Prime broker Linear Investments disputes £409,300 FCA fine LeapRate

September 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Prime broker Linear Investments disputes £409,300 FCA fine

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just published a Decision Notice concerning Linear Investments Limited (Linear). Linear failed to take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively to ensure potential instances of market abuse could be detected and reported. The failure occurred from 14 January 2013 to 9 August 2015. Linear…

September 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC charges former CEO of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile with FCPA violations

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the former CEO of Chilean-based chemical and mining company Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, S.A. (SQM) has agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve charges that he violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). According to the SEC’s order, over the course of seven years, SQM’s…

September 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SG Americas Securities fined $800.000 for improper handling of ADRs

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that SG Americas Securities LLC will pay more than $800,000 to settle charges of improper handling of “pre-released” American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), predominantly by its predecessor entity. In its order against SG Americas, a registered broker-dealer and subsidiary of Paris-based Société Générale S.A., the SEC found that…

September 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC fines Mizuho Bank $250,000

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (Mizuho) for engaging in multiple acts of spoofing in a variety of futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, including futures contracts based on United States Treasury notes and Eurodollars. The…

September 20, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CFTC hits Geneva Trading USA with $1.5M fine for Spoofing

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Geneva Trading USA, LLC, a proprietary trading firm in Chicago, Illinois, for engaging in the disruptive trading practice of “spoofing.” The Order finds that Geneva engaged in this activity through three of its employees identified in the…

September 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Group subsidiary reaches ISDAfix settlement with CFTC

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against ICAP Capital Markets LLC (ICAP), now known as a NEX Group plc (LON:NXG) subsidiary company Intercapital Capital Markets LLC (ICAP), for, by and through certain of its brokers, aiding and abetting numerous attempts by several of its bank clients to manipulate…

Nasdaq Copenhagen Improves Small Cap Market Access For Non-Nordic Trading Members

September 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq Stockholm fines Oscar Properties Holding AB SEK 410,000

The Disciplinary Committee of Nasdaq Stockholm has found that Oscar Properties Holding AB (“Oscar Properties” or the “Company”) has breached Nasdaq Stockholm’s Rule Book for Issuers (the “Rule Book”) and, accordingly, has imposed a fine on Oscar Properties amounting to two annual fees, corresponding to an amount of SEK 410,000. The Disciplinary Committee has found…

September 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cowen Execution Services fined $2.75 million for providing deficient blue sheet data

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Convergex Execution Solutions LLC, now known as Cowen Execution Services LLC, will pay $2.75 million to settle charges that the broker-dealer firm provided the SEC with incomplete and deficient securities trading information known as “blue sheet data.” According to the SEC’s order, for nearly four years…

September 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC fines LQD Markets €50.000

Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has just announced that it has fined LQD Markets €50.000. The full note issued by CySEC on the matter reads as follows: 04 September 2018 CYSEC Board Decision Announcement date: 04.09.2018; Board decision date: 02.07.2018 Regarding: LQD Markets Ltd Legislation: The Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law Subject: Fine…

August 28, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Transamerica entities to pay $97 Million to investors

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges against four Transamerica entities for misconduct involving faulty investment models and ordered the entities to refund $97 million to misled retail investors. According to the SEC’s order, investors put billions of dollars into mutual funds and strategies using the faulty models developed by investment adviser AEGON…

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