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This week the SEC has approved whistleblower awards totaling more than $5.1 million

Whistleblower Alert! This week the SEC has approved whistleblower awards totaling more than $6.3 million--meaning the fines levied from these tips ranged from $21-$63 million.

This week, the SEC awarded multiple whistleblower awards totaling more than $6.3 million. The Whistleblower Program was created by Congress to provide monetary incentives for individuals to come forward and report possible violations of federal securities laws to the SEC. Under the program, eligible whistleblowers are entitled to an

Korea's FSC abolishing the need for 'investment registration certificates'

Do you like how Korea is cracking down on illegal shorting? Good news! Korea is improving market access for foreign investors by abolishing the need for 'investment registration certificates'.

Have you been reading about how Korea extended its short sale ban to March 2025 and is taking additional steps to prevent illegal trading activities and thought it would be awesome to be in the Korean markets? Good news! Today, Korea's Financial Service Commission (FSC) is improving market

Kepler overstated its trade volume in approximately 377,000 instances, by approximately 2.1 billion shares.

From December 2016 to October 2022, Kepler Capital Markets overstated its trade volume in approximately 377,000 instances, by approximately 2.1 billion shares. Penalty? Without admitting to the findings, a censure and $475k fine.

Kepler overstated its advertised trading volume: Penalty?: How could this have impacted GameStop?: Inflated trading volumes can mislead the market as a whole about the liquidity and demand for a stock, potentially influencing trading decisions and stock prices unfairly. My understanding is this creates a false impression of market activity,

SEC Chair Gary Gensler

SEC Chair Gary Gensler: "looking forward, it raises the question as to whether further shortening beyond T+1 may be appropriate."

SEC Chair Gary Gensler highlighted the benefits of shortening the settlement cycle for securities transactions from two days (T+2) to one day (T+1) during his speech at a U.K. Conference. Gensler calls out this change, implemented smoothly in the U.S. last month, aligns the settlement timeline

CFTC Awards Over $8 Million to Whistleblower

CFTC Awards Over $8 Million to Whistleblower who "helped the CFTC establish that one or more derivatives market participants deceived clients about key aspects of trades."

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it awarded over $8 million toa whistleblower who provided significant information and assistance that led the CFTC and other agencies to bring multiple enforcement actions. The whistleblower helped the CFTC establish that one or more derivatives market participants deceived clients about key aspects

Today the Fed held a CLOSED board meeting to discuss an update on bank stress tests

Reminder: Today, as it was determined that the public interest did not require opening the meeting, the Fed held a CLOSED board meeting to discuss an update on bank stress tests set to be released to the public on 6/26/24.

Background: Last week, the Fed announced that results from its annual bank stress tests will be released on Wednesday, June 26, at 4:30 p.m. EDT. This year, 32 banks with $100 billion or more in total assets are subject to the stress tests. Additionally, aggregate results from the

2023:Q4 hedge fund liabilities hit $9,131.36 billion

In 2023:Q4 hedge fund liabilities hit $9,131.36 billion (the highest since 2022:Q1) up $333.87 billion from $8,797.49 billion in 2023:Q3.

Today the Fed released Enhanced Financial Account data, which provided various updated insights. For this post I am reviewing the updated hedge fund data for 2023:Q4. In 2023:Q4 hedge fund liabilities hit $9,131.36 billion (the highest since 2022:Q1) up $333.87 billion from $8,797.