Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) announced that it has today reprimanded and fined five directors of TRIVE Property Group Bhd (Trive) for knowingly furnishing false or misleading statements in the 2014 audited financial statements of the company to SC and Bursa Malaysia. SC’s sanctions arose as a result of its findings that Trive had failed to…
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Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) Limited ('MLEA') has paid a total penalty of $140,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel ('the MDP'), ASIC announced earlier today. The MDP found that between July 2014 and April 2016, MLEA: executed orders contrary to wholesale clients' instructions to opt out of…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it has taken civil penalty action against Mr Tarek Abdel Tawab Mohamed Abdel Bary (Tarek Bary) for insider trading in the shares of CSE Global Limited (CSE Global). Tarek Bary has admitted to contravening section 218(2)(a) of the SFA, and will pay MAS a civil penalty of…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) informed that it has imposed on Paul Walter, a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited (BAML) bond trader, a financial penalty of £60,090 for engaging in market abuse. Following an investigation, the FCA found that Mr Walter, an experienced trader, engaged in market abuse by creating a false…
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced it has fined J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC $1.25 million for failing to conduct timely or adequate background checks on approximately 8,600, or 95 percent, of its non-registered associated persons from January 2009 through May 2017. Federal securities laws require broker-dealers to fingerprint certain associated persons working in…
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HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, the Hong Kong branch of the Switzerland-based private banking business of HSBC Group, has been fined a record sum of HK$400 million after the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal (SFAT) upheld the Hong Kong SFC’s disciplinary action against the bank for material systemic failures in relation to the sale of…
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Australia financial regulator ASIC has announced that it has accepted enforceable undertakings from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ASX:ANZ), and National Australia Bank Ltd. (ASX:NAB), to address conduct relating to the Bank Bill Swap Rate (BBSW). Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and National Australia Bank (NAB) have today entered into enforceable undertakings (EUs) with ASIC…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order filing and settling charges against FCStone Merchant Services LLC (FCStone Merchant) for entering into multiple noncompetitive trades and against INTL FCStone Financial Inc. (FCStone Financial), a registered Futures Commission Merchant based in Chicago, Illinois, for reporting non-bona fide prices to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) between December 2013…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today announced that Capita Financial Managers Limited (CFM) has been publicly censured and will pay up to £66 million to those investors who suffered loss as a result of investing in the Guaranteed Low Risk Income Fund, Series 1 (or as it became later known, the Connaught Income Fund,…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against the Morgan Stanley and Co. Incorporated unit of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), for non-compliance with applicable rules governing Part 17 Large Trader reports to the CFTC spanning a ten-year period and affecting thousands…
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