Category: Charges

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November 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Petroleum engineer settles charges of insider trading ahead of oil discovery announcement

A petroleum engineer who worked at Texas-based energy company Apache Corporation has agreed to settle the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that he conducted insider trading ahead of a market-moving announcement about the company’s discovery of a significant new oil source. The SEC alleges that Christopher J. Lollar traded on nonpublic information while…

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Securities and Exchange Commission proposes Transaction Fee Pilot for NMS Stocks
November 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Millennium settles charges of illegal short selling in advance of stock offerings

Investment advisory firm Millennium Management LLC has agreed to pay more than $630,000 to settle charges that it shorted U.S. stocks in companies planning follow-on offerings and then illegally bought shares in the follow-on offerings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed earlier. An SEC investigation found that Millennium violated an anti-manipulation provision of…

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