September 27, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Merrill Lynch charged with trading controls failures that led to mini-flash crashes

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that banking company Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay a $12.5 million penalty for maintaining ineffective trading controls that failed to prevent erroneous orders from being sent to the markets and causing mini-flash crashes. An SEC investigation found that Merrill Lynch caused market disruptions on at least 15 occasions…

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