Search Results for: Securities and Exchange Commission
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 ...
Brokers Warned Not to Steer Clients’ Stock Trades Into Slow Lane
December 15th, 2015
Brokers have been put on notice: treat your customers’ orders as well as you treat your own. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulator, recently said firms using the fastest, most expansive price databases for their own stock trading must ...
CFTC fined individual for $1.9 Million on customer funds fraud
December 14th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that the Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order for permanent injunction against Thomas Gillons, who resides in Napa County, ...
BCSC panel issues lifetime ban against self-employed “Forex” trader
December 9th, 2015
A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has fined and permanently banned Hong Liang Zhong from the province’s capital markets for fraud, unregistered trading and offering clients false guarantees to reimburse them for any losses. In May 2015, the panel found ...
BCSC panel issues lifetime ban against B.C. man for fraud
December 3rd, 2015
A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has fined and permanently banned Rodney Jack Wharram from the province’s capital markets for fraud. In February 2015, the panel found that Wharram, West Karma Ltd. and the Falls Capital Corp. committed fraud when ...
SEC: Grant Thornton Ignored Red Flags in Audits
December 3rd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that national audit firm Grant Thornton LLP and two of its partners agreed to settle charges that they ignored red flags and fraud risks while conducting deficient audits of two publicly traded companies that ...
Over 10,000 people were duped by Bitcoin mining startup, feds say
December 2nd, 2015
SEC: Josh Garza and GAW Miners “robbed one investor to pay another.” On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the founder of a now-shuttered Bitcoin mining company, alleging that it committed $19 million worth of fraud in a Ponzi scheme. ...
SEC Charges Bitcoin Mining Companies
December 2nd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Bitcoin mining companies and their founder with conducting a Ponzi scheme that used the lure of quick riches from virtual currency to defraud investors. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in ...
Chinese stocks rally on rumored mortgage tax break
December 2nd, 2015
Chinese markets rallied Wednesday afternoon on speculation of an upcoming incentive to be announced by Beijing to boost the country’s lagging property market. Elsewhere, other Asian equities ended lower on Wednesday as sentiment remained shaky in the region, with ...
CySec announced Imposition of Fines on 4 Cyprus Investment Firms
November 27th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform about its decision for Imposition of Administartive Fines on four Cyprus Investment Firms. According to CySec, the CIFs Reliantco Investments Ltd, WGM Services Ltd , Pegase Capital ...
