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Son of forex fraudster to pay over dad's forex ponzi scheme
- A Texas race car driver whose career was subsidized by his imprisoned father's $10.9 million Ponzi scheme agreed to give up $322,000 in ill-gotten gains on Tuesday in a suit brought by securities regulators over the scam.
Sunday, 02/10/2011 | 17:09 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
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.
Wednesday, 28/09/2011 | 07:26 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Belarus's domestic FX Trading on the Rise
- Belarus has been a key player in the Eastern European FX markets, however due to government and international restrictions locals have found it difficult to deposit and withdraw funds with US and European brokers.
Monday, 26/09/2011 | 05:52 GMT by
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.
Friday, 23/09/2011 | 03:56 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
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.
Wednesday, 21/09/2011 | 17:12 GMT by
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.
Wednesday, 14/09/2011 | 05:19 GMT by
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.
Monday, 12/09/2011 | 12:43 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC Charges Jeffrey Liskov and EagleEye Asset Management with Committing a $3 Million Forex Fraud
Friday, 09/09/2011 | 04:07 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC sues 11 more firms for accepting US retail forex clients
Thursday, 08/09/2011 | 17:56 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
CFTC fines fraudulent FX Broker
- US regulator; Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and simultaneously settled charges that Roy Scarboro, Jr of Archdale, NC, fraudulently solicited approximately $713,000 from customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency (forex).
Monday, 05/09/2011 | 10:39 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
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.
Tuesday, 23/08/2011 | 06:37 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
Turkish Regulator CMB provides update on New FX Regulation
Monday, 22/08/2011 | 13:33 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
RBI plans to ease remittance and outside investments
Thursday, 18/08/2011 | 10:35 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Amendments to NFA's Forex Requirements Including NFA's Jurisdiction Over Members Engaging in Forex Activities
- Basically NFA here extends its grip on more retail forex market participants than now. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently approved a number of amendments to NFA Requirements that govern the retail forex activities of NFA Members. These amendments to NFA Bylaws 301 and 306, NFA Compliance Rules 2-10, 2-36 and 2-39, Code of Arbitration Section 1 and Interpretive Notices 9053, 9058 and 9060 will become effective October 1, 2011.
Wednesday, 17/08/2011 | 10:59 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
NFA fines FXCM $2 million for slippage malpractices, FXCM will credit clients back
- Apparently Non Dealing Desk doesn't mean you get the best execution - NFA has just announced that it heavily fined FXCM for slippage malpractices. FXCM will pay $2 million directly to NFA and will compensate all customers who suffered from this practice since June 2008. The details of this case are not much different from the similar fine of $459k which NFA imposed on Gain Capital for using the Virtual Dealing plugin and similar slippage settings.
Saturday, 13/08/2011 | 17:14 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
US court sues Bank of New York FX - Misleading Pricing
Friday, 12/08/2011 | 06:50 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
CFTC Charges Blue Sky Capital Management and Gregory Schneider with Making False Statements to the NFA
Friday, 12/08/2011 | 05:54 GMT by
Michael Greenberg
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