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FINRA USA Fines Aegis Capital Corp. $950,000
August 5th, 2015
Two Chief Compliance Officers Fined and Suspended Aegis CEO Fined and Suspended for Failure to Report Liens The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Aegis Capital Corp. $950,000 for improperly selling unregistered penny stocks ...
Former Libor ‘Ringmaster’ Hayes Gets 14 Years for Libor Rigging
August 4th, 2015
Former UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc. trader Tom Hayes, the first person to stand trial for manipulating Libor, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to rig the benchmark rate. After a ...
SEC charged Two men and Eight companies with defrauding investors
July 31st, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two men and eight companies with defrauding investors, many of them upstate New York residents, who purchased the companies’ securities and so-called “charitable gift annuities.” According to the SEC’s complaint filed in ...
FINRA Fines Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P. $1.8 Million for OATS and Trade Reporting Failures
July 28th, 2015
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P. $1.8 million for systemic Order Audit Trail System (OATS) reporting violations spanning a period of more than eight years, failure to ...
U.S. Labor Department fiduciary rule to cost brokers $5.8bln -SIFMA
July 21st, 2015
A proposal by the Department of Labor to rein in conflicts by brokers who offer retirement advice may cost U.S. securities firms more than $5.8 billion, making it harder for Americans to build nest eggs, the Securities Industry and ...
IRS Probes Singapore Asset Manager for accepting transfers from undeclared Swiss accounts
July 20th, 2015
First came Switzerland. Now the Internal Revenue Service has a new target: Singapore Criminal investigators at the IRS are probing whether a Singapore asset-management firm accepted transfers from undeclared Swiss accounts closed by U.S. taxpayers, according to lawyers familiar ...
Goldman Sachs Asset Management to acquire leading institutional impact investing firm Imprint Capital
July 14th, 2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (“GSAM”) has issued a press release to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Imprint Capital (“Imprint”), a leading institutional impact investing firm and innovator in developing investment solutions that generate measurable environmental, social, ...
Brazil Regulator Names 30 Traders in Probe of Currency Rigging
July 14th, 2015
Brazil’s antitrust regulator named 30 people it’s investigating as part of a civil probe into anticompetitive practices in the currency market. If found to have violated the law, the individuals each may face penalties of as much as 2 ...
Greek Limbo Sets Up Another Monday to Watch in Markets
July 13th, 2015
Prospects for deal unsure after weekend negotiations Investors were facing another potentially manic Monday after the latest in a series of weekend twists and turns in Greece’s debt crisis. A wave of optimism buoyed stocks in Europe and the U.S. at the ...
Westpac VC invests in Bitcoin player Coinbase
July 8th, 2015
In a deal that will put Westpac Banking Corp in the box seat as cryptocurrencies develop, the bank’s venture capital fund, Reinventure Group, has invested in Coinbase, one of the world’s pre-eminent Bitcoin companies. In the first deal involving ...
