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Reversals of Fraud Charges Highlight Difficulties in Bringing Market Manipulation Cases

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Establishing that criminal defendants engaged in market manipulation is extremely difficult, often due to the difficulty in establishing that the defendant created prices that did not reflect legitimate sources of supply or...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Navigating the Financial Markets Regulatory Landscape: Takeaways After the TOTSA Settlement

In the dynamic world of financial regulation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been actively addressing market manipulation with enforcement actions to ensure market integrity. The CFTC's recent settlement...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Charges Company for Allegedly Deficient ATM Disclosures

On June 25, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) charged an advanced materials company and its former executive officers with market manipulation, fraud and other securities law violations.  The charges...more

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The Current Economic Climate - A Golden Age for Fraud?

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This article is the first of a series on accounting fraud which follows our July and September webinars on “How to Commit Accounting Fraud: Why this can ultimately lead to corporate collapse.”...more

Cornerstone Research

Alleged Market Manipulation and the Pre-hedging of Large Trades

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Pre-hedging, or anticipatory hedging, is one of many risk management tools often used in principal-based OTC markets, such as commodities, foreign exchange (FX), or interest rate swap markets. It refers to trading conducted...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Artificial Intelligence, the SEC, and What the Future May Hold

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With the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial markets, broker-dealers and investment advisers need to pay attention to the risks posed by AI on firms’ compliance with federal securities laws. While machine...more

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SEC Cryptocurrency Enforcement: June 2023 Update

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As of June 6, the SEC has brought 24 cryptocurrency enforcement actions between litigations and administrative proceedings. The number of cryptocurrency enforcement actions brought by the SEC in 2023 is advancing at a record...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

U.S. Regulators File Complaints for Digital Asset Market Manipulation and Misappropriation

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint on Jan. 9, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Avraham Eisenberg. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

CFTC Action Against Decentralized Digital Asset Manipulation Is First of Its Kind

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") recently filed a novel civil enforcement action against Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging Eisenberg with a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Financial Crimes Makes Debut in FINRA Annual Priorities Preview

FINRA punctuated its annual post-New Year’s Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the “Report”), by including a new target category “Financial Crimes.” The inclusion of this category is noteworthy not...more

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FINRA 2023 Exam Priorities

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Every year the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issues its “Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program.” The Report covers issues noted during the prior year’s exams and topics that examiners...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC’s Enforcement of Fraudulent and Manipulative Pump-and-Dump Scheme in Crypto Commodities

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has two levels of jurisdiction under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). First, there is an exclusive (or regulatory) jurisdiction over “derivatives” on “commodities,”...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

In Depth: Regulation and Enforcement of the Digital Assets Markets, Part Two – Focus on Enforcement

In last week's Cabinet News and Views, we examined the U.S. regulators' approach to the digital asset space, with a focus on the assertion of jurisdiction by the CFTC, the SEC, prudential regulators, state executive and...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Market Trading Trends: Expect Regulatory Guidance to Accelerate

Gamification tactics and investment advice from social media influencers and chat rooms are just a couple of the disruptive technologies and behaviors that are capturing the attention of regulators in 2021 and forcing them to...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 3.1.2021 | Top Story: Walmart Poaches Goldman Bankers in Bid to Bolster Fintech Venture

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Walmart’s recent move to hire away a “pair of senior Goldman Sachs bankers” to head up the retailer’s new fintech startup (a collaboration with Ribbit Capital) has tongues wagging about the company’s ambitions to shove its...more

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Securities and markets regulatory news, March 2021

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UK CCPs: HM Treasury consults on expanded resolution regime - HM Treasury is consulting on an expanded resolution regime for central counterparties (CCPs). HM Treasury intends to revise and expand the UK CCP resolution...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 2.22.2021 | Top Story: Boeing Grounds Some 777 Models After Engine Explosion on United Flight

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Boeing needs another aircraft problem like a hole in the head, but that’s just what it got after a right-engine explosion on one of its 777-200 models that had just left Denver en route to Hawaii. ...more

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Short selling bans and market restrictions – Considerations for investors

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A number of regulators across the globe responded to recent market volatility by introducing temporary short selling bans and/or market restrictions. Such bans have since expired as of 18 May 2020. Other regulators (including...more

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Stonk Trading’s Not a Game

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During the height of the GameStop (NYSE: GME) mania, Slate author Jordan Weissman explained that “[A]t a moment that the markets are being overrun, for better or worse, by posters who’ve basically dedicated themselves to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

GameStop and Compliance: Part 5 – Lessons Learned

I think the GameStop phenomenon portends a seismic shift in many areas. It may well be a turning point in markets and investments. Where it will be going, I do not think anyone knows right now but everyone needs to be...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

GameStop and Compliance: Part 3 – The Squeeze

I think the GameStop phenomenon portends a seismic shift in many areas. It may well be a turning point in markets and investments. Where it will be going, I do not think anyone knows right now but everyone needs to be...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

When Davids on Social Media Topple the Goliath of Wall Street

Social media started out as a way to connect with old friends and distant relatives. Not anymore. Now, social media is being weaponized by everyday people to topple the giants of Wall Street. Recently, posters on Reddit and...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 1.28.2021 | Top Story: GameStop’s Wild Ride Continues, Pummeling Hedge Funds Along the Way

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GameStop’s continuing surge this week has gone from something of a lark to a collective small-trader effort to stick it to Wall Street hedge funds and institutionalists, with share-price fundamentals discarded entirely in...more

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Decoding Derivatives - Q1 2020

The McClatchy Company (MNI) Mellows Out - For a name on which $380 million was written at the time of the credit event and that had attracted some publicity in 2018, the scarcity of unsecured bonds (only around $15...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.18.2020 | Top Story: Markets Gain on Stimulus Promise as Volatility Rules

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Volatility’s the name of the game these days on Wall Street. So what was down on Monday was up (a bit, at least) yesterday, although the basics of the situation haven’t improved at all....more

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