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ESMA and Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) sign MoU on trade repository data
December 4th, 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on access to data held in European trade repositories . The MoU is effective as of 26 November 2014. The ...
Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road Offered in Second Auction
December 4th, 2014
The U.S. government will auction 50,000 bitcoins as it disposes the virtual currency seized after closing down the illicit Silk Road marketplace last year. Today’s tender is the second sale after the U.S. Marshals Service sold almost 30,000 bitcoins in June, ...
SEC Charges California Resident With Fraudulent Sales of Stock
December 3rd, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the owner of several now-defunct investment entities with fraudulently selling shares of stock that he claimed to own when he had actually purchased them for others a few years before. The SEC ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
November 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP): Egard Management Ltd Delta Quest (Nominees) Limited TMF ...
CySec Announces 22 authorisations
November 27th, 2014
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, announces to grant to the following companies a Cyprus Investment Firm authorisation. Granting authorisation to the below companies was decided during its meetings between May – October 2014. 1. VPR SAFE ...
Funding secured for Tesco shareholder class action
November 26th, 2014
Australian litigation funder Bentham has made its biggest entry yet in the European market by agreeing to fund a class action against supermarket giant Tesco. The European subsidiary will fund legal action on behalf of shareholders who are claiming ...
SEC Charges HSBC’s Swiss Private Banking Unit With Providing Unregistered Services to U.S. Clients
November 26th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged HSBC’s Swiss-based private banking arm with violating federal securities laws by failing to register with the SEC before providing cross-border brokerage and investment advisory services to U.S. clients. HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) ...
CySec: acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
November 24th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “MAXIFLEX GLOBAL INVESTMENTS CORP LTD.” has successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally ...
SEC Charges Penny Stock Company Executives in New Jersey With Issuing False Press Releases to Inflate Stock Price
November 24th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged father-and-son executives at a New Jersey-based penny stock company for issuing false and misleading press releases while secretly selling thousands of their own stock shares into the market. They agreed to pay ...
CySec announces the suspension of the authorisation of CIF ‘WGM Services Ltd’
November 20th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm ‘WGM Services Ltd’, number 203/13, is suspended, pursuant to section 26(2) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets ...