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Ray White and CRW Management to pay over $19 million in forex fraud case
- Washington, DC - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained federal court consent orders resolving its remaining claims against defendants Ray M. White and CRW Management LP (CRW) and relief defendants Christopher R. White and Hurricane Motorsports, LLC, all of Mansfield, Texas.
CFTC Obtains Default Judgment against Barki LLC in a $38 Million Forex Ponzi Scheme
- Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina entered an order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Barki, LLC of Mint Hill, N.C.
Capital Markets Board of Turkey threatens to sue 32 forex websites - but some of them are not even operational
- Capital Markets Board of Turkey, announced that they are going to file a criminal complaint for the 32 forex websites, which are still active after 31 August 2011 after they have released communiqué.
FXCM ordered to pay $6 million more by the CFTC to settle allegations of failure to monitor and maintain its trading systems
- In total FXCM will pay over $16.2 million to settle NFA and CFTC's charges. This is the continuation of the NFA's fine back in August which charged FXCM with retaining gains derived from positive price slippage; failing to adopt or carry out adequate procedures to ensure the efficient execution of all customer orders; failing to treat all customers equally when giving price adjustments; and failing to adequately investigate suspicious activity in all customers’ accounts. The Complaint charged FXCM and Niv with failing to supervise.
BIS report highlights High Frequency Trading in FX markets
- The Bank of International Settlements has published a report on High Frequency Trading and its impact on the $4 trillion a day FX markets. Data was collated by representatives of major central banks including the ECB and Bank of Canada. The report looked at the Flash Crash and the Yens heavy move on 17th March.
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Adil Siddiqui
CFTC Charges Accounting Firm McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, and Partner David Shane with Failure to Properly Audit One World Capital Group
- It's extremely interesting to see CFTC taking the oversight of its members one step further by going after not only its member firms but even after their auditors - if those failed to do their job. CFTC just charged an accounting firm and one of its partners for failing to properly audit One World Capital Group - a former forex broker which ceased its operations in 2007. This adds to CFTC's aggressive pursuit of even completely foreign firms which it perceives as breaking its rules.
Director of Australian FX Brokerage under spotlight
- Vantage FX's parent firm Efinium's Director is under the spot light with Hong Kong regulators on allegations of stock rigging. Duncan Tak Keung Chui is alleged to have conspired to pump up the price of a Hong Kong-listed company in the days before a capital raising in January 2009.
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Adil Siddiqui
CFD's used for Insider Trading
- Australias financial regulator has been investigating misues of highly leveraged financial trading instruemnts in a potenial takeover bid. THE head of a Chinese firm, his wife and three others are being investigated over claims they used inside knowledge of the group's plans to take over Australian mining companies to make almost $2 million in profits betting on the sharemarket.
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Adil Siddiqui
A new US retail forex broker is born - OptionsXpress registers as an RFED
- As expected OptionXpress has registered as an RFED with the CFTC and will soon become open for retail forex business. XPRESSTRADE, LLC (www.xtfx.com) is capitalized at $22,841,980 and already has $17,720 in retail forex customers obligations. OptionsXpress is the second 'traditional' broker to start offering retail foreign exchange after TradeStation.
CFTC Charges Douglas Elsworth Wilson in Multi-Million Dollar Commodity Futures and Forex Scheme
- Washington, DC - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that on August 18, 2011 a federal court in California entered an order freezing the assets of defendants Douglas Elsworth Wilson of Poway, Calif., and three California companies that he controls and manages, Elsworth Berg Capital Management LLC (EBCM), Elsworth Berg Inc., and Elsworth Berg FX LLC (collectively, Elsworth Berg). The order also prohibits the destruction of their books and records.
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