According to securities filings, Mr Becker, SVB’s Chief Executive, and Mr Beck, the Chief Financial Officer, sold shares the week before the bank’s collapse. Becker sold $2.3 million worth of shares and Beck sold more than $575,000 worth of shares, which amounts to one third of his holdings in the company. SEC Chair Gary Gensler…
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According to the court filings, between May 2019 and November 2022, FTX’s customer assets were not separated from the company’s as represented to the customers. Furthermore, they were “routinely held by FTX’s sister digital asset trading company, Alameda” and misappropriated for “luxury real estate purchases, political contributions, and high-risk, liquid digital asset industry investments.” The…
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Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, said: While advancements in the virtual asset ecosystem bring new opportunities to investors, criminals are also finding new ways to orchestrate illicit schemes. The FBI remains committed to working alongside our domestic and international law enforcement partners to investigate and pursue subjects who orchestrate these…
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The news follows an The Wall Street Journal report that The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was planning to file a lawsuit against Paxos for violating investor protection laws. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao responded quickly on Twitter to Paxos’ decision to stop offering BUSD. He wrote: We were informed by Paxos they have been directed…
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Osman Nawaz, Chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Complex Financial Instruments Unit, said: Bloomberg has assumed a critical role as a pricing service to participants in the fixed-income markets and it is incumbent on Bloomberg, as well as on other pricing services, to provide accurate information to their customers about their valuation processes. This matter…
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In its agreement with Nexo, the US watchdog pointed out that the crypto company has cooperated with the staff. Furthermore, Nexo announced in December it will cease the offer and sale of EIP in certain states and is phasing out of products and services in the US. Nexo released a statement regarding the resolution with…
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Furthermore, SEC highlighted that in November 2022, Genesis announced it will not allow its Gemini Earn investors to withdraw their crypto assets as it lacked sufficient liquid assets due to volatility in the crypto asset market. The US regulator claims that the Gemini Earn program is essentially an offer and sale of securities under applicable…
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According to SEC, CoinDeal was never sold and no distributions were made to its investors. Furthermore, the defendants misappropriated millions of dollars of investor funds for personal use. Chandran even used the investment funds t buy cars, real estate, and a boat. Daniel Gregus, Director of the SEC’s Chicago Regional Office, said: We allege the…
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Creola Kelly, Acting Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower said: The whistleblower here made persistent efforts to bring the conduct to the attention of the SEC, another agency, and the company and is credited with the results of the company’s internal investigation. Payment of the awards is taken out of an investor protection…
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Joseph Sansone, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Market Abuse Unit, said: As our complaint states, the defendants used social media to amass a large following of novice investors and then took advantage of their followers by repeatedly feeding them a steady diet of misinformation, which resulted in fraudulent profits of approximately $100 million. Today’s…
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