Sentences with phrase «by insider trading»

For many weeks, the majority of South Korean investors in both the traditional finance sector and cryptocurrency market have been outraged by insider trading initiated by government officials working for the South Korea Financial Services Commission.

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Cho, who joined DRW in 2016, has pushed the unit to new heights, frequently conducting trades in the $ 1 million to $ 5 million range and expanding into new markets such as Singapore, first reported by Business Insider.

Its backers are financial markets insiders who have become frustrated by the state of affairs today and want to see more competition in securities trading.

It said bitcoin's bubbles were created by a combination of hype, mystery, decentralisation and possible insider trading, suggesting that a small group of bitcoin owners were speculating on its price and manipulating general investors.

Former Hanlong Mining boss Hui Xiao has been handed an eight - year prison sentence by a Sydney court for insider trading with regards to two Perth resources companies.

The appeal follows ramped - up efforts by U.S. authorities to crack down on insider trading, with the SEC announcing charges against more than 550 people in the past six years.

A wave of insider trading cases brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors, meanwhile, resulted in Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's conviction in 2011 and a $ 1.8 billion settlement and plea deal in 2013 with hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP.

«SAC has never encouraged, promoted or tolerated insider trading and takes its compliance and management obligations serioulsy,» the firm said in a statement read by CNBC's Kayla Tausche.

The indictment states that SAC has been charged «with criminal responsibility for insider trading offenses committed by numerous employees and made possible by institutional practices that encouraged the widespread solicitation and use of illegal inside information.»

Business Insider recently looked at each state's biggest international trading partners as measured by value of goods exported and imported in 2016.

His words were first reported by trade magazine Broadcast, but Business Insider has also seen a transcript of his message.

Jay Clayton, the attorney tapped last year by President Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, argued that the agency doesn't need Congress» help in prosecuting insider trading.

In the book, Schweizer details what can only be described as insider trading by many members of Congress during the financial crisis.

Billionaire cleared on insider trading charges brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

And now the US is reeling from a sweeping insider trading investigation by the FBI.

According to a report by the Senate minority staff of the Committee on Finance and the Committee of the Judiciary, then SEC Associate Director of Enforcement Paul Berger was instrumental in the firing of SEC Senior Counsel Gary Aguirre, who wanted to question Mack about the insider trading matter.

Research by Morgan Stanley bank published in a Business Insider report on Sunday, April 29, 2018, concludes that Malta now accounts for the largest proportion of cryptocurrency trading in the world by volume, followed by Belize.

In any event, assuming full disclosure, they become shareholders knowing that they will have lower voting rights than the insiders and having accepted as adequate whatever trade - off is offered by the firm in recompense.

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

On the other hand, back in April, after reading that same language, Allergan's lawyers said that Pershing and Valeant «took express pains to sidestep Rule 14e - 3 which outlaws insider - trading in connection with a tender offer, by styling themselves as co-bidders and not (yet) proceeding towards a tender offer.»

The SEC database for company filings — including quarterly and annual reports, registration statements for IPOs and other offerings, insider trading reports, and proxy materials SEC records and documents, can be obtained in electronic form by using the online SEC search feature.

Today Allergan upped the entertainment factor by suing Valeant and Pershing Square for insider trading.

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CPALL Stock Exchange of Thailand — April 21, 2016 In December, 2015, Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC») issued fines totalling THB 34 million against six individuals for insider trading by unfairly using inside information to purchase shares of Siam Makro Public Company Limited (SET: MAKRO)(«Makro») just before CP ALL announced its acquisition plan of Makro in April 2013.

The court found that a stock trading plan established by the company's chairman, pursuant to which a broker, rather than the chairman himself, would liquidate a portion of the chairman's stock in the company, did not preclude potential liability for insider trading.

Nomura raked in $ 726.3 million in revenue from investment banking across the region, more than any other bank, despite being penalized by Japanese regulators for its involvement in an insider trading scandal in 2012.

Bonds News, a quarterly subscription - only publication, aims to minimize the risks and maximize the profits associated with bond trading by providing the latest news, insider insights, technological advancements concerning bonds of all types, from corporate to government.

The practice has long been somewhat controversial, but has been catapulted to the forefront by a recent book that alleges it is, in effect, insider - trading.

Where once the Bitcoin Core [1] community believed in unregulated markets, they now call for Coinbase to be regulated and punished by the US government for bogus claims of «insider trading» during their listing of Bitcoin Cash.

This article is the third in a three - part series discussing practical insights from a recent presentation on insider trading and compliance priorities by K&L Gates partners Michael W. McGrath, Carolyn A. Jayne and Nicholas S. Hodge.

He acknowledged obstructing justice by creating a false cover story to blame his brother Bing Wang, who resides in rural China, for the insider trading and ownership of the Unicorn account.

Most recently, prosecutors filed insider trading charges against seven individuals over trades based on non-public information they were given by Daniel Rivas, a Bank of America employee.

Eight years have passed since the FBI's insider trading investigation into Galleon Group, but the subject remains a concern in the minds of alternative investment industry participants, according to a new survey by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable.

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Boards of directors hoping for some sort of clarity about share - trading windows for insiders and the appropriate blackout periods before the release of price - sensitive information will be sorely disappointed by the latest announcement from the corporate regulator.

If Phil Mickelson were bothered by suggestions that he had anything to do with insider - trading allegations related to Clorox and involving sports gambler Billy Walters and billionaire investor Carl Icahn, he did not show it when he made birdie on his first hole of this week's U.S. Open at Pinehurst.

How do Western New Yorkers feel about Rep. Collins possibly breaking federal law by engaging in insider trading?»

He noted Towns, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was noncommittal when asked by Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, to subpoena records from the «Friends of Angelo» loan program through which the former CEO of Countrywide Financial charged with fraud and insider trading by the SEC provided sweetheart mortgages to Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and others.

In addition to sexual harassment issues, Gillibrand touted her work securing health care for first responders to the Sept. 11 attacks, prohibiting insider trading by members of Congress, and winning a Superfund designation for Hoosick Falls, a Rensselaer County village whose water supply was contaminated by a factory that produced nonstick coatings.

The statement finished by calling Collins «corrupt» and the move the «ultimate insider trading scam.»

The justices let stand a decision by the federal appeals court in New York last year that threw out insider trading convictions of two high - profile hedge fund managers.

For the monitorship of SAC Capital Advisors, which had reached an insider trading settlement in 2014, Schwartz was chosen by the company itself, and approved by an anonymous panel of federal prosecutors, who often do not disclose the names of those picked, he wrote.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has launched an investigation into MTN for «possible insider trading» before the company announced it had been hit by the fine.

Severely hampered in his pursuit of insider trading on Wall Street by a 2014 court case, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara showed financial pros he still has game, announcing insider - trading charges against Las Vegas high roller Billy Walters and former Dean Foods Chairman Tom Davis.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara applauded a new Supreme Court decision on insider trading, after the court found that a trading tip «gift» can be used by a secondary person and still be considered an illegal use of that information for personal benefit.

Michael Kimelman, who served two years in prison for insider trading after getting caught in a web of prosecutions by Bharara, accuses the former U.S. attorney of only caring about «brownie points» and «easy headlines.»

Shapiro, of law firm Shapiro Arato, helped get hedge - fund manager Anthony Chiasson's insider - trading conviction tossed by a Manhattan federal appeals court in December 2014.

Slaughter was the chief force behind a 2012 law to ban insider stock trading based on congressional knowledge and require disclosure of market activities by lawmakers.

Severely hampered in his pursuit of insider trading on Wall Street by a 2014 court case, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara on Thursday showed financial pros he still has game.

We can not afford to give up our fight for more accountability in our political system by ending insider trading in Congress and persuading the Supreme Court to adopt the official Code of Conduct.