Blackbaud Inc., a South Carolina-based public company that provides donor data management software to non-profit organizations, has agreed to pay a $3 million civil penalty to settle charges over misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers. The SEC announced the settlement on March 9, […]
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Rio Tinto Pays $15 Million Penalty for Foreign Corrupt Practices Violation in Guinea
Rio Tinto, a global mining and metals company, has agreed to pay a $15 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The violation is related to a bribery scheme involving a consultant in Guinea. The Hiring of a Consultant […]
SEC Investor Advisory Committee to Discuss the Growth of Private Markets, Oversight of Investment Advisers, and Open-End Fund Liquidity Risk Management at March 2nd Meeting
Feb. 24, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee will hold a virtual public meeting on March 2 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The meeting will be webcast on the SEC website. The committee will host three panels to discuss: Growth of Private Markets relative to the Public […]
SEC Charges 8 in Connection with $45 Million Crypto Fraud
Jan. 4, 2023 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott, AEO Publishing Inc, Banner Co-Op, Inc, and BannersGo, LLC for their involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme named CoinDeal that raised more than $45 million from sales of unregistered securities […]
TradeZero America Settles SEC Case Re: Meme Stock Trading Halts
Washington D.C., May 24, 2022 — TradeZero America Inc., and its co-founder, Daniel Pipitone settled SEC charges that it falsely stated to the firm’s customers that they didn’t restrict the customers’ purchases of meme stocks when in fact they did. In late January 2021, many brokers restricted investors’ ability to […]
SEC Charges Firms in Connection with Sales of Complex Exchange-Traded Products
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled actions against three investment advisory firms and two dually-registered broker-dealer and advisory firms for violations that related to unsuitable sales of complex exchange-traded products to… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & Cox at 212-509-6544. […]
Mike Willis Named Associate Director in Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has named Mike Willis as an Associate Director in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA). Mr. Willis will lead DERA’s newly created Office of Data Science and Innovation, which… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? […]
SEC Publishes Notice of German Substituted Compliance Application and Proposed Order
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to publish a notice of a substituted compliance application by Germany’s Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) as well as a proposed order that would conditionally provide substituted… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & Cox at 212-509-6544. […]
SEC Awards More Than $3.6 Million and $750,000 in Separate Whistleblower Awards
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced two separate whistleblower awards for total payments of over $4.3 million. In the first order, the Commission awarded a whistleblower over $3.6 million for providing important information that… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & Cox […]
SEC Issues Warning to Broker-Dealers on Borrowing from Fully Paid Lending Programs
The SEC Division of Trading and Markets issued a warning letter to broker-dealers operating programs in which they borrow fully paid margin securities from their customers. https://www.findknowdo.com/news/10/23/2020/sec-issues-warning-broker-dealers-borrowing-fully-paid-lending-programs