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SEC fines 13 firms over sale of Puerto Rico junk bonds
November 4th, 2014
Units of 13 major Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan and UBS, improperly sold bonds from Puerto Rico’s landmark March junk deal to retail investors who may not have understood the debt’s riskiness, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said ...
CySec imposes administrative fine of €100.000
November 3rd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an announcement to inform investors that, in its meeting held on October 20, 2014, decided to impose a total administrative fine of € 100.000 to Hellenic Bank Public Company Limited ...
Argentina suspends P&G over tax claims
November 3rd, 2014
Argentina has banned the consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) from doing business in the country, accusing the firm of tax fraud. A statement on the presidential website, published on Sunday, said P&G had inflated the price of ...
Former head of US regulator advising top Bitcoin companies
October 29th, 2014
A former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been appointed to the advisory board of the two major Bitcoin companies. Arthur Levitt, who served as chair of the SEC between 1993 and 2001, will advise Bitpay ...
SEC investigates CMS employees in insider-trading case
October 29th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether employees at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) leaked information to traders, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the investigation. Authorities have interviewed nearly a ...
SEC probing private equity performance figures
October 29th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people ...
CySec: acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
October 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “Skanestas Investments Ltd” has successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally under the supervision ...
SEC Sanctions Florida-Based Auditor for Circumventing Rules
October 27th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned a Florida-based auditor for violating federal laws and regulations requiring lead audit partners to periodically rotate off their audit engagements with a publicly traded company in order to preserve the integrity of the ...
SEC: Rengan Rajaratnam Settles Insider Trading Charges
October 24th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that former hedge fund manager Rajarengan “Rengan” Rajaratnam has agreed to pay more than $840,000 and accept securities industry bars in order to settle the agency’s insider trading case against him. ...
Skill set needed to make Cyprus a Strong Fund Jurisdiction
October 23rd, 2014
Despite the current financial crisis and recession that we are experiencing, one industry that stands out, is resilient, and is growing is the Financial Services. Despite the reputational damage that we suffered following the events of March 2013, many ...
