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Regulatory Violations

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December 21, 2018

Newport Private Capital LLC and its principal, Jonathan Hansen, have been ordered to pay a $315,000 penalty for a "cherry-picking" scheme by which NPC entered multiple orders for commodity interests, but only allocated the orders to specific customer accounts after they were executed.  The defendants then preferentially allocated the transactions that turned out to be profitable to accounts in the name of Hansen's spouse, and not to the accounts of other NPC customers.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Regulatory Violations,

December 19, 2018

Following charges brought by the CFTC in 2016, Haena Park and companies affiliated with her, Phaetra Capital GP LLC, Phaetra Capital Management LP, and Argenta Group LLC, have been ordered to pay $23 million in restitution to defrauded investors in commodity pools operated by defendants.  Park made material misrepresentations and omissions concerning her trading expertise, and the defendants made and issued false documents to conceal their trading losses and misappropriations of investor funds, in addition to commingling funds and failing to operate the commodity pool as a separate legal entity.  CFTC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Misrepresentations, Regulatory Violations,

December 17, 2018

UBS Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay a $5 million penalty to the SEC, and a $10 million penalty to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to resolve claims that it failed to file required Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for transactions suspected to involve fraud or with no apparent lawful purpose.

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud, Regulatory Violations,

December 17, 2018

Bank of New York Mellon has agreed to pay more than $54 million to settle charges that it improperly handled “pre-released” American Depositary Receipts (ADRs).  ADRs are securities that represent shares in a foreign company, and ordinarily require that a corresponding number of foreign shares be held at a depository bank. However, “pre-release” allows ADRs to be issued without the deposit of foreign shares, provided that brokers have an agreement with a depository bank and the broker or its customer owns the required number of foreign shares. The SEC found that BNY Mellon improperly provided ADRs to brokers when, in fact, neither the broker nor its customer had the foreign shares needed to support those new ADRs, a practice which can result in inappropriate short selling and dividend arbitrage. SEC

Tagged in: Financial Institution Fraud, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

November 29, 2018

Professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer DJ Khaled have settled SEC charges that they promoted initial coin offerings (ICOs) by Centra Tech Inc. without making required disclosures about payments they received from Centra Tech.  Mayweather agreed to pay disgorgement, penalties, and interest totaling $614,775, and Khaled agreed to pay a total of $152,725. SEC

Tagged in: Cryptocurrency, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

November 16, 2018

CarrierEQ Inc. (Airfox) and Paragon Coin Inc. have agreed to pay civil penalties of $250,000 each to resolve charges that they conducted initial coin offerings (ICOs) in 2017 without registering the ICOs pursuant to federal securities laws.  Airfox's offering had raised $15 million and Paragon had raised $12 million.  The companies also agreed to provide compensation to harmed investors and to register their tokens as securities.  SEC

Tagged in: Cryptocurrency, Financial and Investment Fraud, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

November 7, 2018

Citibank N.A. has agreed to pay $38.7 million to settle charges that it improperly handled “pre-released” American Depositary Receipts (ADRs).  ADRs are securities that represent shares in a foreign company, and ordinarily require that a corresponding number of foreign shares be held at a depository bank. However, "pre-release” allows ADRs to be issued without the deposit of foreign shares, provided that brokers have an agreement with a depository bank and the broker or its customer owns the required number of foreign shares. The SEC found that Citibank improperly provided ADRs to brokers when, in fact, neither the broker nor its customer had the foreign shares needed to support those new ADRs.  SEC

Tagged in: Financial Institution Fraud, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

November 8, 2018

Zachary Coburn, the founder of EtherDelta, a digital "token" trading platform, settled SEC charges that the platform operated as an unregistered exchange.  Over an 18-month period, EtherDelta's users executed more than 3.6 million orders for ERC20 tokens, including tokens that are securities under the federal securities laws.  Because it was functioning as an online national securities exchange, EtherDelta was required to register with the SEC or qualify for an exemption.  Coburn consented to the order and agreed to pay $300,000 in disgorgement plus $13,000 in prejudgment interest and a $75,000 penalty.  SEC

Tagged in: Cryptocurrency, Financial and Investment Fraud, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

November 8, 2018

Commerzbank AG agreed to pay a $12 million civil fine and adopt compliance procedures to settle CFTC charges that it failed to supervise its Swap Dealer's activities and made misleading statements and material omissions to the CFTC concerning its Swap Dealer’s operations and compliance with the CEA and CFTC Regulations.  The CFTC found that Commerzbank failed to adopt any effective process for determining whether swap transactions with certain non-U.S. swap counterparties were subject to Dodd-Frank, failed to report swap transactions to swap data repositories, failed to submit Large Trader Reports, and and failed to execute certain swaps on swap execution facilities, all in violation of application rules and regulations.  CFTC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Regulatory Violations,

November 7, 2018

ITG Inc. and its affiliate AlterNet Securities Inc. have agreed to pay a $12 million SEC fine to settle charges that ITG made misstatements about the operation of its dark pool, POSIT, and failed to establish adequate safeguards and procedures to protect POSIT subscribers’ confidential trading information.  The SEC found that ITG improperly disclosed the confidential dark pool trading information of firm clients, and failed to disclose certain structural features of the dark pool, including segmentation and speed limits.  SEC

Tagged in: Dark Pools, Misrepresentations, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

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