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Date 08/04/2014
SEC, Criminal Authorities Halt Florida-Based Ponzi Scheme Targeting Investors Through YouTube Videos
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against the operators of a South Florida-based Ponzi scheme targeting investors through YouTube videos and selling them investments in a product called virtual concierge machines (VCMs) that would purportedly generate guaranteed returns of 300 to 500 percent in four years.
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Date 08/04/2014
U.S.A. Attorney General Eric Holder Testifies Before The U.S. House Committee On The Judiciary - Contending With New And Emerging Technology, Including Virtual Currencies Such As Bitcoin
Chairman [Bob] Goodlatte, Ranking Member [John] Conyers, and Members of the Committee: thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the recent achievements of the U.S. Department of Justice; to join you in advancing our ongoing priorities; and to stress, on behalf of my hardworking colleagues in Department offices around the world, our continued commitment to the cause of justice and the missions we share: securing our nation and protecting the American people.
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Date 08/04/2014
SEC Charges CVS With Misleading Investors And Committing Accounting Violations
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged CVS Caremark Corp. with misleading investors about significant financial setbacks and using improper accounting that artificially boosted its financial performance.
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Date 08/04/2014
Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia - Fiscal Year 2013 Report To Congress On The Commission’s Whistleblower Program And Customer Education Initiatives
I believe the Commission has missed a great opportunity to develop a much more proactive strategy to protect customers with the funds established by the Dodd-Frank Act. I would like to see the Commission develop a more comprehensive and technologically-savvy customer protection program as part of its pending strategic plan.
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Date 08/04/2014
FIA Launches SEF Tracker To Measure Swap Trading Activity
FIA today is launching SEF Tracker, a periodic report on trading activity taking place on swap execution facilities. FIA has developed this report to provide the public with a better understanding of these new venues for the trading of over-the-counter derivatives.
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Date 08/04/2014
CFTC Orders California, Florida, And Nevada Companies And Their Owners To Pay More Than $940,000 In Restitution To Defrauded Customers For Offering Illegal, Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions - California Resident Charles Victoria And His Companies PGS Capital Wealth Management And PGS Capital Credit, Inc., And Florida Resident Frank O. Davies And His Company Rockwell Asset Management, Inc. Charged In Separate CFTC Orders
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and settled charges against three companies and their owners (collectively, Respondents) for engaging in illegal, off-exchange precious metals transactions, and requires that the Respondents jointly pay more than $940,000 in restitution to their defrauded precious metals customers.
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Date 08/04/2014
TheCityUK Puts Global Expansion Of Trade In Financial And Related Professional Services At Top Of WTO London Agenda
As the WTO’s Director General, Roberto Azevedo, meets international business leaders in London today (Tuesday 8 April), TheCityUK welcomes the new emphasis being given to tackling three pressing trade themes in the drive to reduce international trade barriers and promote global growth:
- a forward WTO work programme that gives services full and equal weight with goods and agriculture;
- express recognition by the international community of the complementary contributions of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral approaches to global market-opening; and
- implementation by WTO's members of the Bali trade facilitation package - potentially worth US$1trillion to the world economy.
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Date 08/04/2014
EGX Issued A Decision To Start Working With The Regulations For ETFs And Market Maker
The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) issued an executive decision to start applying the regulations for both ETFs and market maker activity. The new regulations for market maker stressed on its providing an endorsement stating separation between the activities of market-making and brokerage activity. It also defined the technical infrastructure for information systems that should be applied by the market maker to connect with EGX. The regulations also required a market maker to take all measures to ensure liquidity on documents in circulation. New restrictions has been put for borrowed stocks of the index or certificates in accordance with the clearing system and settlement certificates of index funds prepared.
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Date 08/04/2014
Financial Stability Board Publishes Reports On Implementation Of OTC Derivatives Market Reforms
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today the seventh of the FSB’s semi-annual progress reports on implementation of OTC derivatives market reforms.
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Date 08/04/2014
NASAA And The SEC: Presenting A United Front To Protect Investors, SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, North American Securities Administrators Association, Annual NASAA/SEC 19(d) Conference, Washington, D.C., April 8, 2014
Good morning. Thank you for that kind introduction. I have been NASAA’s liaison since I was asked by NASAA to take on that role early in my tenure at the SEC, and it is truly a pleasure to continue our dialogue with my fifth appearance here at the 19(d) conference. This conference, as required by Section 19(d) of the Securities Act, is held jointly by the North American Securities Administrators Association (“NASAA”) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”). Before I begin my remarks, however, let me issue the standard disclaimer that the views I express today are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SEC, my fellow Commissioners, or members of the staff.
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