Sentences with phrase «using false marketing»

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

«The same false assumptions that underestimates stock - market risk, mis - price options, build bad portfolios, and generally misconstrue the financial world are also built into the standard risk software used by many of the world's banks.

The use by the respondents of the aforesaid false, misleading and deceptive statements, representations and practices has had, and now has, the capacity and tendency to mislead members of the public into the erroneous and mistaken belief that said statements and representations were and are true and into the investment of substantial sums of money to participate in the respondents» multilevel marketing program and the purchase of substantial quantities of respondents» products by reason of said erroneous and mistaken belief.

While interesting and instructive, the case should not provide any false sense of comfort to lenders and distressed debt participants in the burgeoning world of middle - market financing using unitranche structures.

Do widely used charts of equity and bond market performance inculcate harmfully false beliefs among investors?

The CMIM industry also continued growing and marketing their products for profit using false health claims.

Even the most accurate test on the market could give you a false negative if you use it too early or incorrectly.

Meanwhile the influence of neuroscience on education continues to mushroom, thanks to «opportunistic marketing» and promises that can not be kept and even, in one prominent case, the fraudulent use of misleading false - color images of brain scans.

There has to be some legal recourse for using funds in other than marketed ways, and that's what they've done here: used funds solicited for the production of a Wii U game to develop an xbox / playstaion game... False advertising at the very least.

Teacher Match and Hanover Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

The lenders are adopting a code of conduct that bans a variety of marketing practices, such as using logos or seals that look like federal emblems, providing incentives to induce students to borrow from the lender (e.g., gift cards, iPods, prizes and sweepstakes), providing false rebate checks, paying students referral fees to encourage friends to borrow, advertising interest rates and discounts that few borrowers will realize (including using such rates and loan terms in repayment examples and examples illustrating loan costs), misrepresenting the advantages of private loans over federal loans.

The downside to using WMA is the resulting average line may be «choppier» than a simple moving average, which could make it more difficult to discern a market trend from a fluctuation and send a false trade signal.

These false - breaks are huge pieces of evidence for impending market direction, and we need to learn to use them to our advantage instead of becoming their victim.

Be careful, though: Using one may break the rules that your carrier has set out for you and using a false address on a grey market plan could be fUsing one may break the rules that your carrier has set out for you and using a false address on a grey market plan could be fusing a false address on a grey market plan could be fraud.

The Competition Bureau says Volkswagen and its affiliate Audi Canada have also agreed to pay an additional $ 15 million for false or misleading marketing claims used to promote certain vehicles with 2.0 - litre diesel engines.

Of course Sony could be using false scarcity marketing trick in hopes 2017 PSVR will be its breakout year and drive up demand.

The responses weren't adequate for Sterling, however, not just because Grosso used false equivalencies to established methods of price flexibility and indirectly dismissed Sterling and others» concerns about the industry but because it didn't address all of Sterling's questions, namely how the service is being responsibly implemented, if users are put off when they learn they may be paying more for the same item, about the risk of saturating the mobile gaming market, and whether or not the company was approached by developers making larger games for console and PC.

The group exhibition Blinding Pleasures, curated by Filippo Lorenzin, will study the dangers and potentials of a conscious use of the mechanisms behind the False Consensus effect and its marketing - driven son, the so - called «Filter Bubble».

The grid austerity that green groups are preaching under the guise of «efficiency» is a false economy and a wrong turn; encouraging more electricity use will help revive depressed markets and speed the transition to sustainable energy.

It acknowledges that we need to fix the economic system, not destroy it, and it rejects the false duality between morality and markets, encouraging instead the development of moral markets that are well - structured, well - run, and well - regulated — and that every country is free to use or not use.

Mirena was introduced to market in 2000, but in 2009, the FDA warned its manufacturer, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, that Mirena advertising «presents unsubstantiated claims, minimizes the risks of using Mirena, and includes false or misleading presentations regarding Mirena».

Some landlords have used these provisions to evict tenants based on false pretences in order to circumvent rent control laws and re-rent the premises at a higher market rent.

the big giant's LED light bulb marketing is just a big hype (known as marketing gimmicks)... the claim of 60w equivalent is just ridiculous and even 2 9w LED bulbs are nowhere near the light intensity of 60w tube light, so these companies shoud be sued for claiming these false margins, i can provide photo comparisons if demanded... plus these led bulbs have a more failure rate as one has already failed on me recently (the expensive philips) even it wasnt used much.

The SEC also claims that Centra's ICO used paid endorsements from the likes of Mayweather and DJ Khaled, a music producer famous for his 2010 hit All I Do Is Win, to attract unwitting investors, and created false marketing material which included the names of fictional executives.

There are many faces of fraud in the insurance market - using stolen identities to obtain a new policy - or just as troubling, an account takeover to make a false claim or change payee information to receive claim funds.

He also took a look at the site and marketing material, noting that it «makes use of affiliate links to spread quickly with potential false testimonials and reviews» and «uses colorful, exaggerated language.

It is my sincerest hope that the EREB (ERA) new board will clarify openly and honestly to all Edmontonians how the 2015 sales data it released resulted in home buyers using housing market information that provided a false representation of the Edmonton market.