Tag: JPMorgan

May 18, 2014 BY Mike Fox

JP Morgan keeps building Plus500 stake, now above 11%

A small percent of shares are being held by JP Morgan' asset management arm (3.72%), meaning they are being held mostly for clients of JP Morgan, but most of the shares are being held by JP Morgan Securities (7.39%), meaning that the bank is likely building a position itself in the company.

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March 13, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

JP Morgan Buys Into Plus500

JP Morgan Asset Management and JP Morgan Securities acquire 4% of Plus500. CFD broker Plus500 (PLUS.L) can look back over recent events with some degree of satisfaction, with the entity continually demonstrating high stock prices since its equally high-ticket IPO. Today, the company has published a notification of major interest in shares, denoting that corporate…

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January 26, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Brokerage ConvergEx says Bitcoin prices are stabilizing

JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon trash talks the digital currency citing rather old media stories It almost seems as if the days when we saw gargantuan moves in Bitcoin prices are long gone now. The market has settled down after the Chinese Bitcoin downfall in December and it has also recovered rather steadily from that too.…

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January 08, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

JP Morgan fined $2.6 billion for failing to anticipate Madoff’s Scheme

The megabank adds yet another lawsuit to its growing settlements list The never-ending story of banking industry heavyweights getting hefty fines goes on with yet another twist. First it was the uncovering of mortgage fraud, then the Libor scandal, followed by the London Whale and now we still have an ongoing investigation surrounding the 4pm London…

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October 22, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

CFTC fines JP Morgan $100 million in shadow of $13B DoJ settlement

Lesson learned? Right or wrong, don't (overly) fight your regulator. In normal times, a $100 million fine levied against a respected, regulated, licensed broker would make headlines. Big headlines. But today's announcement that the CFTC, with its staff now back at work after the US Government shutdown, has fined JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) $100 million over…

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