Insider trading

SEC busts sticky note insider trading scheme

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Brooklyn man with facilitating a $5.6 million insider trading scheme that typically involved the passing of illegal tips via napkins or post-it notes at Grand Central Terminal.

By Staff |September 19, 2014

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Economic Indicators

Insider trading more common than you think

Before market moving deals are made, information often seeps out, to the benefit of a few individuals, finds a new study.

By Staff |June 18, 2014

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Industry

OSC wiretaps overdue, says past inside trader

The OSC is asking Ontario to give law enforcement the power to use wiretaps to catch insider trading, the Toronto Star reports.

By Staff |March 28, 2014

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Industry

Charges in napkin-eating insider trading scheme

A law clerk and a Morgan Stanley trader have been charged with insider trading, in a plot that involved passing information through messengers.

By Staff |March 20, 2014

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Accountant charged for insider trading in wife’s account

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against the former director of internal audit at a Chicago-based health care information technology company for insider trading ahead of the release of its financial results and making more than a quarter-million dollars in illicit profits.

By Staff |January 30, 2014

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SEC charges two with insider trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced insider trading charges against a former systems administrator at Vermont-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters who repeatedly obtained quarterly earnings data and traded in advance of its public release. The SEC also charged his friend who illegally traded along with him.

By Staff |August 7, 2013

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SEC charges two in Spain with insider trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former high-ranking official at Madrid-based Banco Santander S.A. and a former judge in Spain with insider trading based on non-public information about a proposed acquisition for which the Spanish investment bank was acting as an advisor.

By Staff |July 31, 2013

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Insider trading

SEC busts sticky note insider trading scheme

Insider trading more common than you think

OSC wiretaps overdue, says past inside trader

Charges in napkin-eating insider trading scheme

Accountant charged for insider trading in wife’s account

Heinz insider traders settle with SEC for $5M

SEC charges two with insider trading

SEC charges two in Spain with insider trading

SEC charges tipper in S.A.C. insider trading case

SEC charges media exec over alleged insider trading