Search Results for: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Brokerage Firm Charged With Failing to Comply With Anti-Money Laundering Laws
June 6th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an announcement to inform that the Commission charges a Salt Lake City-based brokerage firm with securities law violations related to its alleged practice of clearing transactions for microcap stocks that were used ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Portfolio Manager Charged With Diverting Nearly $2 Million to Personal Account
April 25th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Massachusetts-based portfolio manager accused of diverting at least $1.95 million to his personal brokerage account from a fund over which he had trading authority. The SEC’s complaint alleges ...
Investment Bank VP charged With insider trading
April 25th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a vice president in the risk management department of a New York-based investment bank with insider trading on confidential information he learned in advance of a private equity firm’s acquisition of a ...
Court orders firms to disgorge ill-gotten funds in Binary Options fraud
April 7th, 2017
Federal Court Orders Relief Defendants Westward International Ltd. and Coucarin Holdings Ltd. to Disgorge Ill-Gotten Funds Totaling More than $1.77 Million in CFTC Binary Options Fraud Action The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge James ...
Overseas Traders Paying Back All Profits Plus Penalties in Insider Trading Case
March 27th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that three Peruvian traders have agreed to settle a pending case alleging that they traded on nonpublic information prior to the merger of two mining companies. The SEC filed its complaint in ...
100 investors lost more than $15 million in stock fraud
March 27th, 2017
The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has issued an announcement to inform that investment adviser and broker found guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of securities fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and aggravated identity ...
What FBI do to combat Binary Options fraud
March 16th, 2017
Stock options. It’s a pretty common investment term meaning, in general, that one party sells or offers to another party the opportunity to invest by buying a particular stock at an agreed upon price within a certain period of ...