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Billionaire faces insider trading noose

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... Billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his New York-based hedge fund advisory firm, Galleon Management, has been charged for insider trading that allegedly saw him pocket over $27 million in illicit gains. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, which laid ...

SocGen exec quits after insider trading probe

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... committee member Jean-Pierre Mustier has resigned following a French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) probe into insider trading. Mustier, who had been at the firm for 22 years, agreed he would resign from SocGen at the end of this year, following the ...

Director to plead guilty for insider trading

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
A former director of Lion Selection has appeared in the Melbourne Magistrate's Court to face charges of insider trading - and has indicated to the court that he would plead guilty to the charge. John O'Reilly of Twickenham, London, appeared in the Melbourne ...

ASX listing breaches hit 13pc

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... where the Corporations Act may have been breached or where trading during a 'blackout' period suggests possible insider trading or a failure to meet continuous disclosure obligations, ASX will refer the matter to ASIC for possible investigation and enforcement," ...

ASIC divides to conquer

... teams (instead of one large directorate). Each of these teams will have specific tasks such as handling cases in insider trading, major fraud and international fraud. The regulator will also abolish its four 'silo' directorates and replace them with ...

Algos trap rogue traders

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... Apama division, algorithmic trading has taken the financial world by storm as a market surveillance tool to detect insider trading and market abuse. Apama has been working with several international regulators, including the UK's Financial Services Authority ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... Each tw- hour session begins with a 20 minute presentation which reviews the CFA Code of Ethics and examines ASIC insider trading and fraud case studies. Participants then gather in small groups and debate six to eight hypothetical case studies which ...

Austock teams with Cantor

... responding to media reports that it has been contacted by ASIC regarding the current round of short-selling and alleged insider trading. "Austock [today] confirmed that in fact no such correspondence has been received, and we are not aware of any reason ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... around leveraged investors. NEW YORK - The vice chairman of the International Securities Exchange was charged with insider trading on Thursday, accused of leaking confidential information about the $2.8 billion takeover of the options and stock exchange ...

Listed cos fail compliance test

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... failed to comply with share trading rules today compared to four years ago, raising questions on the prevalence of insider trading and the influence of the country's regulators. The number of top Australian company directors that bought shares two months ...