The SEC has decided to go for an unconventional manner to teach people about ICOs and related scams. The SEC has just launched its very own fake cryptocurrency website, called HoweyCoin website. According to press, the SEC chose the Howey Coins because of the so called Howey Test, where the "an all too good to be…
Read moreThe SEC’s “SALI” tool will allow investors to identify individuals subject to judgments or orders in enforcement actions The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the launch of an additional online search feature that enables investors to research whether the person trying to sell them investments has a judgment or order entered against them in…
Read moreWhen it comes to regulations on cryptocurrencies, governments and central banks around the world have been almost equally tight on what is "allowed" and what not. The SEC is also making changes to the crypto industry and the taxes related to owning digital currencies, treating them as assets. Now, one very special group of entities…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to propose a package of rulemakings and interpretations designed to enhance the quality and transparency of investors’ relationships with investment advisers and broker-dealers while preserving access to a variety of types of advice relationships and investment products. Under proposed Regulation Best Interest, a broker-dealer would be…
Read moreIntercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX), a full-service stock exchange, including trading, data and corporate listings services. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged the pastor of one of the largest Protestant churches in the country and a self-described financial planner in a scheme to defraud elderly investors by selling them interests in defunct, pre-Revolutionary Chinese bonds. The SEC's complaint alleges that, in 2013 and 2014, Kirbyjon Caldwell,…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Aegis Capital Corporation, a New York-based brokerage firm, has admitted that it failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on numerous suspicious transactions. Broker-dealers are required to file SARs for certain transactions suspected to involve fraudulent activity or have no business or apparent lawful purpose. The…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed the public that it has voted to propose new Rule 610T of Regulation NMS to conduct a Transaction Fee Pilot in NMS stocks. The proposed pilot would subject stock exchange transaction fee pricing, including “maker-taker” fee-and-rebate pricing models, to new temporary pricing restrictions across three test groups, and…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged Silicon Valley-based private company Theranos Inc., its founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and its former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani with raising more than $700 million from investors through an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company’s technology,…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has charged a former chief information officer of a U.S. business unit of Equifax with insider trading in advance of the company’s September 2017 announcement about a massive data breach that exposed the social security numbers and other personal information of about 148 million U.S.…
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