Its Forex Trading Business
November 15th, 2017
Credit Suisse Traders Engaged in Efforts to Manipulate Prices, Profited at the Expense of Clients, and Improperly Shared Customer Information Credit Suisse Executives Encouraged Traders to Engage in Front Running, Which Deceived and Disadvantaged Customers The Bank Will Also ...
CFTC Orders Cargill to Pay a $10 Million Civil Monetary Penalty
November 7th, 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing and simultaneous settlement of charges against Cargill, Inc. (Cargill), of Minnesota, for providing mid-market marks (marks) that concealed from counterparties and its swap data repository (SDR) its full mark-up on certain ...
Financial advice firm to pay $1 million penalty
October 30th, 2017
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an announcement to inform that: The Federal Court has imposed a civil penalty of $1 million against Melbourne-based financial advice firm NSG Services Pty Ltd (currently named Golden Financial Group ...
EU Council Approves VAT Derogation For Four States
October 20th, 2017
In Volume 60 of the Official Journal of the European Union (L 265), published October 14, the European Council approved four proposals for council implementing decisions in respect of derogation sought by member states from the EU VAT Directive. ...
CySec announced fines for executive directors
October 19th, 2017
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued today an announcement to inform the public that, at its meeting held on 6 February 2017, it reached the decision that Mr. Michel Pierre Salomon Teman, Mr. ...
CFTC announces Clearinghouse liquidity stress test results
October 18th, 2017
Staff of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report detailing the results of an evaluation of settlement liquidity at clearinghouses. The purpose of the analysis was to assess the impact of a hypothetical extreme but plausible market ...
Feds Miss out on $600 Million Payday in Silk Road Bitcoin Auction
October 9th, 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice recently claimed the proceeds from the sale of 144,336 bitcoins found in Ross Ulbricht’s laptop, gained from Silk Road’s seizure in 2013. Claiming the proceeds took a couple of years, and netted the government little over ...
Deloitte cyber-attack: Is your firm safe?
September 27th, 2017
Cybersecurity is a pervasive issue in the digital age, and no organisation is completely risk-free. So how did this happen to Deloitte, and how can firms protect their data and prevent similar cyber-attacks? Big Four firm Deloitte suffered a ...
Stock Market Analyst charged with insider trading
September 27th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a stock market analyst with insider trading prior to the publication of research reports and articles he authored with the false disclaimer that he wasn’t trading in the companies being covered. He agreed ...
Citibank and Citigroup Global Markets Limited to pay hundreds of thousands dollars penalty
September 26th, 2017
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Citibank, N.A. (CBNA) and Citigroup Global Markets Limited (CGML) (collectively, Citi), for failing to report Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) information for swap transactions properly ...
