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Citigroup Global Markets Australia pays $50,000 in infringement notice penalty
June 9th, 2017
Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Ltd (‘Citigroup’) has paid a penalty of $50,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (‘MDP’). The MDP had reasonable grounds to believe that Citigroup had contravened ...
London Stock Exchange to buy Citi’s Yield Book bonds analysis business for $685 million
May 30th, 2017
London Stock Exchange (LSE)(LSE.L) has agreed to buy The Yield Book, Citigroup’s (C.N) fixed-income analytics service and also its related indexing business, for $685 million in cash, the companies said on Tuesday. LSE, which had said it would be ...
CFTC charges individual with fraudulently soliciting commodity futures customers
May 3rd, 2017
CFTC Charges Pennsylvania Resident William H. Powderly IV with Fraudulently Soliciting Commodity Futures Customers and Distributing False Account Statements The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, ...
EU citizens: Can you afford to pay your bills? millions of people in enforced inability
April 24th, 2017
Share of severely materially deprived people down to 7.8% in the EU. Around 39 million people in this situation in the EU, according to early estimates for 2016. In 2016, 7.8% of the population or around 39 million people ...
Citibank refunds $5 million in credit card international transaction fees
March 31st, 2017
Citigroup Pty Limited (Citibank) has refunded approximately $5 million to around 230,000 customers, for failing to properly disclose that credit card international transaction fees apply to Australian dollar transactions where the merchant uses an entity based overseas to process ...
Venezuelan citizens are adopting alternatives like the bitcoin to survive
March 28th, 2017
With its economy in shambles and its national currency in steep decline, Venezuelan citizens are adopting alternatives to survive—chief among them the crypto-currency Bitcoin. But that’s not the only option that’s popping up. In the wake of the financial collapse, ...
UK Legal chiefs say the Government should give EU citizens unrestricted access to UK jobs – Brexit
March 17th, 2017
Legal chiefs say the Government should give EU citizens unrestricted access to UK jobs in post-Brexit Britain and claim that British workers do not lose out to EU migrant labour. But they agree that the UK Government, not the ...
Citibank N.A. settles for being part of forex trading cartel
February 21st, 2017
Today, the Competition Commission has filed with the Competition Tribunal a settlement agreement reached with Citibank N.A. for being part of the forex trading cartel. The Commission found that from at least 2007, Citibank N.A. and its competitors had ...
Citigroup Paying $18 Million for Overbilling Clients
January 27th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to pay $18.3 million to settle charges that it overbilled investment advisory clients and misplaced client contracts. The SEC’s order finds that at least 60,000 advisory ...
Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Charged With Misleading Investors About Forex Trading Program
January 25th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Citigroup Global Markets have agreed to pay more than $2.96 million apiece to settle charges that they made false and misleading statements about a foreign exchange ...
