The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged Enrique F. Villalba, Jr., of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and his firm, Money Market Alternative, with operating a multi-million dollar commodity futures Ponzi scheme. The CFTC complaint, filed on 29 March 2010 in
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued an order filing and settling charges against Propex Derivatives Pty Ltd, a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Australia, for spoofing in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange E-mini S&P 500 futures market. The order finds that
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obtained USD260,000 in civil monetary penalties and equitable relief in separate federal judgment orders against Steven Leigh Shakespeare and his company Guardian Futures, a Texas introducing broker. The orders of permanent injunction, entered
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained federal court consent orders resolving its remaining claims against defendants Ray M White and CRW Management LP (CRW) and relief defendants Christopher R White and Hurricane Motorsports, LLC, all of Mansfield,
Two partners at Washington DC-based Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP have been included in The Best Lawyers in America, Derivatives L
The Regulatory Fundamentals Group (RFG), a New York-based firm that provides business and regulatory insights for alternative funds, institutional investors and their advisers, has released FATCA Watch, a customised "issue spotting" tool to help advisers and fund managers quickly determine
The Honourable Joseph A.DiClerico for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire has granted the SEC’s Motion for Voluntary Dismissal of Defendant Koji Goto and Relief Defendant Shaleen Cassily in an enforcement action the Commission filed
The Honourable Jed S Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has entered a final judgment approving a USD1.8m settlement between the SEC and hedge fund manager Douglas F Whitman and his firm Whitman
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a Texas resident and his company charged with falsely telling investors he was using their money to buy and restructure pools of non-performing home
