Massachusetts securities regulator William Galvin is subpoenaing Bank of America Corp. over two collateralized loan obligations that led to investors to lose $150 million. Galvin is trying to determine whether the financial firm knew it was overvaluing the portfolios’ assets so it could remove the loans from its books. The…
If you are an investor who sustained financial losses from the Highland Floating Rate Advantage Funds, please contact the securities fraud law firm of Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas, LTD, LLP right away and ask for your free case evaluation. Unfortunately, the Highland Floating Rate Funds, which have produced negative…
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins says that the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t need to go through a full civil trial in order to make the Securities Investor Protection Corp. start liquidation proceedings to compensate the victims of Allen Stanford’s $7B Ponzi scam for their losses. This ruling is…
Now that Texas insider trading defendant Charles Wyly has passed away, the Securities and Exchange Commission may decide to pursue disgorgement from his estate. In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York last month, Judge Shira Scheindlin said that the SEC’s bid for disgorgement survives Wyly’s…
Carlyle Group will no longer be including a controversial arbitration clause initial public offering filing. The private equity giant had filed its IPO documents last year but has since been pressed by regulators and investors to drop the clause, which would have prevented company shareholders from submitting class action lawsuits…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has filed a complaint against Charles Schwab Corp. The SRO says the online brokerage is in violation of FINRA rules because it makes clients waive their rights to pursue class actions against it. Per a new provision added to over 6.8 million customer account agreements,…
Two days after the US Senate votes 92 to 2 to take up a measure that would ban Congressional members from engaging in insider trading, the legislation has passed by a 96 to 3 vote. The bill, which bars members of Congress from using confidential information obtained as a result…
Salmaan Siddiqui and David Higgs have pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to falsify books in the mortgage-backed securities fraud case against them. Higgs was former a Credit Suisse managing director while Siddiqui had been vice president. The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is asking District Judge Robert Wilkins to make the federal Securities Investor Protection Corp. set up a claims process for the Ponzi fraud victims of R. Allen Stanford. These investors had purchased $7.2B in certificates of deposit that allegedly ended up being bogus. The…
The former COO of AmeriFirst Acceptance Corp. and AmeriFirst Funding Corp. was recently convicted of multiple counts of Texas securities fraud and mail fraud for his involvement in bilking over 500 investors of over $50 million. A lot of the victims of Dennis Woods Bowden were retirees. Per evidence that…