Category: Financial Services

Acquisition
December 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

United Fintech announces acquisition of Cobalt

Under the acquisition agreement, United Fintech will onboard Cobalt, its clients and employees onto its platform. However, Cobalt will continue to operate as a standalone company. Christian Frahm will serve as the new Chairman of Cobalt and Cobalt’s co-founder & Chief Product Officer Andrew Coyne and CEO Darren Coote will remain in leadership of the…

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December 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SEC charges eight Twitter and Discord influencers with running a $100 million securities fraud scheme

Joseph Sansone, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Market Abuse Unit, said: As our complaint states, the defendants used social media to amass a large following of novice investors and then took advantage of their followers by repeatedly feeding them a steady diet of misinformation, which resulted in fraudulent profits of approximately $100 million. Today’s…

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Whistleblower
December 13, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives a $20 million award from SEC

Creola Kelly, Acting Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower said: Whistleblowers may lead to the success of an enforcement matter by providing information that causes an investigation or examination to open or that meaningfully advances an existing investigation. Payment of the awards is taken out of an investor protection fund set up by…

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December 12, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA fines Metro Bank PLC £10 million for compliance lapses

In the official announcement, FCA alleges the bank was aware of its incorrect submission but did not offer an explanation in the quarterly update. The FCA stated: Metro Bank also failed to consider, and to seek legal advice on, whether the incorrect RWA figure ought to be qualified or explained in the October Announcement. As…

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SGX
December 12, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SGX FX volume surges 104% YoY in November

The Singapore Exchange said in the official press release: Record foreign exchange (FX) trading activity drove derivatives volume, amid optimism on Asian economies and signs that the U.S. Federal Reserve will slow its pace of interest-rate hikes. Derivatives daily average volume (DAV) for the period decreased to 1.1 million contracts, registering an 8.3% fall compared…

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Australia
December 12, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Four Chinese nationals based in Australia charged in a A$150 million cyber scam

The Scam The Aussie authorities found that the fraudsters employed sophisticated tactics in their operation. They used sophisticated social engineering methods to get in contact with the victims, including targeting them through dating sites, employment sites and messaging platforms before approaching them with the fraudulent investment opportunities. The victims who fell for the scam were…

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December 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA fines Santander UK £107.7 million for recurrent anti-money laundering lapses

Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the FCA, said: Santander’s poor management of their anti-money laundering systems and their inadequate attempts to address the problems created a prolonged and severe risk of money laundering and financial crime. As part of our commitment to prevent and reduce financial crime, we continue to…

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NFA Fine
December 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Gain Capital fined $700K by NFA for compliance violations

Gain Capital stopped the system malfunction but before it had done so it had incurred a loss of about $3 million. The company also made negative adjustment of the accounts of 17 customers by about $2.84 million and the positive adjustment of 33 customer accounts by about $35,000. These actions were approved by Gain Capital's…

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Broadridge
December 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge teams up with IntraFi to expand securities-based lending services

Mike Alexander, President of Wealth Management, Broadridge, said: Broadridge’s partnership with IntraFi expands the availability of securities-based lending to previously underserved parts of the market — community and regional banks, independent broker-dealers, and unaffiliated advisors and RIAs.This innovative joint solution for banks brings more capital to bear in the securities-based lending business and increases the…

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