Metro Bank has been fined £16.67 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for serious financial crime failings, the regulator revealed on Tuesday. The FCA said that between June 2016 and December 2020, Metro failed to implement adequate systems and controls to monitor over £51 billion worth of transactions for potential money laundering. They explained…
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The financial giant was found to have breached several rules, including a failure to implement sufficient pre-trade controls and a lack of adequate monitoring of trading activity. The incident that led to the fine occurred on May 2, 2022, when a significant price drop was observed across multiple financial instruments and indices traded on Nasdaq…
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According to the SEC's order, Invesco falsely claimed that a significant portion of its assets under management were "ESG integrated." However, the reality was that many of these assets were held in passive exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that did not consider ESG factors in their investment processes. “Invesco told clients and stated in marketing materials that…
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The company is said to have failed to respond in a timely manner to multiple requests for information. The fines stem from three separate incidents between June 2021 and August 2023. In each case, FINRA said it requested information from Spartan Capital as part of an investigation, but the brokerage firm failed to meet the…
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According to FINRA, from August 2019 to June 2023, Morgan Stanley failed to establish and document a robust system to prevent the entry of erroneous orders. It is said that the firm's procedures for placing new clients into groups with specific order controls were unclear, and the rationale for setting thresholds for order size and…
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The investigation originated from Käärmann's inclusion on the HMRC list of individuals who received penalties for deliberate tax defaults in 2017/2018. While the FCA said in its release that it did not find that Käärmann acted with a lack of integrity or was unfit to perform his role, it determined that he should have notified…
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The CFPB said it found that Apple failed to send tens of thousands of consumer disputes to Goldman Sachs, the issuing bank for Apple Card. When disputes were eventually sent, Goldman Sachs did not follow federal requirements for investigating them, leading to delays in refunds and negative credit reporting. Additionally, Apple and Goldman Sachs reportedly…
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According to a FINRA Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC), Interactive Brokers made errors in calculating the number of excess shares of stocks listed on European exchanges it had available to return to customers. This resulted in over 800 instances where the firm returned borrowed shares prematurely, causing them to fall into a segregation…
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The SEC alleges that Cumberland has been engaged in buying and selling crypto assets offered and sold as securities for its own accounts since at least March 2018. According to the SEC, as part of its complaint, Cumberland acted as a dealer by trading crypto assets via its Marea online trading platform and by engaging…
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The CFTC revealed that Taishin executed 50 wash trades between October and December 2022, totaling 175 contracts worth approximately $17 million. The trades were designed to minimise market competition by offsetting purchases and sales of the same futures contract at the same price, effectively negating the risk and price competition inherent in open market transactions.…
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