The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed an action in the federal court in Austin, Texas, charging Richard D. Theye and his company, Micind Capital Management, with fraud in connection with running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. On 17

The Managed Funds Association says the SEC registration proposals are unwarranted and warns of detrimental costs to hedge funds and investors. MFA this week called

The CFTC has filed an enforcement action against Charles L.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former McKinsey & Co global head Rajat K Gupta with insider trading for illegally tipping convicted hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam while serving on the boards of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed an action in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York against New York City fund manager Mark Evan Bloom and his fir

Mellon Financial Corporation is acquiring Evaluation Associates Capital Markets (EACM), a USD 4.5 billion fund of hedge funds manager based in Norwalk, CT.

The Honorable Jed S Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has entered a consent judgment against Defendant Robert Feinblatt in SEC v. Feinblatt, 11-CV-0170, an insider trading case the SEC filed on

The SEC has alleged that two M&A professionals, Nicos Achilleas Stephanou at UBS Investment Bank and Ramesh Chakrapani at Blackstone Advisory Services, tipped five individuals inclu

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained federal court consent orders resolving its remaining claims against defendants Robert D Watson and Daniel J Petroski, both of Houston, Texas, PrivateFX Global One Ltd, SA, and 36 Holdings Ltd. Global One, a corporation formed