Credit Suisse fixed the issue with an update of its trade reporting systems in November 2019. In addition, form February 2015 to April 2022, the firm failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system to help it comply with its trade reporting obligations for short sales. During this period, Credit Suisse conducted supervisory reviews aiming…
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The first change was implemented in July 2018 and caused the BIDS to overstate its advertised trading volume in 151 instances, which resulted in the overstating of 12,298,256 shares for 92 securities. The second change came in May 2019 when BIDS reconfigured its servers, causing the platform to overstate trade volume in 1,890 instances, which…
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CySEC also pointed out that, in its decision, it took into consideration that the Capital.com did submit the information, even if it was late. Furthermore, the company has had no similar violations in the past. Capital.com issued a response on the case: We have today received notification of a fine from the Cyprus Securities and…
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FINRA stated: Between January 2017 and January 2021, Crown Capital paid approximately $19.3 million in commissions earned by 18 of its registered representatives to 18 unregistered entities. The unregistered entities were corporations and limited liability companies created by the registered representatives to serve as doing business as names for their securities businesses and were disclosed…
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Barclays served as Premier FX’s sole banker in the UK. The bank failed to identify that Premier FX’s internal controls were deficient and because of that, failed its due diligence conduct. Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, said: Premier FX, which handled money on behalf of other people, presented particularly high risks…
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As result, Barclays the routed 19,500 orders for 2,500,000 contracts to the market unchecked. Of those 9,500 orders for 1,125,000 contracts were executed. Additionally, the firm did not prevent the entry of erroneous orders of a total of $11.8 million, rather than the intended $118,000. The company has accepted FINRA’s monetary penalty but has not…
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Many companies in the retail industry use the services of third-party firm for these reporting tasks. Admiral Markets AS also uses assistance of qualified and professional service providers for reporting. Admiral Markets stated: The company has made every effort to properly comply with its reporting obligations and to correct any errors identified in cooperation with…
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The regulator also alleges that Feist failed to get to know and understand Interactive Broker’s AML program and did not even supervise the company’s AML analysts. FINRA highlighted: While he was AMLCO, Feist learned about, but failed to recognize the import of, facts that should have alerted him that Interactive Brokers' AML program was not…
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Credit Suisse violations FINRA discovered that Credit Suisse failed to comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Customer Protection Rule in two ways. First, the company is required to maintain possession or control of billions of dollars of fully paid and excess margin securities it carried for customers, which it failed to do. The second…
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The Panel also pointed out that BGC Partners’ failure appeared to be the result of unintentional operator error. It concluded that it is likely this error could have been avoided if BGC Partners had updated its systems to incorporate enhanced technological safeguards. The official statement said: Although enhanced technological safeguards may not be required where…
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