The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a whistleblower award to an anonymous overseas foreign national of half a million dollars. The SEC has reported more than USD2 billion in monetary sanctions from recent actions brought by whistleblowers, and
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved for publication a proposed exemptive order that would permit derivatives clearing organisations ICE Clear Credit LLC, ICE Clear US, Inc., and ICE Clear Europe Limited (ICE DCOs) to invest, subject to certain
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Swapnil Rege, a former portfolio manager for a Connecticut-based hedge fund registered as a commodity pool operator (CPO), for fraudulently mis-marking swap valuations to artificially inflate
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has exempted certain multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and organised trading facilities (OTFs) authorised within the European Union (EU) from the requirement to register with the CFTC as swap execution facilities (SEFs). The order will
The CFTC has ordered JPMorgan to pay a record USD920.2 million, the largest amount of monetary relief ever imposed by the CFTC, to settle charges of manipulative and deceptive conduct and spoofing.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
New US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Heath P Tarbert has made appointments to key positions in his Office. Jaime L Klima will serve as Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer, N Charles “Charlie” Thornton III will serve as
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced its 100th whistleblower award since the creation of the SEC Whistleblower Program as part of the Dodd Frank Act in 2010. “The first 100 Dodd-Frank Act whistleblowers proved that whistleblowing works,” says leading
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained USD1,127,855 in restitution for defrauded pool participants and USD3,383,565 in civil monetary penalties in a federal court Default Judgment Order against Defendants. Gerard Suite (who is known by numerous aliases, including Rawle Gerard
Blaine Bortnick, managing partner of the New York office for Rasco Klock, along with James Halter, special counsel to the firm, have won a case on a motion to dismiss a USD1 billion lawsuit brought by New York-based hedge fund
Joseph Dufresne (a/k/a Joseph James) and Megan Renkow (a/k/a Megan James), and their companies, United Business Servicing, LLC and United Business Servicing, Inc. (collectively United Business) are to pay USD4.9 million to settle CFTC charges regarding a the fraudulent sale
