The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission has announced the creation of a new Annual Return regime for BVI investment funds.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released an alert to help firms prevent and detect unauthorised trading in brokerage and advisory accounts. The Risk Alert issued by the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) notes that although
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has submitted to judge Louis L. Stanton, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, the consent of Bernard L.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a federal civil enforcement action charging Alexander Giap (Giap) of Annandale, Va, with fraud by acting as an unregistered commodity trading advisor (CTA) and operating two separate fraudulent schemes involving commodity
The Managed Funds Association has named Carl Kennedy, a member of the public finance department and tax group at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Washington, DC, as a member of the
A US hedge fund manager has agreed to pay a USD250,000 civil penalty to settle charges that he violated reporting requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act by failing to report the exercis
One of the few sectors that have not really been hit hard by the credit crunch is the legal profession – at least its litigation specialists.
The hedge fund industry is concerned that a proposed Financial Industry Regulatory Authority rule designed to prevent the intentional circulation of rumours for the purpose of manipulating
Funds experts will examine Guernsey’s approach to the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) at an event in London this November. With uncertainty still surrounding aspects of the Directive, panellists from the UK and Guernsey will look at what
The Isle of Man’s Chief Minister Tony Brown has welcomed the progress report submitted by Michael Foot to the UK Chancellor Alistair Darling. Brown says: ‘The Isle of Man regards the review of British offshore financial centres as a wholly
