Category: Regulation

Whistleblower
June 25, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives $125,000 award from SEC

So far, the agency has awarded over $501 million to 85 individuals for their help since the first award was issued in 2012. Payment of the awards is taken out of an investor protection fund set up by Congress. It is financed through monetary sanctions of security law violations paid to SEC. To be eligible…

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fca warning
June 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Frisky Loans, FIRST BROKERS and others added to FCA warning list

Frisky Loans Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Website: https://www.friskyloans.co.uk/ FIRST BROKERS Address: Tera Holding Ltd, Flat A, 15F Hillier Comm, Bldg 65-67 Bonham Street East, SheunDetails provided areg Wan, Hong Kong. Telephone: +44-2038-852-011, 020 8068 0274, +272-1204-8669, +8-5-239-733-927 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Website: www.fbrokers.com AnyTrades / www.anytrades.com / www.anytradesconsulting.com Telephone: +45 78 150 480; +44 203 670 0079;…

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Whistleblower
June 22, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives nearly $700K award from SEC

So far, the agency has awarded over $501 million to 84 individuals for their help since the first award was issued in 2012. Payment of the awards is taken out of an investor protection fund set up by Congress. It is financed through monetary sanctions of security law violations paid to SEC. To be eligible…

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Canadian regulator BCSC warns against Highgoldminings.com, Crypto Hallmark Investment and others
June 22, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Canadian regulator BCSC warns against Coinmining.Ltd and others

Sblock-Trade is allegedly located in UK, Colombia and Nova Scotia. The company offers investment plans in cryptocurrency trading. Sblock-Trade is not registered to trade in securities or derivatives in BC. Cryptrade24 is allegedly based in Churchill, Manitoba. The company offers investment plans in cryptocurrency trading, however it is not registered to trade in securities or derivatives in BC.…

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fca warning
June 19, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Smart bonds, Select Invest and others added to FCA warning list

Smart bonds Website: www.my-smartbonds.co.uk Select Invest Website: www.select-invest.co.uk The Investmentheads Address: 2 Constance Street, London, E16 2DQ Telephone: 07832190826 Email: [email protected] Website: https://investmentheads.co.uk/ CompareFixedRateBonds Address: 52-160 Kemp House, London, EC21 V2NX Telephone: 020 8050 1504 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.comparefixedratebonds.co.uk/ British Bonds Address: 2 Bankside London Website: www.british-bonds.org.uk First Claims Group Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.paydayclaimhelp.co.uk/ FCA…

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FCA bans sale of crypto-derivatives to retail consumers
June 19, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Mini-bond marketing ban to be made permanent in the UK

The mini-bond ban will apply to the most complex and opaque deals where the raised funds are lent to a third party, to buy or acquire investments or to buy or fund the construction of property. There are exemptions such as regularly traded listed bonds, companies which raise funds for their own commercial or industrial…

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