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Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney to Leave SEC
December 9th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney will leave the agency by the end of the year. During his nearly four years as head of the agency’s largest division, Mr. Ceresney implemented approaches ...
FINRA advice to read your brokerage account statement
October 14th, 2016
Recently, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) imposed a fine of $850,000 on a firm with thousands of employees for failing to detect for two years that a single broker had taken more than $370,000 from five customer brokerage ...
Broker sentenced for Grand Central insider-trading scheme
October 3rd, 2016
For many people, the clock that sits atop the information booth in the middle of Grand Central Terminal can serve as a vivid memory of a visit to New York City. Ex-Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer & Co. broker-dealer Vladimir ...
Watch out for the Facebook Forex scam
September 1st, 2016
Facebook users have been warned to look out for scammers posing as foreign exchange traders promising lucrative returns. These ‘brokers’ are taking advantage of the rising popularity of currency exchange online trading schemes to lure victims in with fake success ...
OpenDoor Becomes First Women-Owned Bond Trading Platform
July 14th, 2016
Following the closing of a $10 million investment round, OpenDoor Trading, LLC (“OpenDoor”) has become the first U.S. bond trading platform both majority-owned and majority-controlled by women. The funds will be used to support technology and business development of an innovative ‘all-to-all’ ...
Hedge Fund Managers and Former Government Official Charged in $32 Million Insider Trading Scheme
June 16th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against two hedge fund managers and their source, a former government official accused of deceptively obtaining confidential information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A third hedge ...
The pensions mess: can gold help?
June 14th, 2016
The British have recently seen two unpleasant examples of the cost of pension fund deficits. A deficit at British Steel, estimated to be about £485m, was followed by a deficit at British Home Stores of £571m. In both cases, ...
Two Convicted in the biggest Insider Trading Conspiracy in Britain
May 10th, 2016
A former investment banker and a businessman were convicted of insider trading on Monday in what the British authorities have described as the largest crackdown on improper trading in Britain. After a three-month trial in Southwark Crown Court in ...
Fear Spreads as China’s Finance Firms Face Arrests
November 18th, 2015
“People are worried” as hedge funds, traders, CSRC targeted At least 16 connected to finance world caught up in crackdown The high-drama highway arrest of a prominent hedge fund manager. Seizures of computers and phones at Chinese mutual funds. The investigations ...
CFTC Releases Annual Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2015
November 9th, 2015
Agency Filed 69 Enforcement Cases and Achieved a Record $3.14 Billion in Civil Monetary Penalties Ordered The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today released the agency’s enforcement results for fiscal year (FY) 2015, which included a record $3.144 ...