As per the court order, Scholz is barred from hosting online groups for which he charged membership fee and in which messages are exchanged by members about share trades without an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFS). He is also prohibited from carrying on a financial services business in the country. ASIC filed a suit against…
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When a trader told a client that CGMAL advertised facilitation flow using "Natural" IOIs, Shaw instructed the trader to deceive clients about the source of liquidity behind such IOIs. Furthermore, he misrepresented the client to maintain the falsehood created by the mislabeled IOI. Since at least 2015, Shaw has provided inaccurate information to clients or…
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CFDs are leveraged derivative contracts and are regarded as a high-risk product. ASIC takes the regulation of offering such instruments very seriously and imposes heavy penalties on unlicensed CFD traders. Additionally, the Australian regulator found that Finerty mislead and deceived his clients about the performance of Robot 1 and “directed or assisted” clients to mislead…
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According to the official announcement, Urra, Gonzalez and Sheth placed small orders which they did planned to execute on the opposite side of the order book around the same time. The FCA stated: The FCA considers that the individuals repeated this pattern of deliberate and intentional market manipulation on a number of occasions and were…
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In its investigation, ASIC found that Suncoast Trading, Equity Trade, nor Jennings hold the necessary Australian Financial Services licence to provide financial services. Furthermore, it was discovered that Jennings had some clients put their deposits into his personal trading account and traded CFDs without consulting them. He made false or misleading statements to his clients…
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Regarding Bringans, the regulator stated: In banning Mr Bringans, ASIC found that he is not adequately trained and competent, that he is not a fit and proper person to provide financial services, and that he ignored one of his key duties as a responsible manager, which was to ensure that Sirius Financial complied with the…
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The SFC noted that Kwong Shing admitted that from 2 August 2013 to 16 December 2013 he used two of his client’s securities accounts and made eight stocks transactions without approval. The regulator pointed out that these transactions resulted in trading profit of $172,890 to one of the accounts and in $48,321 loss to the…
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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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ASIC stated: As expected, retail clients have not made any losses (or profits) from trading binary options with licensed issuers since the product intervention order took effect. The regulator pointed out that during the period of the ban, 68% of wholesale clients lost money trading binary options in that period as the ban does not…
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SFC stated in the official announcement: The investigation also revealed that Poon failed to take reasonable steps to establish three clients’ financial situations and investment experience during account opening between May 2019 and February 2020. The SFC considers that Poon has also failed to act with due skill, care and diligence, and in the best…
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