Recently, the SEC announced its largest whistleblower award to date − an expected award of $30-35 million − to be issued to a foreign resident. Notably, the award would have been even larger if the tipster had not unreasonably delayed in reporting the violations.
This award to a foreign resident is of particular interest because
“From this autumn, we will start to see cases adopted by us, under our recalibrated focus on top tier work, coming to trial…we have much in the pipeline.”
David Green CB QC, Director of the SFO, addressing the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime on 2 September 2014
One such case is the SFO’s bribery case,
In a move that should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency issued a proposed rule last week that would expand its oversight, supervision and enforcement jurisdiction to include nonbank automobile finance companies.
Established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
It is always assumed that sentences in the US for any crime are significantly higher than they are in the UK, but nowhere is this more starkly exemplified than in white collar crime. The recent sentence of 9 years in prison for Mathew Martoma for insider trading is the latest proof of the truth of
Welcome to the new McGuireWoods London LLP fraud blog: The Fraud Board, which has taken over from our highly rated Bribery Library site. There are various reasons for the change, but the main rationale is that while the subject of Bribery remains very important in the economic crime landscape, and will continue to feature strongly
In a recent speech to the Practising Law Institute’s Private Equity Forum, Norm Champ, Director of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, discussed the SEC’s increasing attention to the growth in “alternative mutual funds,” or open-end mutual funds that feature investment strategies more typically seen in private funds. Similar to recent speeches and discussions related
Crucially businesses should be confident that reprisals against whistle-blowers are not an issue for them, and that their organisation understands and trusts any whistleblowing policy and procedure they have in place. Deficiencies in these areas may very well lead to a Regulator challenging the overall effectiveness and adequacy of an organisations compliance programme.
It is simply to emphasise that complex City fraud needs the kind of unified approach, expertise and special tools that Roskill advocated and that the SFO has developed.
The average investor does not get very far when trying to buy a bond in today’s municipal and corporate fixed income markets. Some may find it difficult to find the exact bond they want to purchase, while many grow frustrated with the lack of transparency in bond pricing. Contrasted with the equity markets, where information
In a much anticipated decision, on June 4 the Second Circuit vacated District Court Judge Rakoff’s rejection of a consent judgment approving a $285 million settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Citigroup. In 2011, the SEC alleged that Citigroup created and sold mortgage bond investments without disclosing that the people