Search Results for: securities fraud
Barclays Bank sued for mortgage securities fraud
December 24th, 2016
The United States Department of Justice today filed a civil complaint in the Eastern District of New York against Barclays Bank PLC and several of its United States affiliates (together, Barclays), alleging that Barclays engaged in a fraudulent scheme ...
Former R.B.S. Bond Trader Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud
December 22nd, 2015
A former top trader at the Royal Bank of Scotland pleaded guilty in federal court in Connecticut on Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud as part of the government’s investigation into Wall Street bond sales ...
RBS Trader Admits Defrauding Customers in Multimillion Dollar Securities Fraud Scheme
March 12th, 2015
U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly of the District of Connecticut, Special Inspector General Christy Romero for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) and Special Agent in Charge Patricia M. Ferrick of the FBI’s New Haven Division announced that Matthew ...
US city files suit against Brazil’s Petrobras for securities fraud
December 30th, 2014
The City of Providence, Rhode Island filed a class action suit against Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges Petrobras engaged in a fraudulent ...
Alts fund manager Daniel Thibeault arrested in securities fraud
December 17th, 2014
The FBI accused GL Capital Partners CEO of creating fictitious loans to divert $12.6 million in assets to business accounts A prominent alternative fund manager in Waltham, Mass., was arrested on securities fraud charges last week after the FBI ...
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission: Beware of fraudulent emails
February 1st, 2019
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued an announcement to inform the public that emails are being sent by unidentified sources, illegally using the logo or the name of CySEC to seek payment of so-called outstanding sums ...
Former managing director of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. charged for fraud
November 12th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it filed and settled charges against Jacob Bourne, a former managing director of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., for fraudulently mismarking swap valuations to conceal significant trading losses. The CFTC Order ...
B.C. Securities Commission alleges Alberta man defrauded two investors
January 20th, 2015
The Executive Director of the British Columbia Securities Commission has issued a notice of hearing alleging that an Alberta man and a numbered company that he controls defrauded two investors. The notice alleges that Robert James Maddigan, an engineer ...
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 ...
