The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has been granted the Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) status by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This regulatory status confirms that EEX can directly admit US trading participants for trading on the
Long/short equity and risk arbitrage strategies are expected to see the greatest inflows of capital this year, according to a survey by Deutsche Bank.
The whistleblower attorney who represents David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital hedge fund and has helped qui tam whistleblowers return more than a half-billion dollars to taxpayers, has criticised the USD26.3m federal False Claims Act settlement with Allied Capital’s Business Loan Express
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges that Moore Capital Management and its affiliates attempted to manipulate the settlement prices of platinum and palladium futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil injunctive action against Drake Asset Management, LLC (Drake), of Glen Head, NY, and Oliver R Grace, Jr, of Hobe Sound, FL, for conducting a scheme to evade the group purchase limits
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved a final rule requiring certain advisors to private funds that are dually registered with the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to report information to the SEC for use by
The US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts has charged Andrey C Hicks of Boston, Massachusetts, in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday, 28 October, 2011. Hicks was charged with committing wire fraud, attempting to commit wire fraud, and aiding
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained federal court orders requiring Rodney W Whitney of Thomasville, North Carolina, Nicholas T Cox of Denton, North Carolina, and Integra Capital Management, LLC (Integra), which formerly operated out of High Point,
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an asset freeze against a Boston-area money manager and his investment advisory firm charged with misleading investors in a supposed quantitative hedge fund and diverting portions of investor money into his personal bank
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil complaint charging Michael Justin Hoopes of Rexburg, Idaho, with fraud and misappropriation in connection with a commodity futures Ponzi scheme that defrauded Idaho residents, among others. On 25 October,
