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  • Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson In Support Of Enforcement Action Involving Fraudulent Precious Metals Scheme Targeting Elderly And Retirement-Aged Persons

    Date 23/05/2023

    Last month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Alexander Spellane and two companies he controlled, Fisher Capital LLC and AMS Consulting Solutions LLC, which he collectively operated together as Fisher Capital Group.  Spellane used Fisher Capital Group to engage in a scheme targeting a vulnerable population of mostly elderly and retirement-aged persons throughout the United States, fraudulently persuading them to invest their retirement funds and savings in gold and silver coins at grossly inflated prices—sometimes double or event triple his cost.  As a result, Spellane’s victims invested more than $30 million in coins at inflated values—suffering significant losses.

  • SEC Shuts Down WeedGenics $60 Million Cannabis Offering Fraud

    Date 23/05/2023

    The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency order to halt an alleged ongoing offering fraud and Ponzi-like scheme by Integrated National Resources Inc. (INR), which does business as WeedGenics, and its owners, Rolf Max Hirschmann and Patrick Earl Williams, who have raised more than $60 million from investors to expand their cannabis operations, but have instead used the majority of funds to make $16.2 million in Ponzi-like payments and to enrich themselves.

  • US Acting Comptroller Of The Currency Discusses Financial Inclusion

    Date 23/05/2023

    Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu today discussed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) commitment to a fair and inclusive financial system in remarks at the Bank On National Conference.

  • FSB Europe Group Discusses Risks To Financial Stability, Including Recent Banking Sector Stress, DeFi And Climate Change

    Date 23/05/2023

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group for Europe met today in London. The group discussed global and regional financial market developments and financial stability risks arising from decentralised finance (DeFi) and from climate change.

  • CME Group: Open Interest Across WTI-Linked Futures Surpasses 500,000 As Global Significance Of U.S. Oil Grows

    Date 23/05/2023

    CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that open interest across its suite of WTI-linked futures, which include WTI Houston (HTT), WTI Midland (WTT) and Mars (YV) spread futures contracts, surpassed 500,000 contracts on Friday, May 19, 2023. Average daily open interest in the Argus-settled contracts has also increased 49% year-to-date as the inclusion of U.S. oil into the Dated Brent pricing mechanism begins.