The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has announced that it has reprimanded and fined Instinet Pacific Limited (IPL) $17.3 million after resolving concerns over IPL’s breaches of the Code of Conduct in relation to its electronic and algorithmic trading systems and alternative liquidity pool (ALP). In November 2016, the SFC and IPL jointly…
Read moreThe Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has informed the public that, at its meetings held on 25th September 2017 and 11th December 2017, decided to impose the following administrative fines for violations of the Transparency Requirements (Transferable Securities Admitted to Trading on a Regulated Market) Law of 2007, as amended (‘the…
Read moreSpaceship Financial Services Pty Ltd (Spaceship) and Tidswell Financial Services Pty Ltd (Tidswell) have each paid a $12,600 penalty for Infringement Notices issued by ASIC. ASIC's concerns related to misleading claims about the 'fundamental investment philosophy' of the Spaceship Super Fund’s "GrowthX" portfolio (Spaceship Fund), made on the fund’s website (www.spaceship.com.au) during 2017. In June…
Read moreCyprus financial regulator CySEC has announced that it has issued a €30,000 fine to Leadcapital Markets Ltd. Leadcapital operates the Retail FX broker brands Trade.com and FINEXO. According to CySEC, the sanction was imposed because Leadcapital did not act honestly, fairly and professionally in accordance with the best interests of its clients in Romania, in a roughly…
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It's a tough day for Aegis Capital Corp. getting fined not once, but twice - this time by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The amount was $550,000 and the reason was failing to have adequate supervisory and anti-money laundering (AML) programs tailored to detect "red flags" or suspicious activity connected to its sale of…
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The Eastern Magistrates’ Court today convicted Mr Chan Chi Kit of unlicensed dealing in securities in a prosecution brought by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the regulator announced earlier today. Chan pleaded guilty and was fined $8,000 and ordered to pay the SFC’s investigation costs. The Court heard that Chan carried on…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has reprimanded and fined UBS Securities Asia Limited (UBS Securities) $4.5 million for failing to put in place effective controls to record transactions and client consents in relation to its facilitation trading activities. In the course of an SFC inspection in 2016 and a…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that Electronic Transaction Clearing (ETC), a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, has agreed to settle charges that it illegally placed more than $25 million of customers’ securities at risk in order to fund its own operations. Among other things, the SEC found that ETC violated the…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has resolved its concerns with Deutsche Bank AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (DBAG) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Deutsche Securities Asia Limited (DSAL) over regulatory breaches related to short position reporting, unlicensed regulated activities and segregation of client monies. Under the resolution, the SFC publicly reprimanded and fined them…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced settled charges against Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. company for its failure to perform required gatekeeping functions in the unregistered sales of securities on behalf of a China-based issuer and its affiliates. The SEC’s order found that Merrill Lynch sold almost three million shares of…
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