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September 24, 2015

Russian citizen, Yakov Shlyapochnik, and his Connecticut-based company, Nord Capital Advisors, LLC (NCA) have been ordered to pay a $280,000 penalty for failing to disclose NCA’s principal in registration filings and for engaging in fraud in soliciting prospective clients by failing to disclose material changes in NCA’s algorithmic trading program.  CFTC

September 24, 2015

The CFTC ordered commodities trading company Cargill de México SA De CV to pay a $500,000 penalty for executing wash trades involving corn, soybean, and wheat futures contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade and wheat futures contracts on the Kansas City Board of Trade.  CFTC

September 24, 2015

The CFTC settled charges against TeraExchange LLC for failing to enforce its prohibition on wash trading and prearranged trading.  CFTC

September 17, 2015

The CFTC ordered Robert M. McMahon of Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania, to pay a $171,000 penalty for engaging in a deceptive trading scheme involving Henry Hub Natural Gas Futures contracts, in which he would defraud his customers by taking the other sides of his customers trades and allocating to them the worse-priced contracts.  CFTC

September 17, 2015

The CFTC filed a complaint against Mintco LLC of Delray Beach, Florida, and its principals Stuart Rubin and Richard Q. Zimmerman, charging the defendants with unlawfully targeting low net-worth retail customers with telemarketing and off-exchange transactions for the purchase and sale of gold and other precious metals.  CFTC

September 17, 2015

The CFTC ordered Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., an Australia-based financial services company, to pay a $150,000 penalty for failing to comply with its obligation to submit accurate large trader reports for physical commodity swap positions.  CFTC

September 17, 2015

Terry Lee Phillips of Indianapolis, Indiana, and his two companies, Phillips Investment & Trust LLC and Corporate I Communications & Technology Inc., will pay over $200,000 to settle charges that they defrauded 11 investors out of at least $113,000.  CFTC

September 17, 2015

The CFTC has issued a cease and desist order against Coinflip, Inc. d/b/a Derivabit and its chief executive officer Francisco Riordan for conducting activity related to commodity options transactions without complying with the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC Regulations.  CFTC

September 16, 2015

The operators of a fraudulent debt collection scheme will be banned from the debt collection business under a settlement with the FTC, resolving charges that they illegally processed more than $5.2 million in payments from consumers for payday loan debts they did not owe. The settlement resolves a complaint the FTC filed against Kirit Patel, Broadway Global Master Inc., and In-Arabia Solutions Inc. In 2012, alleging that callers working with the defendants harassed consumers into paying on bogus debts, often pretending to be agents of law enforcement or fake government agencies such as the “Federal Crime Unit of the Department of Justice.” FTC

September 11, 2015

The CFTC has charged Hannes Tulving, Jr. of Newport Beach, California, and his company, The Tulving Company, Inc., with fraudulent solicitation and misappropriation of at least $17.8 million from over 380 customers for the purchase and sale of precious metals.  CFTC