The United States has reached an agreement with Barclays Capital, Inc. and several of its affiliates (together, Barclays) to settle a civil action filed in December 2016 in which the United States sought civil penalties for alleged conduct related to Barclays’ underwriting and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2005 and 2007. Barclays will…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Aegis Capital Corporation, a New York-based brokerage firm, has admitted that it failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on numerous suspicious transactions. Broker-dealers are required to file SARs for certain transactions suspected to involve fraudulent activity or have no business or apparent lawful purpose. The…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has informed the public that it has charged a California-based energy storage and power delivery product manufacturer and one of its former sales executives in a fraudulent revenue recognition scheme designed to inflate the company’s reported financial results. According to the SEC’s order, Maxwell Technologies, Inc. prematurely recognized revenue…
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The Court of Appeal on Friday, 23 March 2018, has dismissed an appeal by former director of LFE Corporation Bhd (LFE), Alan Rajendram a/l Jeya Rajendram, against his conviction for furnishing false statements to Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd (Bursa) in 2007. In 2012, Alan, 62, was sentenced to one year jail and fined a total…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has informed the public that it has charged Mr Farmouz Farhaad Mohammed, who is also known as Fred Mohammed, of Hope Island, Queensland with three counts of fraud under the Criminal Code (Queensland). Mr Mohammed appeared before the Richlands Magistrates Court on 12 March 2018. ASIC alleges that…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged Silicon Valley-based private company Theranos Inc., its founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and its former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani with raising more than $700 million from investors through an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company’s technology,…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has charged a former chief information officer of a U.S. business unit of Equifax with insider trading in advance of the company’s September 2017 announcement about a massive data breach that exposed the social security numbers and other personal information of about 148 million U.S.…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged foreign affiliates of KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, and BDO for their involvement in audit work that circumvented the full oversight of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The firms agreed to settle the charges by paying penalties or disgorging their profits from the…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) just informed the public that it has issued a restriction notice to Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited (IBHK), prohibiting it from dealing with or processing certain assets held in a client account (the Client Account) which is related to suspected insider dealing in the shares of Bloomage…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has charged two investment adviser subsidiaries of Voya Holdings Inc. with failing to disclose conflicts of interest and making misleading disclosures in connection with their practice of recalling securities on loan so their affiliates could receive tax benefits. The advisers agreed to pay approximately $3.6…
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