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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Bank Of London Appoints Tam Holmes As Co-President & Group Chief Product Office
Date 30/06/2022
The Bank of London, the next-generation technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today announced the appointment of Tam Holmes as its Co-President & Group Chief Product Officer and Member of the Group's Executive Management Committee. As Group Chief Product Officer, Tam is responsible for oversight of the Group's overall customer and product vision, strategy, and innovation.
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CFTC Charges South African Pool Operator And CEO With $1.7 Billion Fraud Involving Bitcoin - This Action Is CFTC’s Largest Fraud Scheme Case Involving Bitcoin
Date 30/06/2022
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, charging Cornelius Johannes Steynberg of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa and Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI), a company organized and operated under the laws of the Republic of South Africa, with fraud and registration violations. Steynberg created and operated, through MTI, a global foreign currency commodity pool that only accepted Bitcoin to purchase a participation in the pool, with a value of over $1,733,838,372. This action is the largest fraudulent scheme involving Bitcoin charged in any CFTC case.
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Canadian Securities Regulators Extend Comment Period On Mineral Disclosure Consultation
Date 30/06/2022
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is extending the comment period for its consultation paper on national standards for disclosing scientific and technical information about mineral projects.
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EBA Publishes Its Final Guidelines On Data Collection Exercises Regarding High Earners
Date 30/06/2022
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final updated Guidelines on the data collection exercise on high earners, which were originally released in 2012 and revised in 2014. The update of the data collection exercises reflects the amended remuneration framework laid down in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), including the introduction of derogations to pay out a part of the variable remuneration in instruments and under deferral arrangements. In addition, the need to update these Guidelines stems from the specific remuneration regime that has been introduced for investment firms and is laid down in the Investment Firms Directive (IFD) and Investment Firms Regulation (IFR).
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NGX, GRI And PRI, Collaborate To Boost Awareness On ESG Data Metrics For Sustainable Investing
Date 30/06/2022
Nigerian Exchange Limited (“NGX” or “the Exchange”), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Africa and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) organized a webinar tagged “Empowering Responsible Investing through Data Metrics and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Integration”, on Wednesday, 29 June 2022.
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