Search Results for: Securities and Exchange Commission
CySEC announced that Kit Finance Brokers Ltd is authorised as a Cyprus Investment Firm
October 2nd, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued an announcement to inform that a new company has been approved by the Commission as Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF). According the announcement, the firm ...
U.S. financial regulator awarded almost $4 Million to an overseas whistleblower
September 26th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has awarded nearly $4 million to an overseas whistleblower whose tip led it to open an investigation and whose extensive assistance helped it bring a successful enforcement action. “Whistleblowers, whether they ...
SEC shuts down a $345 million Ponzi-like scheme
September 24th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has obtained a court order halting an ongoing Ponzi-like scheme that raised more than $345 million from over 230 investors across the U.S. The SEC also obtained an emergency asset freeze and ...
CySEC withdraw the license of two Cyprus Investment Firms
September 17th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the independent public supervisory Authority responsible to exercise effective supervision to ensure investor protection and the healthy development of the securities market in Cyprus, has issued two announcements to inform the withdrawal ...
Broker-Dealer to pay $2.75 million penalty
September 14th, 2018
The U.S. financial regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Convergex Execution Solutions LLC, now known as Cowen Execution Services LLC, will pay $2.75 million to settle charges that the broker-dealer firm provided the SEC with incomplete and ...
Cryptocurrency ether plunges again, decoupling from bitcoin
September 13th, 2018
Ether, one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies during the boom last year, is taking another nose dive on Wednesday. The world’s second largest cryptocurrency fell 8 percent to a low of $170.34, bringing its drop since the high in January ...
Bitcoin crash: This man lost his savings when cryptocurrencies plunged
September 12th, 2018
An estimated $400 billion has been wiped off the value of major cryptocurrencies since January. Sean Russell’s life savings were among them. Russell rarely played the stock market and had little investing experience when he put around $120,000 into ...
Two brokers charged with defrauding customers
September 11th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two brokers for recommending excessive levels of trading that were costly for retail customers but lucrative for the brokers. In separate complaints filed in federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the SEC ...
Dutch bank ING fined 775 million euros in money laundering case
September 7th, 2018
Dutch bank ING has paid 775 million euros ($897 million) to settle a huge money laundering case in the Netherlands, prosecutors said Tuesday. The country’s financial prosecution service said in a statement that ING for years failed to adequately ...
Two men charged with fraud in fake trading accounts scheme
September 7th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Michigan men with fraud for their roles in a fake accounts scheme perpetrated by a phony day-trading firm, Nonko Trading. The SEC alleges that Jeffrey Goldman of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and ...
