Paul Levenson, Director of the SEC’s Boston Regional Office commented: Microcap stocks can be particularly vulnerable to manipulative schemes, and investors should be alert to the heightened risks that exist during this national emergency. The SEC will continue to act quickly to protect investors from investment scams, including those seeking to capitalize on the COVID-19…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the filing of a federal civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Defendants Nicholas Gelfman, of Brooklyn, New York, and Gelfman Blueprint, Inc. (GBI), a New York corporation, charging them with fraud, misappropriation, and issuing false account statements in connection…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed StrongVest Global Advisers, LLC as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The StrongVest CWA Income ETF (Bats: CWAI), the firm’s first ETF, seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing its assets in a diversified portfolio of corporate bonds with varying maturities and equity…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained judgments against each of the Defendants and Relief Defendants in a fraudulent, Forex scheme involving misappropriation of customer funds and false statements to customers to conceal the fraud. The Orders impose permanent registration and trading bans against the Defendants and order the Defendants to pay over $11.6…
Read moreThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Barclays Capital, Inc. (Barclays), a Connecticut corporation headquartered in New York City which operates as a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc, for failing to diligently supervise its officers’, employees’, and agents’ processing of exchange and clearing fees it…
Read moreOTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, has announced First Security Inc. (OTCQX: FIIT), the holding company for First Security Bank, Inc., a Kentucky based banking corporation, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. First Security Inc. upgraded to OTCQX from the Pink® market. First…
Read moreCBOE will operate the web-accessible, secure, electronic trade matching engine and will also support surveillance and membership services.
Read moreAzul’s high throughput, low latency Java Virtual Machine, as well as the firm's 100% open source Java development kit, are now both certified with Red Hat’s business process management (BPM) and business rules management systems (BRMS) technologies
Read moreMonex Inc, the Japanese retail Forex broker, earlier today posted some of the financial metrics for the first month of 2015, with numbers painting a rather gloomy picture, as revenues fell on an annual and monthly basis, while financial expenses rose. Let's start with the operating revenues which amounted to JPY 4.53 billion (USD 38…
Read moreCitigroup Inc is exiting retail banking businesses in a number of countries, focusing more on institutional clients.
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