US Legal & Regulation

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obtained a USD200,000 civil penalty and a permanent commodities trading ban against hedge fund manager and commodity pool operator Linuxo »

Alliance Development of Nevada and William Snyder of Washington have been ordered to pay restitution of USD550,000 and civil monetary penalties of USD1.65m and USD1.45m respectively to »

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Bernard L Madoff and his investment firm, Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities, with securities fraud for a multi-billion dollar Pon »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obtained more than USD12m in restitution and civil monetary penalties against nine Florida defendants to settle an anti-fraud lawsuit in »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced the issue of preliminary injunctions by the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the commodity pool o »

More than 98 per cent of senior hedge fund managers believe the new US administration is likely to increase regulation of the hedge fund industry, according to a report by accountancy f »

In the future, investment banking will be more tightly regulated and dominated by risk-averse commercial banks, while new firms that are structured as partnerships but are much smaller wil »

The United States District Court for the District of Nebraska this week entered a consent order of permanent injunction settling the CFTC's charges against Commercial Hedge Services, Inc ( »

The US-based Hedge Fund Association has launched a regional chapter for the north-eastern US, providing organisational and financial resources for member programmes in New York, Connecticu »

A US court has entered a permanent injunction against Cornerstone Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund operator, and its chief executive, the inaptly-named Joseph Profit of Atla »