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Changes To BOX Rule 7170 Nullification And Adjustment Of Options Transactions Including Obvious Errors

Date 30/06/2022

Effective July 1, 2022, BOX Exchange, in coordination with all U.S. options exchanges, will update the existing harmonized Obvious Error rules and review procedures as outlined below:
SIFMA Opposes Limitation Of Liability Provisions In CAT Reporter Agreement

Date 30/06/2022

In a comment letter filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SIFMA expressed both its ongoing concerns about the security of investors’ data in the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and its opposition to the efforts of the self-regulatory organizations (SROs) who control and operate the CAT to limit their liability for any breach or misuse of the data.
SEC Charges Empires Consulting Corp. With Fake Trading Scheme - As Scheme Collapsed, Defendants Stopped Investor Withdrawals And Relocated To Brazil

Date 30/06/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against Empires Consulting Corp. (EmpiresX), its founders Emerson Sousa Pires and Flavio Mendes Goncalves, and its head trader Joshua David Nicholas, for a scheme that allegedly raised at least $40 million by luring investors with false claims of one percent daily profits, but instead misappropriated large sums of investors' money for personal uses.
Council Of The EU Presidency And European Parliament - Digital finance: Agreement Reached On European Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA)

Date 30/06/2022

The EU brings crypto-assets, crypto-assets issuers and crypto-asset service providers under a regulatory framework for the first time.
Statement Of Commissioner Kristin Johnson Regarding The CFTC Charging Commodity Pool Operators And A Florida Company With Fraudulent Solicitation Of $41.6 Million

Date 30/06/2022

Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Empires Consulting Corp., a Florida corporation, and three individuals, alleging that they operated a fraudulent scheme to solicit, accept, and pool at least $41.6 million, including at least $14.3 million from over 2,300 individuals in the United States. Defendants’ solicitations were largely via the internet or online, through the company’s website, videos posted on social media platforms, and emails. Defendants initially solicited participants to fund their accounts using cryptocurrencies, including, among others, bitcoin, ether, and tether.

Mark T. Uyeda Sworn In As SEC Commissioner

Date 30/06/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced Mark T. Uyeda has been sworn into office as a Commissioner by Brian Johnson, Assistant Director of the Division of Investment Management's Rulemaking Office. Commissioner Uyeda was nominated by President Biden earlier this year and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 16.
Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson Regarding The CFTC Charging South African Commodity Pool Operator And CEO With $1.7 Billion Fraud Involving Bitcoin

Date 30/06/2022

Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against Cornelius Johannes Steynberg of South Africa and Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI), a South African company, alleging that they operated a fraudulent scheme to solicit, accept, and pool more than $1.7 billion to trade off-exchange, retail foreign currency (forex) on a leveraged, margined and/or financed basis. Defendants engaged in an international fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme via various websites, in addition to social media, to solicit bitcoin from members of the public for participation in their pool. At least 23,000 of the pool participants—most, if not all, of whom were not eligible contract participants—were from the United States.
U.S. Treasury Blocks Over $1 Billion In Suleiman Kerimov Trust - Enforcement Investigation Unearthed Oligarch’s Use Of A Network Of Relatives, Advisers, And Opaque Legal Entities To Invest In The United States

Date 30/06/2022

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced it has issued a Notification of Blocked Property to Heritage Trust, a Delaware-based trust in which OFAC-designated Russian oligarch Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov holds a property interest. As of June 30, 2022, Heritage Trust holds assets valued at over $1 billion. This action ensures that those assets remain blocked and inaccessible to Kerimov.
Goldman Sachs And Charles Schwab Executives Join OCC Board Of Directors

Date 30/06/2022

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced two new members of its Board of Directors: Alicia Crighton, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Faris Matalka, Managing Director at Charles Schwab.
CFTC Orders Interactive Brokers LLC to Pay Over $1 Million for Supervision Failures

Date 30/06/2022

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against Interactive Brokers LLC, a registered futures commission merchant, for failing to diligently supervise its employees’ handling of exchange fees charged to customers. The order requires Interactive Brokers to cease and desist from violating the CFTC regulation addressing supervision, pay $710,828.14 in disgorgement with credit for money paid to affected customers, and pay a $300,000 civil monetary penalty.