Search Results for: Securities and Futures Commission
Trading Platform and its CEO fined for illegal Bitcoin related transactions
March 14th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that a federal court entered a Consent Order (Order) resolving a CFTC action against 1pool Ltd., located in the Marshall Islands, and its chief executive officer and owner, Patrick Brunner, for illegally ...
Beware of unauthorised companies and websites offering investment services
November 29th, 2018
Financial Regulators around the world issued warnings for companies and websites that are offering investment, financial and insurance services without the required authorisation. In accordance the warnings issued, the supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – ...
Company and individual charged for $170 Million Ponzi Scheme
November 19th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Utah Department of Commerce, Division of Securities, through its Attorney General, jointly filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, against Defendants ...
Former virtual currency trader fined over a million for Bitcoin and Litecoin fraud
November 12th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Joseph Kim (Kim), of Phoenix, Arizona, requiring Kim to pay more than $1.1 million for a fraudulent Bitcoin and Litecoin scheme. In the order, Kim ...
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 ...
U.S. and Australian financial regulators sign FinTech Cooperation Arrangement
October 8th, 2018
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) signed an arrangement to cooperate and support innovation through each other’s financial technology (FinTech) initiatives – CFTC’s LabCFTC and ASIC’s Innovation Hub. “The signing ...
Bitcoin-funded securities dealer and CEO charged for law violations
September 28th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against an international securities dealer and its Austria-based CEO for allegedly violating the federal securities laws in connection with security-based swaps funded with bitcoins. According to the SEC’s complaint, 1pool Ltd. a/k/a ...
Individuals and entities charged in global retail binary options fraud
September 28th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it filed two complaints in federal district courts in Florida against four individuals and three entities and issued seven administrative Orders filing and simultaneously settling charges against seven individuals and two ...
Beware of unauthorised investment and financial services providers
July 31st, 2018
Financial Regulators around the world issued warnings to inform investors and public for companies and websites that are offering investment, financial and insurance services without the required authorisation. The latest warnings are coming from the the supervisory authorities of ...
Beware of unauthorized companies offering investment and financial services
June 12th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Italy (National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange – Consob), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Luxembourg (Commission ...
