Search Results for: U.S Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awards more than $1.8 Million to whistleblower
September 3rd, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an award of more than $1.8 million to a whistleblower whose information and assistance were critically important to the success of an enforcement action involving misconduct committed overseas. After alerting the agency ...
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to Host Public Fintech Forum
September 28th, 2016
In an announcement today, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will host a public forum to discuss Fintech innovation at its Washington D.C. headquarters in November. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal body which serves as ...
SEC charges Ripple and two executives
December 30th, 2020
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives, who are also significant security holders, alleging that they raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, ongoing digital ...
J.P. Morgan Securities admits to manipulative trading in U.S. Treasuries
September 30th, 2020
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for fraudulently engaging in manipulative trading of U.S. Treasury securities. J.P. Morgan Securities admitted the findings in the SEC’s ...
Individuals and companies charged in $165 million global Binary Options fraud scheme
September 4th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on 02 September, 2020 the filing of a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas charging six individuals and four companies with operating a fraudulent ...
Individual and Company ordered to pay $755,000 for Binary Options fraud
June 18th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama issued an order granting a permanent injunction against Aaron B. Butler, a former resident of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, ...
Charges in international Binary Options and Digital Asset fraud scheme
May 25th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement early in May to inform about the filing of a multi-million dollar fraud action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, charging three individuals and three companies with ...
U.S. Financial Regulator wins Forex fraud trial; Defendants to pay more than $22.6 million
March 5th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that following a bench trial the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama entered a final judgment against defendants Husam Tayeh of Illinois and his companies, Dinar Corp., Inc. and ...
Alert! Individuals and entities charged with fraud in Binary Options trading scheme
September 3rd, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois charging five entities and four individuals with fraud relating to a global retail binary options enterprise ...
Trading Platform and its CEO fined for illegal Bitcoin related transactions
March 14th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that a federal court entered a Consent Order (Order) resolving a CFTC action against 1pool Ltd., located in the Marshall Islands, and its chief executive officer and owner, Patrick Brunner, for illegally ...
