The SFC reported that in July 2018, Deutsche Securities’ prime brokerage clients replied to the incorrect statements and oversold bonus shares issued by three Hong Kong-listed firms. The regulator revealed that Deutsche Securities discovered the issue within the same month of issuing the incorrect statements and in the following month tracked the problem to a…
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The firm was also found to have employed high-pressure tactics when it came to making sales, recommended trading sales which were found to be inappropriate for its clients, made deceptive representations to clients, failed to comply with several financial services laws, and finally implemented remuneration schemes and a trading floor culture based on maximum trade…
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The EU competition enforcer said in a statement: Today’s decision, correcting the procedural error and including a detailed reasoning on the fine calculation, imposes fines on the three entities of ICAP having participated in the five infringements at the time. The ruling from 2015 accused ICAP of Libor rigging the yen in several cartels with…
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Mung also failed to ensure transactions undertaken on behalf of the client were given priority over orders for his own account in the period between May 2017 and March 2018. In SFC’s decision to impose a fine on Ewarton, the regulator took into consideration the duration of the company’s misconduct. The Commission also took into…
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FCA’s statement said: Unauthorised investment advice exposes consumers to the risk of substantial losses because the adviser has not met the FCA’s tests of competence and fitness; nor do consumers have access to the Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme if things go wrong. The court ordered Maricar to pay restitution in…
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The regulator also found that Fulbright failed to report these incidents to the SFC immediately upon discovering them. In deciding the disciplinary sanction, the SFC took into account that adequate and effective internal control systems are fundamental to the fitness and properness of a licensed corporation and that Fulbright’s short selling failures lasted for at…
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CS&C’s general pool held firm and client money for both UK and non-UK clients. The FCA determined that the CSUK failed to arrange adequate protection for its clients’ assets under UK rules including: The firm did not have the right records and accounts to identify its customers’ client assets The firm did not undertake internal…
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Stephanie Avakian, Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, commented: Robinhood provided misleading information to customers about the true costs of choosing to trade with the firm. Brokerage firms cannot mislead customers about order execution quality. Joseph Sansone, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Market Abuse Unit, added: Robinhood failed to seek to obtain the best…
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The FCA stated that between April 2014 and December 2018 some retail and small business customers who had been offered consumer credit were treated poorly when they fell into debt. The regulator found that Barclays failed to treat customers fairly or to act with due skill, care and diligence. According to the FCA, Barclays failed…
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The CFTC also found that TFS-ICAP, its former CEO Ian Dibb and its former Emerging Markets desks head Jeremy Woolfenden failed to supervise the broker conduct. The enforcement action resolves that the defendants Dibb and Woolfenden are each to pay a fine of $500,000 for their individual supervisory failures. They have both agreed to not…
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