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    Enforcement

    ASIC Sues Cigno, BSF Solutions Over Unlicensed Credit Offerings

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 04/10/2023

    Cigno Australia and BSF Solutions used a credit model that subjected some consumers to fees of more than 600% of their total loan amount.

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    Enforcement

    Barclays to Appeal India Whistleblower Retaliation Ruling

    By Mark Johnston | 03/10/2023

    Barclays is appealing an Indian court order that found it had violated its whistleblowing policy and retaliated against a former IT manager.

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    Enforcement

    CFTC Fines Goldman for Failing to Prevent Disruptive Trading

    By Mark Johnston | 03/10/2023

    Goldman’s surveillance was not properly monitoring for disruptive trading and its preventative control to suspend such trading malfunctioned.

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    Enforcement

    CFTC Fines Three Major FIs for Swap Reporting and Other Violations

    By Mark Johnston | 03/10/2023

    Affiliates of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Bank of America were fined a total $53mn for violating rules for swap dealers.

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    Enforcement

    Three Arrows Capital Co-Founder Jailed in Singapore

    By Mark Johnston | 03/10/2023

    The co-founder was jailed for not cooperating with the liquidator’s effort to recover funds to return to the creditors of the collapsed hedge fund.

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    Crypto / Digital Assets

    HK, Macau Police Make Four New Arrests in JPEX Case

    By Manesh Samtani | 03/10/2023

    Two Hong Kong residents were arrested in Macau and two more in Hong Kong. One was found with documents that were shredded and bleached.

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    Enforcement

    UBS Settles Credit Suisse Liability in Mozambique Bribery Case

    By Editors | 03/10/2023

    The settlement terms have not been made public, but reports say UBS will forgive part of a loan Credit Suisse made to Mozambique in 2013.

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    Enforcement

    Former Goldman Analyst, Three Others Charged for Insider Trading

    By Mark Johnston | 02/10/2023

    The former analyst tipped his friends to impending M&A deals. Together they made over $460,000 from trading on nonpublic information.

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    Enforcement

    US Regulators Penalise Shinhan Bank for AML Violations

    By Mark Johnston | 01/10/2023

    The US subsidiary of South Korea’s Shinhan Bank will pay a USD 15 million penalty to settle cases from FinCEN, the FDIC, and NYDFS.

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    Enforcement

    SFAT Upholds SFC’s Decision to Bar Ex-UBS Banker for Two Years

    By Mark Johnston | 30/09/2023

    The SFAT has upheld the SFC’s decision to prohibit Calvin Choi from re-entering the industry for two years.

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