The consent order finds that between April 2017 and February 2019, Pyatt accepted $276,850 from pool participants to trade commodity futures and forex. The US watchdog also discovered that Pyatt misappropriated most of pool participants’ funds for business expenses and personal use, and to make Ponzi-like payments to other pool participants, while using only a…
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The CFTC also found that TFS-ICAP, its former CEO Ian Dibb and its former Emerging Markets desks head Jeremy Woolfenden failed to supervise the broker conduct. The enforcement action resolves that the defendants Dibb and Woolfenden are each to pay a fine of $500,000 for their individual supervisory failures. They have both agreed to not…
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The order stems from a complaint against VCI filed on 14 February 2020. The court established that the defendants fraudulently solicited over 72 clients to invest in commodity pools that purportedly trade in forex and digital assets, including bitcoin, only to then misappropriate the money. Further, the court uncovered that the defendants lured their clients…
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The order also resolves a CFTC enforcement case from October 2019, which found that Szatmari and a business partner created and disseminated fraudulent solicitations that led 25,000 customers to open and fund trading accounts that generated $3.8 million in fees for Szatmari and his partner, while customers lost most or all of their funds. The…
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The US watchdog found that between January 2017 and March 2018 Salerno and his Pennsylvania-based companies solicited individuals on websites such as LinkedIn and Indeed.com and their own websites to become forex traders. The defendants required prospective traders to pay risk deposits and falsely promised to match it with some multiple of company funds in…
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Ben Radclyffe, who serves as commercial director, will have enhanced responsibility for client relationship handling and oversight of financial products. With 20-year background in finance and trading technology, he joined the company in March 2020, having worked at Deutsche Bank, UBS and Tower Research Capital. David Wong, Chairman of 100x Group, commented: These changes to…
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According to the regulator's order, from 2014 to 2016, the company failed to supervise accounts by not following its policy regarding trade move requests and having inadequate policies and procedures for reviewing customer accounts, introduced by Foremost Trading LLC and traded by the company’s principal, Mark Miller.. Gain also failed to ensure that its employees…
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The CFTC imposed a $135,000 civil monetary penalty against Donino and suspended him from trading for three months. The US watchdog found FNY Partners Fund vicariously liable for Donino’s spoofing. The CFTC imposed a fine in the amount of $450,000 on the company. Division of Enforcement Director James McDonald commented: This enforcement action demonstrates the…
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The CFTC requires Marex and Marex Spectron to pay a fine in the amounts of $250,000 and $120,000, respectively. Both entities would also cease and desists form any further violations of the regulations. Division of Enforcement Director James McDonald commented: The Division of Enforcement will remain vigilant in enforcing minimum capital requirements for registered entities…
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According to the US watchdog, from February 2013 to present, the defendants accepted $4.75 million from more than 150 victims. Avinash Singh falsely claimed to be a successful commodities trader in order to solicit potential victims to participate in Highrise. Cologero, Hemraj Singh and Rosseau also misrepresented the profits the commodity pool had generated and…
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