Insider trading

US charges 8, including 2 Singaporeans in global insider-trading scheme

Federal prosecutors in Boston said the scheme ran from 2016 to 2024 and was led by a former Merrill Lynch banker in France

Ang has paid MAS the civil penalty without court action.

MAS imposes S$137,000 penalty on Alpha Energy’s ex-managing director for insider trading

He has also given a voluntary undertaking not to be a director or be involved in the management of a company for two years

A Tokyo Stock Exchange employee, a man in his 20s, was suspected of providing information on listed companies’ tender offers multiple times this year to a relative  of his.

Tokyo exchange employee under probe for alleged insider trading, JPX says

A TOKYO Stock Exchange employee is under investigation by the country’s financial watchdog for suspected insider trading, its parent company Japan Exchange Group (JPX) said on Wednesday.

The firm founded by Simon Sadler(top) vacated the 21st and 22nd floors of 100 Queen’s Road Central which had more than a year left on its lease.

Segantii gives up Hong Kong office amid insider dealing charge

Segantii now lists a suite in a nearby serviced office as its Hong Kong address

Simon Sadler, chief investment officer and founder of Segantii Capital Management, at the Eastern Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong in June. He, ex-trader Daniel La Rocca, and the firm are accused of insider dealing ahead of a block trade in 2017.

Hedge fund Segantii has returned more than 90% of client money

This comes less than two months after it told investors it would give them back their money

Ge Zhi was apprehended on Jul 3 and brought to the State Courts the next day, where he was ordered to be held under the Extradition Act.

Singaporean arrested at US request for alleged global insider trading, money laundering

33-year-old man held under Extradition Act accused of pocketing tens of millions in illegal profits

The sentence was handed to Yeo on charges related to his involvement in Swiber making a false announcement on the Singapore Exchange relating to a US$710 million project award.

Former Swiber director fined S$310,000 for false project announcement, insider trading

Yeo Chee Neng, who was later made Swiber’s chief executive, is also disqualified from being a director of any company for five years

The civil penalty imposed follows a joint investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department and Monetary Authority of Singapore into the case.

Man fined S$70,000 for insider trading of GS Holdings shares

Investigations find that over a period of 13 days between Oct 4 and Nov 18, 2019, Tay Joo Heng purchased 515,000 shares in the company

The investigations show there have been deficiencies in how Nasdaq Stockholm  conducted its trading monitoring, which should prevent, identify and report insider dealing.

Stockholm exchange fined US$10 million for insider trading lapses

The violations were not serious enough to warrant withdrawing the exchange’s authorisation