U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Articles

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently charged a California-based attorney with defrauding investors seeking to participate in the EB-5 immigrant investor program, stealing their...
The SEC has charged three Chinese traders with fraudulently trading on hacked, nonpublic, market-moving information stolen from two prominent New York-based law firms.
The SEC has announced that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has agreed to pay over $519 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by paying bribes to foreign...
The SEC has charged two men behind a phony day-trading firm with pocketing more than $1 million in deposits from hundreds of defrauded investors worldwide.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that a Brazilian-based petrochemical manufacturer whose stock trades in the U.S. markets has agreed to settle charges that it...
The SEC has announced that Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle charges it used trades involving customer cash to lower the firm’s borrowing costs in violation of the...
The SEC has announced that an Oklahoma-based oil-and-gas company has agreed to settle charges that it used illegal separation agreements and retaliated against a whistleblower.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that a technology company has agreed to pay a penalty of $180,000 to settle charges involving its severance agreements that...
The SEC has charged the founder of Platinum Partners and two of its flagship hedge fund advisory firms with conducting a fraudulent scheme to inflate asset values.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that it has settled cease-and-desist proceedings against the CEO of a Utah-based broker-dealer and two registered persons...
The SEC has barred several market participants from the penny stock industry for their roles in various sham initial public offerings of microcap stocks that defrauded investors.
The SEC has announced that Deutsche Bank agreed to settle charges in regards that it misled clients about the performance of a core feature of its automated order router that primarily sent client...
The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently charged two New Jersey-based traders with manipulating more than 2,000 NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded stocks and making over $26 million in...
The SEC has announced an award of more than $900,000 to a whistleblower whose tip allowed the SEC to bring multiple enforcement actions against wrongdoers.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that a San Francisco-based firm has agreed to settle charges that it violated federal securities laws by failing to register...