The SFC noted that in practice CESHK failed to manage and invest the funds' assets and investments on a discretionary basis as required by the regulator. Instead, the decision when to invest was up to the fund’s directors. The firm considered that its main investment objective was for making sure that the funds’ assets were…
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The Aussie watchdog discovered that despite the ban which is in force until 5 September 2024, Toledo continued to provide financial advice and deal in financial products. Moreover, according to the regulator, he provided financial advice to a SMSF to invest in Premier Realty Group Pty Ltd and arrange a sale of 70,000 shares in…
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CySEC’s decision follows an investigation into Maxigrid’s non-compliance. The official announcement stated: Maxigrid's Board of Directors was found to have acted in violation of this article over its failure to define and take responsibility for the implementation of arrangements that ensure the effective and prudent management of the Company, in a way that promoted the…
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Credit Suisse fixed the issue with an update of its trade reporting systems in November 2019. In addition, form February 2015 to April 2022, the firm failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system to help it comply with its trade reporting obligations for short sales. During this period, Credit Suisse conducted supervisory reviews aiming…
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The first change was implemented in July 2018 and caused the BIDS to overstate its advertised trading volume in 151 instances, which resulted in the overstating of 12,298,256 shares for 92 securities. The second change came in May 2019 when BIDS reconfigured its servers, causing the platform to overstate trade volume in 1,890 instances, which…
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CySEC also pointed out that, in its decision, it took into consideration that the Capital.com did submit the information, even if it was late. Furthermore, the company has had no similar violations in the past. Capital.com issued a response on the case: We have today received notification of a fine from the Cyprus Securities and…
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FINRA stated: Between January 2017 and January 2021, Crown Capital paid approximately $19.3 million in commissions earned by 18 of its registered representatives to 18 unregistered entities. The unregistered entities were corporations and limited liability companies created by the registered representatives to serve as doing business as names for their securities businesses and were disclosed…
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Barclays served as Premier FX’s sole banker in the UK. The bank failed to identify that Premier FX’s internal controls were deficient and because of that, failed its due diligence conduct. Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, said: Premier FX, which handled money on behalf of other people, presented particularly high risks…
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As result, Barclays the routed 19,500 orders for 2,500,000 contracts to the market unchecked. Of those 9,500 orders for 1,125,000 contracts were executed. Additionally, the firm did not prevent the entry of erroneous orders of a total of $11.8 million, rather than the intended $118,000. The company has accepted FINRA’s monetary penalty but has not…
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Many companies in the retail industry use the services of third-party firm for these reporting tasks. Admiral Markets AS also uses assistance of qualified and professional service providers for reporting. Admiral Markets stated: The company has made every effort to properly comply with its reporting obligations and to correct any errors identified in cooperation with…
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