Principal of binary options trading firm fined $200,000 for illegal off-exchange trading LeapRate

July 30, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Principal of binary options trading firm fined $200,000 for illegal off-exchange trading

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has informed the public yesterday that it has required Curtis Dalton of Middleton, Massachusetts to pay $200,000 for offering illegal off-exchange retail commodity transactions to U.S. and overseas customers while failing to be registered by the CFTC as required. Dalton offered transactions, which consisted of binary options in…

July 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

AR Capital LLC charged with wrongfully obtaining millions of dollars

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yesterday informed the public that it has charged AR Capital LLC, its founder Nicholas S. Schorsch, and its former CFO Brian Block with wrongfully obtaining millions of dollars in connection with two separate mergers between real estate investment trusts (REITs) that were sponsored and externally managed by AR…

July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nomura pays misled bond clients $25m after SEC charges

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yesterday informed the public that it has instituted two related enforcement actions against Nomura Securities International Inc. The Japanese financial holding company has agreed to repay approximately $25 million to customers for its failure to adequately supervise traders in mortgage-backed securities. Nomura bond traders made false and misleading…

July 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA fines the trade repository Regis-TR S.A. €56,000 for data access failures

EU’s securities markets’ regulator ESMA has just informed the public that it has fined the trade repository Regis-TR S.A. €56,000 for negligently failing to provide to regulators direct and immediate access to details of derivative contracts. The European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requires TRs to provide derivative contracts information as well as other data…

July 02, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fieldstone Financial Management Group charged with fraud

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced yesterday that it has charged Fieldstone Financial Management Group LLC and its principal Kristofor R. Behn with defrauding retail investment advisory clients. Behn also fraudulently misused approximately $500,000 of one investor’s funds to pay personal expenses. According to the SEC approximately 40 retail clients of Behn and…

June 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Former banker slapped on the wrist for crypto mining, while still employed

The regulatory wheels of justice may move slowly, but it appears that the long arm of the law of the self-regulatory body, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), got their man. Rules are rules, and Kyung Soo Kim, an ex-employee of Bank of America-owned broker-dealer Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., recently met his…

May 29, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

NSSC fines FPE Trading $165,000

The Nova Scotia Securities Commission announced earlier today that it has ordered Jean-Smaille Germeil and FPE Trading to pay an administrative penalty of $150,000, as well as to cover all the costs in connection with the investigation and conduct of this proceeding before the Commission in the amount of $15,000. Germeil and FPE Trading have repeatedly…

December 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

UBS fined $15m over deficiencies in anti-money laundering programs

UBS (NYSE:UBS) has agreed to pay $15 million total fine to FINRA, SEC and FinCEN. The financial services company failed to implement anti-money laundering programs. Susan Schroeder, FINRA’s Executive Vice President, Department of Enforcement, commented on the news: AML systems must be reasonably designed to monitor transactions for potentially suspicious activity. When firms are part of…

December 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Citadel Securities, Natixis and MUFG fined $6m for providing deficient blue sheet data

Three brokers will pay more than $6 million in order to settle Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges. Citadel Securities LLC, Natixis Securities Americas LLC, and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. have provided the SEC with inaccurate securities trading information, when asked for the so called “blue sheet data,” which the SEC uses to carry out regulatory…

August 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Moody’s fined $16.25 million by SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Moody’s Investors Service Inc., one of the nation’s largest credit ratings agencies, has agreed to pay a total of $16.25 million in penalties to settle charges involving internal control failures and failing to clearly define and consistently apply credit rating symbols. This marks the first time…

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