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

Currently, the system distorts and disrupts price discovery because it does not balance the costs of shorting with the costs of buying, thus tilting forces in favour of shorting.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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...

In an indictment filed in 2019, Winterkorn had been accused of not informing the capital market in a timely manner of the installation of defeat devices in the diesel engines of Volkswagen cars, as required by law.

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,...

Market manipulation damages the interests of all investors by disrupting the smooth functioning of financial markets and lowering investor confidence.
INSIGHTS FROM CFA SOCIETY SINGAPORE

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...

An oil tanker near the port city of Nakhodka, Russia. Initial reports indicated that Russian oil was trading at or below the US$60 price cap. Now, some claim that reported prices are inaccurate.

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 ...

The police are seeking information by Feb 20 from Viet Capital Securities about transactions concerning Eximbank shares made by Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited, a fund controlled by Dragon Capital, which is the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam’s stock market.

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...

John Soh and Quah Su-Ling have been found guilty for their involvement in the October 2013 penny stock crash that wiped S$8 billion in market capitalisation from penny stocks on the Singapore Exchange.

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.

John Soh Chee Wen (left) and his ex-girlfriend Quah Su-Ling were convicted of all 10 market manipulation charges brought against them.

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 and Exchange Surveillance Commission recommended that the Financial Service Agency impose an administrative punishment on SMBC Nikko after it found insufficient compliance had allowed the misconduct.

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 ...

Neil Phillips was charged with conspiring to manipulate the US dollar-South African rand exchange rate in late 2017.

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...