Tag: Securities Fraud

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed the SEC an important enforcement win. In Sripetch v. SEC, the Court ruled that the agency does not need to prove measurable investor losses before seeking disgorgement of illegal profits. For financial operators, promoters, and crypto schemes, the message is clear: illegal gains remain exposed.

A new study on pump and dump schemes in the crypto space has been published by universities in Israel...

Pump-and-dump schemes are an old, well-known securities fraud phenomenon in the financial markets. With cryptocurrencies, this illicit scheme has...

On July 25 2018 the U.S. SEC issued a so-called Section 21(a) report of its investigation into an offering...

After the collapse of the ICO-Hype, the great awakening of regulators and investors takes place. It is becoming increasingly...