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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Legg Mason Inc. will pay over $34 million to resolve an SEC charge that the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in a scheme to bribe Libyan government officials. According to the SEC’s order, between 2004 and 2010, a former Legg Mason asset management…
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FINRA has announced that it has fined Interactive Brokers LLC (Interactive) $5.5 million for Regulation SHO violations and supervisory failures spanning a period of at least three years. To limit ongoing naked short positions, firms are required by the SEC’s Reg SHO, after completion of a short sale transaction, to deliver the shares on settlement…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith has agreed to pay approximately $8.9 million to settle charges that it failed to disclose a conflict of interest arising out of its own business interests in deciding whether to continue to offer clients products managed by an outside third-party advisory…
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