The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that KPMG has agreed to pay more than $6.2 million to settle charges that it failed to properly audit the financial statements of an oil and gas company, resulting in investors being misinformed about the energy company’s value. KPMG’s engagement partner in charge of the audit also…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (TYO:8306) unit The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) 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…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four former Atlanta-area brokers with fraudulently inducing federal employees to roll over holdings from their federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) retirement accounts into higher-fee, variable annuity products. The four former brokers charged are Christopher S. Laws, Jonathan D. Cooke, Danny S. Hood, and Brandon P. Long. The…
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The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has informed that, at its meeting held on 26 June 2017, decided to impose an administrative fine of €10.000 to Mr. Charalambos Kiritsis for non compliance paragraph 9(1) of CySEC Directive DI144-2007-01 of 2012 for the Authorisation and Operating Conditions of CIFs (‘the Directive’) since,…
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The Court of First Instance has ordered Ms Sun Min to pay the restoration amount of $15,629,341 to 51 investors affected by her insider dealing in China Huiyuan Juice Group Limited (Huiyuan) shares, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) just announced. The Court order granted on 17 July 2017 was made under section 213(2)(b)…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Halliburton Company with violating the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) while selecting and making payments to a local company in Angola in the course of winning lucrative oilfield services contracts. Halliburton, which profited by approximately $14 million from…
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The Eastern Magistrates’ Court today convicted Ms Yan Ching Ching after she pleaded guilty to three counts of making false or misleading representations in support of her licence application to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). Yan, among other things, failed to disclose her previous criminal convictions in her SFC licence application in…
Read moreThe Disciplinary Committee of Nasdaq Stockholm has found that XBT Provider AB has breached Nasdaq Stockholm’s Rule Book for Issuers of warrants and certificates and other regulations in several respects and, accordingly, has imposed a fine on XBT amounting to SEK 1,000,000. XBT has not complied with the internal routines and procedures (Internal Rule Book)…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Simon Posen of New York, New York for engaging in thousands of incidents of “spoofing” in gold, silver, and copper futures contracts traded on the Commodity Exchange, Inc., and crude oil futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange over a…
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Financial Choice Pty Ltd, an Australian financial services provider, has paid two ASIC infringement notice penalties totalling $21,600, after making misleading representations in marketing emails sent to consumers and on its website. The first infringement notice related to a representation made by Financial Choice in bulk emails the company sent to around 215,000 consumers in…
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