Month: October 2019

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Fined: RBC Capital Markets, LLC Fined by FINRA

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RBC Capital Markets, LLC Fined by FINRA

An AWC was issued in which the firm was censured, fined $2,900,000 and required to provide a written certification to FINRA that it has established and implemented a supervisory system and written procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with FINRA rules and the federal securities laws applicable to prospectus delivery. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it failed to establish and maintain a reasonable supervisory system governing the delivery of prospectuses for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchangetraded notes (ETNs) and mutual funds and failed to enforce its WSPs.

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Fined: Insight Securities, Inc. Fined by FINRA

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Insight Securities, Inc. Fined by FINRA

An AWC was issued in which the firm was censured and fined $30,000. No restitution is provided for in the AWC as the firm already paid restitution to the affected customers. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that its pricing of corporate bond transactions traded for its own account failed to be fair taking into consideration all relevant circumstances, including market conditions with respect to each bond at the time of the transaction, the expense involved, and the fact that the firm was entitled to a profit.

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Article: Fincrime Briefing: UBS pays to settle laundering probe, U.S., South Korea take down largest crypto-fueled child exploitation site, DOJ guidance on fines when you can’t pay, and more

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Fincrime Briefing: UBS pays to settle laundering probe, U.S., South Korea take down largest crypto-fueled child exploitation site, DOJ guidance on fines when you can’t pay, and more

Brian Monroe, 17 October 2019

UBS pays $11 million to settle Italian money laundering probe, tied to tax fracas An Italian judge has accepted a request by UBS to pay more than 10 million euros ($11 million) to settle a money-laundering investigation, ending one of the Swiss bank’s biggest legal headaches in Europe, just the latest in a series of international probes and settlements tied to financial crime and compliance failures.

UBS has been grappling with two separate probes in Italy and a court case in France over allegations it enabled cross-border tax cheats to hide assets in Switzerland.

The judge on Thursday accepted the payment of 2.125 million euros as “agreed penalty” to close the case while also seizing 8.175 million euros as profit from the alleged money-laundering, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The settlement, which by Italian law is not an admission of guilt, was requested by UBS in July, after a deal with Italian prosecutors. Last June, the Swiss bank paid 101 million euros to settle its other Italian case, a related financial investigation, with tax authorities. Continue reading “Article: Fincrime Briefing: UBS pays to settle laundering probe, U.S., South Korea take down largest crypto-fueled child exploitation site, DOJ guidance on fines when you can’t pay, and more”

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Article: Form S-1/A Bionano Genomics, Inc

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Form S-1/A Bionano Genomics, Inc

EDGARFILINGS LTD, 17 October 2020

We are offering 5,265,000 shares of our common stock and common warrants to purchase an aggregate of 5,265,000 shares of our common stock (and the shares of common stock that are issuable from time to time upon exercise of the warrants). We are also offering to certain purchasers whose purchase of shares of common stock in this offering would otherwise result in the purchaser, together with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, 9.99%) of our outstanding common stock immediately following the consummation of this offering, the opportunity to purchase, if any such purchaser so chooses, pre-funded warrants, in lieu of shares of common stock that would otherwise result in such purchaser’s beneficial ownership exceeding 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, 9.99%) of our outstanding common stock. Each pre-funded warrant will be exercisable for one share of our common stock. Continue reading “Article: Form S-1/A Bionano Genomics, Inc”

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Article: Wirecard’s suspect accounting practices revealed

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Wirecard’s suspect accounting practices revealed

Dan McCrum

Financial Times, 15 October 2019

FT Investigation: internal documents from the payments company point to a concerted effort to fraudulently inflate sales and profits

Comment: Dan McCrum is strongly suspected of being a shill for naked short sellers, and appears to be one of several journalists — others work for the Wall Street Journal — who routinely bash companies to further illegal naked short selling campaign.  He should be deeply investigated.

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Article: Bausch Health jumps after short seller says stock could double

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Bausch Health jumps after short seller says stock could double

Cristin Flanagan, 15 October 2019

Shares of Bausch Health Cos. jumped as much as 5.5 per cent intraday after a short-seller changed his tune and said the stock could nearly double. Also, Bausch shed another bear as Wells Fargo realigned its coverage. Andrew Left’s Citron Research set a price target of US$40, more than 80 per cent above current trading. The report comes more than four years after the short-seller’s 2015 call, when Left accused Bausch, then known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of being “Enron part deux.”

Bausch shares have come down more than 90 per cent from 2015. The stock “still trades with a ‘Valeant discount’ despite new management’s 180-degree turn,” the Citron report said. Bausch’s Nov. 4 earnings may be when Wall Street finally takes notice, it added.
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Article: Citron Calls Bausch Health — Formerly Valeant — The ‘Textbook Turnaround’

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Citron Calls Bausch Health — Formerly Valeant — The ‘Textbook Turnaround’

Wayne Duggan, 15 October 2019

Three years after Citron Research called Valeant the “pharmaceutical Enron,” the firm said Tuesday that it’s time to give Valeant successor Bausch Health Companies Inc BHC 0.06% the credit it is due for its rebranding and turnaround efforts.

On Tuesday, Citron Research’s Andrew Left said CEO Joe Papa has done a spectacular job since taking over less than four years ago. In the past three years alone, management has paid down about $8 billion in debt, vastly improving the company’s balance sheet and putting them in a position of financial flexibility.

“In 2019, the debt has become manageable and the company is gaining momentum with recent, successful launches of new drugs, consistent with its ‘pivot to offense,’” Left said.
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Article: BAUSCH HEALTH – THE TEXTBOOK TURNAROUND Giving Credit Where Credit is Due – Target Price $40

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BAUSCH HEALTH – THE TEXTBOOK TURNAROUND Giving Credit Where Credit is Due – Target Price $40

Citron Research, 15 October 2019

It was four years ago this month that Citron wrote a series of articles that were instrumental in the unraveling of the Pearson-era Valeant business model. In quick manner the stock has declined by 90% from its highs as the scandals unraveled and many questioned the sustainability of the equity.

Four years later BHC still trades with a “Valeant discount” despite new management’s 180-degree turn of corporate culture. To add to the artificially depressed share price, Bausch has been unjustly grouped with Specialty Pharma despite having ZERO opioid exposure and minimal exposure to the generics market.

Citron believes this quarter (reporting on Nov 4) will force Wall St. to finally take notice of BHC’s “pivot to offense”. Once this is considered along with the acknowledgment of the recent M&A spree in pharma, even David Maris will have to admit that BHC is on its way to $40.
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Fined: Dougherty & Company LLC Fined by FINRA

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Dougherty & Company LLC Fined by FINRA

An AWC was issued in which the firm was censured, fined $25,000 and required to revise its written supervisory procedures (WSPs). Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it failed to make timely submissions or to submit accurate information regarding the result of an interest rate reset for variable rate demand obligations to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s (MSRB) Short-Term Obligation Rate Transparency (SHORT) system.

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Release: ROSEN, A TOP RANKED LAW FIRM, Announces Filing of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Against Overstock.com, Inc.; Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100K to Contact the Firm – OSTK

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ROSEN, A TOP RANKED LAW FIRM, Announces Filing of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Against Overstock.com, Inc.; Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100K to Contact the Firm – OSTK

9 October 2019

Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Overstock.com, Inc. ( OSTK) from May 9, 2019 through September 23, 2019, inclusive (the “Class Period”). The lawsuit seeks to recover damages for Overstock investors under the federal securities laws.

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Release: INVESTOR ALERT Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces the Filing of a Securities Class Action on Behalf of Overstock.com, Inc. Investors

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INVESTOR ALERT: Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces the Filing of a Securities Class Action on Behalf of Overstock.com, Inc. Investors

8 October 2019

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Overstock.com, Inc. (“Overstock” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: OSTK) securities between May 9, 2019 and September 23, 2019, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Overstock investors have until November 26, 2019 to file a lead plaintiff motion.

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Article: Former Overstock CEO Explains by Charles Gasparino and Lydia Moynihan

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Fmr. Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne wants to explain controversial exit, stock sale and predicts more deep state revelations

According to Byrne, his departure and stock sale are unrelated to his FBI activities or what he has described as a romantic tryst with an alleged Russian spy, Maria Butina, though he says those matters will become a huge story sometime soon. Byrne in his interview with FOX Business said he didn’t want to dwell on spycraft (“I’m supposed to be keeping quiet [on] all that political stuff,” he said), adding cryptically that the full story “will break this year and it will be 100 times bigger than Watergate … it’s political fraud conducted by the deep state against the republic, against Democrats and Republicans … I was asked to set up Hillary Clinton,” all of which he declined to elaborate on.

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Fined: ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC Fined by FINRA

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ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC Fined by FINRA

An AWC was issued in which the firm was censured and fined $150,000. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it understated the portfolio margin requirements for accounts at various points in time. The findings stated that the firm incorrectly treated certain overthe-counter (OTC) equity securities, which are not margin eligible, as marginable securities. As a consequence, the firm understated the margin requirements for these accounts by millions of dollars.

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Article: CFTC Settles With Morgan Stanley & Mitsubishi, $1.4 & $0.4 Million Fines For Spoofing Gold & Silver

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CFTC Settles With Morgan Stanley & Mitsubishi, $1.4 & $0.4 Million Fines For Spoofing Gold & Silver

Ottawa Bullion, 3 October 2019

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that civil enforcement actions were filed and simultaneously settled against two trading firms and one bank for violating the Commodity Exchange Act’s (CEA) prohibition on spoofing (bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution). These cases were brought in connection with the Division of Enforcement’s Spoofing Task Force.

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