The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Manitex International, Inc., a Bridgeview, Illinois manufacturer and distributor of cranes, forklifts and heavy equipment, and three of its former senior executives for two… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-237
Month: September 2020
SEC Charges Former Real Estate Executive With Misappropriating $26 Million in Ponzi Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former president of a Marin, California real estate development and management company with operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme and misappropriating over $26 million from more than 1,300 investors… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-236
SEC Charges Ratings Agency With Internal Controls Failures in Connection With Ratings of CMBS and CLO Combo Notes
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the credit ratings agency Kroll Bond Rating Agency Inc. (KBRA) has agreed to pay more than $2 million to settle separate charges relating to the rating of commercial mortgage-backed securities (… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-235
SEC Charges Unregistered Brokers in Penny Stock Scheme Targeting Seniors
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three Florida residents with fraudulent sales of stock in NIT Enterprises Inc., a South Florida technology company. The SEC previously charged NIT Enterprises, its former CEO, and two SEC-barred… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-234
J.P. Morgan Securities Admits to Manipulative Trading in U.S. Treasuries
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for fraudulently engaging in manipulative trading of U.S. Treasury securities. J.P. Morgan… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-233
McMillan: Imagining the International: Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community
Nesam McMillan (Univ. of Melbourne – School of Social and Political Sciences) has published Imagining the International: Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community (Stanford Univ. Press 2020). Here’s the abstract: International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the…
Covid-19: Isolating older people would be “age based apartheid,” says NHS boss
Segmenting and shielding the oldest and most vulnerable groups of people from covid-19 rather than imposing local or national lockdowns would represent “age based apartheid” and should be rejected,… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/3TdkQScQnkg/bmj.m3788.short
SEC Charges Swedish National with Global Scheme Defrauding Retail Investors, Including Deaf Community Members
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Swedish national living in Thailand with conducting a multi-million dollar online offering fraud that victimized thousands of retail investors worldwide, including hundreds of investors from the Deaf… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-232
Payment aspects of financial inclusion – tools to facilitate the application of the guidance and measure progress
CPMI Press release "Payment aspects of financial inclusion – tools to facilitate the application of the guidance and measure progress", 29 September 2020. Article source: https://www.bis.org/press/p200929.htm
Covid-19: Universities roll out pooled testing of students in bid to keep campuses open
Some UK universities are introducing covid-19 screening programmes using pooled testing to help prevent outbreaks and allow campuses to stay open.The University of Cambridge and the University of… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/XhzWrVISzzg/bmj.m3789.short