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News on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, and technologies addressing practices like insider trading, market manipulation, and spoofing.
Market Abuse
SFC Proposes SFO Revisions to Improve Enforcement Tools
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 13/06/2022
The amendments relate to SFO provisions on remedial orders, insider dealing, and advertising of investment products.
Cryptocurrency
US SEC Reportedly Probing Binance 2017 Token Offering
By Editors | 09/06/2022
The SEC is also investigating market making companies owned by Binance’s CEO and whether company insiders may have engaged in trading abuses.
Market Abuse
Old Misconduct Patterns Are Repeating in New Settings: FMSB
By Editors | 08/06/2022
Forms of misconduct which have been present for hundreds of years are playing out in new digital asset classes, including crypto assets and NFTs.
Market Abuse
Australian Man Pleads Guilty to Pump and Dump Scheme
By Editors | 08/06/2022
The man, Gabriel Govinda, will be the first to be convicted in Australia over a social media pump-and-dump scheme.
Anti-Bribery & Corruption
Former CSRC Official Sentenced to Death With Reprieve
By Editors | 05/06/2022
A former CSRC official and Communist Party city chief was found to have taken $41mn in bribes between 2004 and 2020.
Market Abuse
CFTC Files Suit Against Winklevoss-founded Crypto Exchange
By Editors | 03/06/2022
The CFTC says Gemini misled the regulator about whether it could prevent manipulation in the prices used as a benchmark for a bitcoin futures contract.
Market Abuse
Korea FSS to Form Taskforce Targeting Illegal Short Selling
By Editors | 02/06/2022
The task force will first conduct fact-finding inspections and investigate areas with a high probability of short selling violations.
Market Abuse
Ex-OpenSea Employee Charged for Insider Trading in NFTs
By Editors | 02/06/2022
The former product manager traded on confidential information about which NFTs were going to be featured by OpenSea’s website.
Market Abuse
US SEC Penalises Online Broker Over Meme Stock Restrictions
By Mark Johnston | 01/06/2022
In January 2021, TradeZero America halted trading in three meme stocks for about 10 minutes, but later told investors it had resisted instructions from its clearing broker to do so.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
India: AMFI Directs Fund Managers to End Remote Work Arrangements
By Editors | 31/05/2022
AMFI’s advisory asks fund managers to end flexibilities that allowed employees to work from their homes by 10 June 2022.
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