SEC Announces Fraud Charges Against Investment Adviser Accused of Concealing Poor Performance of Fund Assets From Investors
March 31st, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against an investment adviser and her New York-based firms accused of hiding the poor performance of loan assets in three collateralized loan obligation (CLO) funds they manage. The SEC’s Enforcement ...
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 ...
CySEC warns for individuals impersonating CySEC representatives
May 19th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s (CySEC) has issued an announcement to inform that as a result of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s (CySEC) supervision programme, there is evidence of fraudulent representation of CySEC officers engaging with investment ...
The seven simple rules on how to avoid Forex scams
January 30th, 2017
Forex scams are common despite the fact that regulatory authorities around the world are actively trying to set regulations and rules to protect investors and public from fraudsters. Forex market is still unregulated to a large extent and fraudsters ...
Israeli Man Charged With Operating FOREX Ponzi Scheme
August 4th, 2016
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that FADI EWIESS, a/k/a “Fadi ...
SEC announced: Mortgage Company and Executives Settle Fraud Charges
June 1st, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a California-based mortgage company and six senior executives agreed to pay $12.7 million to settle charges that they orchestrated a scheme to defraud investors in the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities ...
SEC Charges Bitcoin Mining Companies
December 2nd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Bitcoin mining companies and their founder with conducting a Ponzi scheme that used the lure of quick riches from virtual currency to defraud investors. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in ...
Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
SEC to Impose Penalties More Often in Muni Fraud Cases
November 11th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to impose penalties more frequently in the $3.7 trillion municipal securities market. “An enforcement model with no penalties was not sustainable,” Andrew Ceresney, the SEC’s director of enforcement, said during a panel ...
Enforcement actions against two affiliate marketers for Binary options fraud
October 8th, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today that it filed a pair of enforcement actions against two affiliate marketers, David Sechovich and Peter Szatmari for creating and disseminating millions of fraudulent solicitations to open and fund retail binary options ...
