The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Pennsylvania investment adviser with operating an investment advisory fraud involving over USD100 million in investments. The SEC also obtained an emergency asset freeze. The SEC’s complaint alleges that Brenda Smith, and her fund
By Martin Lovick (pictured), Senior Principal Consultant, ACA Compliance Group – Sexual harassment and other forms of “non-financial misconduct” are now on equal footing with types of financial misconduct, such as market abuse, for the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged New York-based broker-dealer AOC Securities, and its former chief executive officer, Ronaldo Gonzalez, with failing to supervise an AOC broker who provided inflated price quotes for certain securities to a significant customer of
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has made an award of approximately USD2 million to two model whistleblowers who provided the agency with significant information that prompted the CFTC to open an investigation. The CFTC found numerous violations of the
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Respondent, Eagle Market Makers, Inc. (Eagle), an Illinois firm, for engaging in wash sales and noncompetitive transactions which were traded on the Chicago Board
Commodity pool The Kane Capital Investment Group and its President, Amrit Jaswant Singh Chahal have been ordered by a Viriginia federal court to pay USD1.2 million in a case stemming from a CFTC Complaint charging the defendants with commodity futures
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken another significant step toward establishing the regulatory regime for security-based swap dealers today by adopting a package of rules and rule amendments under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. These and other
By Blake Estes, counsel in Alston & Bird’s Financial Services & Products Group – Following the financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), as directed by the G-20 countries, developed consistent global
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former bitcoin-denominated platform and its operator with operating an unregistered securities exchange and defrauding users. The SEC has also charged the operator with making false and misleading statements in connection with an
Capital markets and banking technology specialist Sensiple is bringing its Regtech product SETREGA for MiFIDII, SFTR and EMIR compliance and reporting to the FR2 data centre in Frankfurt as part of a new agreement with Transaction Network Services (TNS). Sensiple
