Market manipulation
No Signboard former chairman, CEO Lim Yong Sim fined S$420,000 for price rigging
An investigation was opened into his trading activities after the Singapore Exchange referred the case
Regulate short selling to tackle market manipulation
I REFER to the recent Business Times report on the conviction of a man who fraudulently induced others to trade (“Set up a Telegram chat group to trade shares? You may run afoul of the law”, BT, Oct 1...
German court reopens market manipulation probe into former Volkswagen chief
German authorities have reopened a criminal investigation into Martin Winterkorn, chairman of Volkswagen until he was toppled by the 2015 emissions-rigging scandal, over suspected market manipulation,...
Spoofing to boost returns for clients
EVERY so often retail investors in Singapore are greeted by news of market manipulation in the capital market. The Straits Times reported on Oct 7, 2019, of two men sent to jail for spoofing in the Si...
Are Russian oil prices being rigged?
IN 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) grabbed international attention by investigating the manipulation of Libor, Euribor, and other interest-rate benchmarks. By 2015, the CFTC had ...
Vietnam police probe possible stock market manipulation
VIETNAM’S police are investigating transactions made by foreign investors concerning listed domestic lender Eximbank in the first weeks of this year as they suspect its share value was manipulated, ac...
Swindlers list: White-collar criminals who went big – and paid big
AT THE centre of a US$1.1 billion scam, deemed by prosecutors as one of Singapore’s largest investment fraud schemes, stands alleged nickel trading fraudster Ng Yu Zhi.
Prosecutors seek 40-year jail sentence for penny stock crash mastermind, 19½ years for ex-girlfriend
PROSECUTORS are asking for a jail sentence of 40 years for John Soh Chee Wen, the mastermind of Singapore’s biggest case of stock market manipulation that wiped out nearly $8 billion in market capital...
Japan’s securities watchdog recommends punishment for SMBC Nikko
JAPAN’S securities watchdog on Wednesday (Sep 28) recommended punishment of SMBC Nikko Securities, the brokerage unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) , over alleged market manipulation that ...
Hedge fund co-founder Neil Phillips charged with market manipulation
THE arrest of Glen Point Capital co-founder Neil Phillips for alleged foreign-exchange market manipulation threatened to ripple across the hedge fund industry as another firm suspended staffers who pr...