ASIC just announced that it has commenced proceedings for recovery of unpaid fines against Fast Access Finance Pty Ltd, Fast Access Finance (Beenleigh) Pty Ltd and Fast Access Finance (Burleigh Heads) Pty Ltd (the FAF Companies). In March 2017, the Federal Court fined the FAF Companies a total of $730,000, after finding in proceedings brought…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) informed that it has today imposed a financial penalty on Interactive Brokers (UK) (IBUK) in the amount of £1,049,412 for failings in its post-trade systems and controls for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions in the period February 2014 to February 2015 (“the Relevant Period”). IBUK is an online broker based…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has obtained an order in the High Court to disqualify Mr Fan Di, former chairman, president and executive director of Pearl Oriental Oil Ltd (Pearl Oriental) for defalcation, misfeasance and other misconduct towards the company. The Honourable Mr Justice Godfrey Lam granted the order to disqualify Fan…
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Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has added to its Investment Caution List unregulated forex company, named Aidan Trading, operating from website www.aidantrading.com. Aidan Trading claims to provide an online trading platform for forex, forex options, commodities and contracts for difference. BCSC informed that it has recently became aware of Aidan Trading…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Global Multi-Asset Management. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has issued a warning of the activities of an entity governed by Luxembourg law Algor Invest S.A.. The company is established at 10, boulevard de la Foire, L-1528 Luxembourg. The CSSF informs the public that Algor Invest S.A. is not supervised by the CSSF and has not…
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Defendants allegedly solicited more than $6 million for investments in a virtual currency known as “My Big Coin” The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a federal court enforcement action under seal on January 16, 2018, charging commodity fraud and misappropriation related to the ongoing solicitation of customers for a virtual…
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The High Court today informed that it has found that the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) had successfully proven an insider trading case against Chan Soon Huat, a former founder and director of WCT Bhd (WCT). In the suit that was filed in 2015, the SC claimed that Chan had breached section 188(2)(a) of the Capital…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Cross Ocean Adviser. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, announced that it has successfully passed all stages of the accreditation process by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and has been granted Local Operating Unit (LOU) status. NSD is the first and only company in Russia and the CIS countries that has received accredited LOU…
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