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U.S. Charges Belize Agents Linked to Cynk’s Stock Surge
September 10th, 2014
Two men working out of the same Belize building as the penny-stock company Cynk Technology Corp. (CYNK), which surged to a market value of more than $6 billion for an hour in July, were among six people accused by ...
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 ...
Brokers Battle Deutsche Bank Over Selling In-House Products
September 9th, 2014
Since the market collapse of 2008, scrutiny has intensified on the way large banks and securities firms treat their brokerage customers, particularly when it comes to steering them into the firms’ own products. One possibility raised in the 2010 ...
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 ...
Alibaba announces share sale details
September 8th, 2014
China’s biggest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding says it expects to price its initial public offering (IPO) at between $60 and $66 per a share. It has filed to sell up to $24.3bn (£15bn) stock, which would make it ...
CySec warns of malicious sms
September 5th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a warning announcement on misleading sms phone message. More precisely, the Chairwoman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, Mrs. Demetra Kalogerou, submitted a formal complaint to the Police earlier today ...
CySec: Renouncement of CIF licence
September 4th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) announced that, on 22nd August 2014, the CIF “Jiffix Markets Ltd“, which provided investment services via the domain www.jfx.com, renounced its authorization pursuant to section 24(1)(b) of the Investment Services and Activities and ...
U.S. SEC charges Houston adviser with not disclosing fund payments
September 3rd, 2014
A Houston-based investment advisory firm steered clients to certain mutual funds without disclosing that it was receiving payments from the broker who offered those funds, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a civil fraud complaint on Tuesday. ...
SEC gives $300,000 Whistleblower Award to Internal Auditor
September 1st, 2014
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission is rewarding a corporate whistleblower whose actual job it is to blow the whistle on a company’s internal missteps. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it would provide a ...
SEC Shelves Plan for Private Asset-Backed Bond Disclosure
August 28th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, while expanding disclosure requirements for one set of asset-backed securities, has stepped back from a plan to shed more light on a major part of the market. The five SEC commissioners unanimously approved ...