Search Results for: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
CFTC Issues Order of Registration for Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad
January 23rd, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that is has issued an Order of Registration to Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad (BMD), a Foreign Board of Trade located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Under the Order, BMD is permitted to provide ...
SEC Adopts Rules to Increase Transparency in Security-Based Swap Market
January 15th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted two new sets of rules that will require security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) to register with the SEC and prescribe reporting and public dissemination requirements for security-based swap transaction data. The SEC ...
An alternative oil investment that hinges on infrastructure needs
December 15th, 2014
The sharp decrease in oil prices over the past six months undoubtedly has pained advisers and investors interested in the energy sector. Oil prices dropped sharply last week, reaching five-year lows. For the first time since July 2009, the ...
Texas man charged in first-ever bitcoin Ponzi scheme
November 7th, 2014
In the first federal securities case involving a Ponzi-scheme using the digital currency, a Texas man was charged Thursday in New York with defrauding investors of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin. Trendon Shavers, 32, was arrested at his ...
SEC Announces Insider Trading Charges Against Former Financial Analyst at Pharmaceutical Company
October 15th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced insider trading charges against a Massachusetts man who allegedly tipped his friend with nonpublic information about potential acquisition targets of the pharmaceutical company where he worked. The SEC alleges that Zachary Zwerko was ...
SEC Members Urge Including Brokers in Trading Safeguards
October 6th, 2014
U.S. rules meant to guard against breakdowns in automated trading systems should be expanded to include brokerages that match orders away from regulated stock exchanges, according to two Securities and Exchange Commission members. Luis A. Aguilar and Kara M. ...
SEC probing Goldman Sachs internship
September 19th, 2014
U.S. regulators are investigating a Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) internship for the brother of a former official at Libya’s sovereign wealth fund and perks allegedly offered by the bank to the fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
Ex-SAC Capital trader gets 9-year sentence
September 9th, 2014
Former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was sentenced to a nine-year prison term Monday for his role in what federal prosecutors called the most profitable insider-trading scheme in U.S. history. Martoma, a former financial lieutenant to billionaire hedge ...
SEC Charges Investor Relations Firm Executive
August 27th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a director of market intelligence at a Manhattan-based investor relations firm with insider trading ahead of impending news announcements by more than a dozen clients. The charges were filed against Michael ...
