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New York Federal Court Orders New York Financial Advisor Wayne P. Weddington III and His Companies to Pay More than $1 Million
August 6th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a Consent Order of permanent injunction against Defendants Wayne P. Weddington III of New York, New ...
SEC Obtains Asset Freeze Against China-Based Trader for Suspicious Activity Last Week
June 24th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a trader in China who profited by more than $1 million after trading in a U.S. brokerage account in advance of last week’s ...
Swiss Trader to Pay $2.8 Million to Settle Insider Trading Charges
June 16th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that a Swiss trader has agreed to pay more than $2.8 million to settle charges that he traded on nonpublic information ahead of a Florida-based biometrics company’s acquisition by Apple Inc. A SEC investigation ...
UK trader charged for manipulation contributing to 2010 flash crash
April 22nd, 2015
A high-frequency futures trader has been charged with illegally manipulating the stock market, contributing to the May 2010 “flash crash,” according to documents unsealed Tuesday. The Justice Department charged the United Kingdom’s Navinder Singh Sarao with wire fraud, 10 ...
Former ConvergEx trader admits books and records falsification
April 7th, 2015
Former Convergex Global Markets trader, Michael Craig Marshall, pleads guilty for scheme to falsify books and records A former trader at ConvergEx Global Markets has pleaded guilty in federal court in New Jersey for his role in a scheme ...
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 ...
SEC Charges Current and Former E*TRADE Subsidiaries With Improperly Selling Penny Stocks
October 10th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced an enforcement action against current and former brokerage subsidiaries of E*TRADE Financial Corporation that failed in their gatekeeper roles and improperly engaged in unregistered sales of microcap stocks on behalf of their customers. ...
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 ...
Insider traders in U.S. face longer prison terms
September 2nd, 2014
U.S. judges are imposing increasingly long prison terms for insider trading, a Reuters analysis shows. The rise is at least partly driven by the bigger profits being earned through the illegal schemes, defense lawyers said. The trend is likely ...
EUR/USD Below 1.3430 as traders earn from bullish turn
July 28th, 2014
The dollar was about 0.1 percent from the strongest level in eight months against the euro as investors raised bets it would climb versus the single currency to the most since November 2012. The U.S. currency maintained its biggest ...
