Defendant concealed his diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Samuel Bankman-Fried with orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX), the crypto trading platform of which he was the CEO and ...
Read More »SEC Charges 11 Individuals in $300 Million Forsage Crypto Pyramid Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 11 individuals for their roles in creating and promoting Forsage, a fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme that raised more than $300 million from millions of retail investors worldwide, including in the United States. Those charged include the four founders of Forsage, who ...
Read More »SEC announced insider trading charges against three software engineers employed at Twilio
Three Twilio company employees along with family and friends charged in $1 million scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against three software engineers employed at Twilio
Read More »SEC Approves BSTX as Newest National Securities Exchange Facility
SEC issued an order approving the creation of BSTX as a trading facility of BOX Exchange. BSTX, a joint venture of tZERO Group, Inc., and BOX Digital Markets LLC will be the first fully-automated, price/time priority execution exchange for trading securities that is both regulated by the SEC and leverages private blockchain technologies.
Read More »SEC Rejected the VanEck Spot Bitcoin ETF
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected the VanEck spot Bitcoin ETF (VanEck Bitcoin Trust) as the company failed to show it is consistent with rules
Read More »Registration of Two Digital Tokens Halted
SEC instituted proceedings against American CryptoFed DAO LLC, a Wyoming-based organization, halting the effectiveness of the company’s registration of two digital tokens as securities.
Read More »SEC Charges Crowdfunding Portal, Issuer, and Related Individuals for Fraudulent Offerings
SEC charged three individuals and one issuer with conducting a fraudulent scheme to sell nearly $2 million of unregistered securities through two crowdfunding offerings.
Read More »Prepared Remarks of Gary Gensler, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Before the American Bar Association Derivatives and Futures Law Committee Virtual Mid-Year Program
Thank you for the kind introduction. It’s good to be back with the American Bar Association’s Derivatives and Futures Law Committee.
Read More »SEC Charges Investment Advisers With Cherry-Picking, Obtains Asset Freeze
SEC announced that it has obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief, and filed fraud charges, against a Miami-based investment professional and two investment firms for engaging in an alleged “cherry-picking” scheme in which they channeled millions of dollars in trading profits to preferred accounts.
Read More »SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze, Charges California Trader with Posting False Stock Tweets
According to the SEC's complaint, which was filed under seal in federal court in the Central District of California on March 2, 2021 and unsealed today, Andrew L. Fassari used the Twitter handle @OCMillionaire to tweet false statements about Arcis Resources Corporation (ARCS)
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