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September 30, 2015

Alfred C. Toepfer International, Inc., a global merchandiser of agricultural commodities, will pay a $400,000 penalty for failing to comply with its legal obligation to submit accurate monthly CFTC Form 204 Reports regarding the composition of Toepfer’s fixed price cash grain purchases and sales.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

September 30, 2015

The CFTC filed charges against Guardian Asset Group, LLC and its owner and principal, Andrew Kurzbard, both of West Palm Beach, Florida, alleging that the defendants engaged in illegal, off-exchange transactions in precious metals with retail customers on a leveraged, margined, or financed basis.  CFTC

Tagged in: Regulatory Violations,

September 30, 2015

The CFTC ordered Deutsche Bank AG to pay a $2.5 million penalty for swaps reporting violations and related supervision failures.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

September 29, 2015

The CFTC ordered Barbara Cohen of Tarpon Springs, Florida, to pay a $140,000 penalty on charges that she made false statements of material fact to CFTC staff and that the website of Cohen’s company, Pure Reason, LLC promoted Pure Reason’s trading software by demonstrating profitable trading results without disclosing that these results were based on hypothetical, and not actual, trades.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

September 29 ,2015

American Portfolio Asset Management, Inc. and its owner, Alan M. Kneller, both of Boca Raton, Florida, will pay over $578,000 in restitution and penalties to settle charges that they illegally offering off-exchange financed transactions in precious metals to retail customers.  CFTC

Tagged in: Regulatory Violations,

September 29, 2015

The CFTC ordered Daniel Bowman of Lisle, Illinois, to pay a $35,000 penalty to settle charges that he exceeded the spot month speculative position limit for the Live Cattle futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

September 29, 2015

The CFTC have filed a lawsuit against Harvard Assets LLC, London Assets Inc., and Harvard International Trading, Inc., all three operating in Florida, and their controlling person, Todd Owen Marshall for engaging in illegal, off-exchange transactions in precious metals with retail customers.  CFTC

Tagged in: Regulatory Violations,

September 28, 2015

The CFTC ordered Michael E. Simmons and Global Consortiums, LLC, both of Fayetteville, Georgia, to pay a $360,000 penalty and restitution totaling $229,660 for committing fraud and misappropriation in connection with operating a commodity pool that offered leveraged or margined off-exchange foreign currency transactions.  CFTC

Tagged in: Regulatory Violations,

September 25, 2015

Chicago-based Futures International LLC and its Chief Operating Officer Amedeo Cerrone of St. Charles, Illinois, have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges of failing to adequately record customer orders; failing to maintain required records relating to commodity futures transactions; submitting order tickets bearing false timestamps; unauthorized trading; and failing to provide adequate supervision.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

September 25, 2015

The CFTC has charged Safety Capital Management, Inc. and GNS Capital, Inc., both doing business as FOREXNPOWER, John Won, and Sungmi Kang with fraudulent solicitation of over $1.5 million from customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency and misappropriation of over $622,000 of customer funds.  CFTC

Tagged in: Foreign Exchange, Regulatory Violations,

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