The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed and settled enforcement actions against Hard Eight Futures, and Igor Chernomzav for spoofing – bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution – and for engaging
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged Tate Street Trading of Richmond, Virginia and Leonard J Cipolla of Chesterfield, Virginia, with misappropriating customer funds and fraudulent solicitation in connection with a commodity pool. The complaint also charges Tate
Dallas, Texas-headquartered Esposito Securities is a US-registered broker dealer offering a wide range of services for the ETF industry as well as global equity trading and advanced options strategies. The firm is known for its ETF seeding program which lay
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is to undertake remedial efforts and pay USD20 million in penalties to settle SEC and CFTC charges that it failed to implement policies to manage certain risks as required by US laws and SEC and
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued two orders filing and settling charges against Tullett Prebon Americas Inc, an interdealer broker and CFTC-registered introducing broker headquartered in New Jersey, requiring the company to pay a total of USD13 million
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
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 VIX is not broken says Taylor Lukof of ABR Dynamic Funds. “There was an opportunity for the VIX to break on the 5th of February and here we are two weeks later and the VIX is at 18, down
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
