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Sullivan & Cromwell to open Brussels office with antitrust hire
May 22nd, 2017
Sullivan & Cromwell, the US corporate law firm, has poached a senior European competition lawyer to open its first new office in nearly two decades based in Brussels. Michael Rosenthal is joining S & C as partner to work ...
SEC Charges Fake Filer With Manipulating Fitbit Stock
May 22nd, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against a Virginia-based mechanical engineer accused of scheming to manipulate the price of Fitbit stock by making a phony regulatory filing. According to the SEC’s complaint, Robert W. Murray purchased ...
SEC charges former head traders at Nomura with fraud
May 16th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of former head traders who ran the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) desk at Nomura Securities International Inc. with deliberately lying to customers in order to inflate the profits of the ...
International law firm former partner Charged in $1 Million insider trading scheme
May 12th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former partner at an international law firm and his neighbor with making more than $1 million in illicit profits by insider trading around corporate announcements. The SEC alleges that Walter C. ...
BCSC warns about the online binary options trading TorOption
May 12th, 2017
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a warning to inform public and investors about TorOption, which is owned and operated by Smart Choice Zone LP (together, the Parties). TorOption claims to be based in Glasgow, Scotland, and provides an ...
Barclays to pay $97 Million for overcharging clients
May 11th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an enforcement action requiring Barclays Capital to refund advisory fees or mutual fund sales charges to clients who were overcharged. In a settlement of more than $97 million, Barclays agreed to settle ...
SFC consults on proposals to reduce hacking risks in internet trading
May 9th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today launched a two-month consultation on proposals to reduce and mitigate hacking risks associated with internet trading (Note 1). The proposals incorporate new guidelines (Note 2) which set out baseline cybersecurity requirements for ...
CySec announced initiation of the compensation payment process by the I.C.F in CommexFX case
May 4th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform regarding the Initiation of the compensation payment process by the Investor Compensation Fund for Clients of IFs (I.C.F) in relation to the CommexFX Ltd. According the announcement, ...
Whistleblower award of more than half-million dollars for company insider
May 3rd, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a company insider has earned a whistleblower award of more than $500,000 for reporting information that prompted an SEC investigation into well-hidden misconduct that resulted in an SEC enforcement action. “This ...
DTCC repo clearing services gain regulatory approval
May 3rd, 2017
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved rule changes allowing its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary ...
