Tag Archives: Regulation
CFTC just released a short statement where it taps itself on the shoulder being proud that all FCMs that were tested (14 of the largest ones) came through ok during some tests it made. This in a way reminds me …
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FXCM moved fast to establish a Canadian offering to be able to attract former MF Global’s Canadian clients. FXCM which offered its Trading Station II platform through MF Global Canada now partnered with Friedberg Direct forming the FXCM Canada joint …
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CFTC just published its decision in a case of Robert West vs. Gain Capital and Glenn Stevens ordering Gain to pay West $10,000 for lost profits. The whole case is a fascinating read of how a regulated forex broker handles a complete novice in the forex market and how this can sometime backfire
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CFTC to introduce a rule on investment of customer funds following MF Global's fiasco
6
2011
So it only takes half a billion dollars in customer funds to disappear before CFTC takes an action aimed at large FCMs. In the wake of MF Global’s fiasco CFTC has finally decided to reintroduce a rule that will limit the investment of customer funds to many instruments thus ‘enhancing customer protection’
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NFA is doing an amazingly effective job at spitting in the well it drinks from. In fact NFA behaves not as a regulator but as a controlling shareholder of its members – as it basically does whatever it wants when it comes to requirements and ‘membership’ fees. NFA just declared a new ‘dividend’ for itself by aggressively raising membership fees which for some strange reason will now be in the region of 2% of forex broker’s gross (!) revenue instead of being a flat yearly fee like up until now. To the best of my knowledge NFA is the only forex dictator regulator charging percentage of volume and/or revenue instead of just charging same membership fee from everyone.
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Federal Court Orders Forex Dealer Jacob Juma Omukwe to Pay over $2.6 Million for Forex Scheme
23
2011
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a supplemental consent order requiring defendants Jacob Juma Omukwe and his companies, JadeFX, LTD (JadeFX) and Jade Investments Group, LLC (Jade), jointly and severally to pay over $2.6 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties to settle a CFTC anti-fraud enforcement action filed in March 2011.
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NFA files complaint against Tracy Morgan Spaeth charging him with multiple misleading forex practices
23
2011
One of the webinars that Spaeth used to solicit customers promoted a computerized forex trading system, known as Tradestar, that the webinar claimed was almost risk-free and consistently profitable. The Tradestar trading system was developed and/or owned by Trade Star Incorporated, a company controlled by a convicted felon named Robert Mihailovich (Mihailovich), who, in July 2010, was charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with fraudulently soliciting over $30 million from customers for forex and futures investments.
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According to a federal criminal Complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, David R. Lewalski, 47, formerly of Gainesville, FL, and his co-conspirators allegedly solicited money about $30 million from hundreds of investors based on false statements that Lewalski could earn the investors up to 10 percent interest per month by trading on the foreign currency (FOREX) market.
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Foreign-exchange clients of MF Global Canada Co. will get their money at the end of this month after having been excluded from an earlier agreement, said the trustee for the bankrupt brokerage. KPMG Inc., the court-appointed trustee, and RBC Dominion …
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CFTC Charges Nicholas Trimble and His Two Companies with Million Dollar Forex Scheme
9
2011
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil injunctive complaint charging defendants Nicholas Trimble and his companies, Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis, Inc. (Capstone) and Beekeepers Fund Capital Management, LLC (Beekeepers), all of Denver, Colo., with fraudulently soliciting at least $1.1 million from customers to trade foreign currency (forex) through pooled and managed trading accounts using a proprietary forex trading system.
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