The ex-CEO was banned for 28 months for placing - and concealing - uncovered short selling orders through his personal account and a client's discretionary account in 2014.
April 1, 2020Nine Masts Capital sold shares in Yuzhou Properties in May 2015 before a share placement was complete, based on verbal confirmation of its allotment.
April 19, 2019Goldman Sachs India Investment, along with three other offenders, has been fined for naked shorting by South Korean authorities
April 10, 2019The FSS plans to tighten monitoring of unfair trading practices, namely high-frequency trading, false disclosures and unlawful short-selling. Merrill Lynch, Franklin Templeton under scrutiny.
February 28, 2019SFM HK Management Ltd, owned by New York's Soros Fund Management, was fined HK$1.5mn for short selling Great Wall Motors bonus shares before they were available for trading.
December 7, 2018The FSC found that Goldman Sachs conducted naked short selling worth about KRW 40 billion in late May. Naked short selling is prohibited in South Korea.
November 29, 2018Huatai Financial's unintentional short sale of Great Wall Motor bonus shares in 2015 was as a result of inadequate systems and internal controls.
September 19, 2018South Korean branch of Goldman Sachs International said its naked shorts were the result of an institutional investor reversing a decision to lend it shares; the firm faces a fine up to $896,000.
June 19, 2018Goldman Sachs Seoul branch unable to buy back stock which it had sold short, indicating borrowed stocks were not in its possession at the time of short selling.
June 11, 2018