The Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has been criticized for approving a $50 million rebate to FINRA members rather than distributing the windfall to investors who have won arbitration awards against members of the self-regulatory organization (SRO) but have not been paid. The organization crying foul is the Public Investors… Read More >>
Ex-Goldman Sachs MD Sent to Prison via 1MDB Scandal
The wheels of justice in the U.S. appear to be a little rusty, but they still run, and every once in a while, they remind us of a major scandal or two. This is proving to be the case for Tim Leissner, a former chairman and participating managing director (MD) for Southeast Asia at Goldman… Read More >>
Is the SEC Defanging or Protecting the CAT?
Is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) undercutting or protecting the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) through a new exemption that would allow “natural persons” to sidestep supplying “certain personally identifiable information (PII)” such as names, addresses, and years of birth? CAT is an ambitious and controversial big data, U.S. securities transaction monitoring project that has… Read More >>
Fenergo Moves Into Energy & Commodities Sectors
Fenergo, a provider of know your customer (KYC) management services, has begun offering its client and supply chain onboarding support to energy and commodities firms that want to improve operational efficiencies, data management, and regulatory obligations, officials say. Some of Fenergo’s clients are already “some of the largest energy and commodities firms,” officials say. “Historically… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Applies Generative A.I. to New Solutions
NICE Actimize, a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions, has embraced generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) for three new solutions that target financial crime in ways intended to help overwhelmed financial crime and fraud teams at financial services firms, officials say. Generative A.I. are algorithms “that can be used to create new content, including… Read More >>
Key Senators Want to Tax Crypto Brokers Now
The chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs and six other Democratic senators have sent a joint letter to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Daniel Werfel calling on their agencies to “swiftly implement their recently proposed tax reporting requirements… Read More >>
Financial Crime Fighting’s Price Tag Hits $206B
Financial crimes cost banks and other financial services institutions big bucks. This means that complying with the rules and processes meant to deter those financial crimes costs big bucks too. Makes sense, right? Now, thanks to our friends at LexisNexis and Forrester Research, we have a snapshot of the actual numbers. According to the report “True Cost… Read More >>
UBS Fined $387M for Credit Suisse’s Archegos Chapter
UBS Group is paying $387 million in fines to the U.S. Federal Reserve System and the U.K.’s Prudential Regulation Authority and finalizing proceedings with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) — in an effort to close the Archegos Capital Management chapter in the history of Credit Suisse, now a subsidiary of its former Swiss… Read More >>
SEC & Ex-Coinbase Manager Settle Insider Trading Case
Ishan Wahi, a former product manager at U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global and his brother, Nikhil Wahi, have settled civil charges with the SEC in a case of insider trading in an age of emerging cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Early in May, in a separate criminal legal action, Ishan Wahi was sentenced to two years in… Read More >>
NYDFS Bolsters Crypto Fraud Monitoring Tools & Other News
NYDFS Redoubles Crypto Fraud Detection Efforts The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has improved its cryptocurrency fraud detection of New York State-regulated entities via “new insider trading and market manipulation risk monitoring tools,” according to Adrienne A. Harris, superintendent for the NY DFS. The new monitoring tools will help NY DFS detect… Read More >>
