{"id":6133,"date":"2017-03-31T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2017-03-31T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T00:15:56","slug":"cftc-cases-ex-citigroup-global-markets-traders-settle-spoofing-charges-vision-financial-partners-pay-6-5m-off-exchange-binary-options-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/cftc-cases-ex-citigroup-global-markets-traders-settle-spoofing-charges-vision-financial-partners-pay-6-5m-off-exchange-binary-options-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Cases: Ex-Citigroup Global Markets Traders Settle Spoofing Charges and Vision Financial Partners to Pay Over $6.5M in Off-Exchange Binary Options Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Former Citigroup Global Markets Traders to Pay Penalties for Spoofing <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ex-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/citigroup-background-information.html\">Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (C) <\/a>traders Jonathan Brims and Stephen Gola have settled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securities-fraud-attorneys.com\">spoofing <\/a>charges that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission brought against them. According to the regulator, the two men engaged in spoofing while trading for the firm, and they must now pay $200K and $350K in civil monetary penalties, respectively. They also are temporarily &#8220;banned from trading in futures markets.&#8221; Goal and Brims won&#8217;t be allowed to resume trading in the futures markets until six months after they\u2019ve paid their penalties in full.<\/p>\n<p>According to their respective orders, the two men engaged in spoofing, which involves making a bid or offer with the intention to cancel the bid or offer prior to execution of the bid. They did this over 1,000 times in different Chicago Mercantile Exchange US Treasury futures products. They would make offers or bids of at least 1,000 lots even though they planned to cancel the orders before they actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The orders were made after another small offer or bid was made on the other side of the same market &#8220;or a correlated futures or cash market.&#8221; The CFTC said that the two men initiated the orders in order set up or increase an already existing imbalance in the order book. They purportedly canceled the orders after the smaller orders were filed or if they determined that there was too high a risk that their orders might actually go through.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/cftc-cases-ex-citigroup-global-markets-traders-settle-spoofing-charges-vision-financial-partners-pay-6-5m-off-exchange-binary-options-fraud-case\/#more-6133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Citigroup Global Markets Traders to Pay Penalties for Spoofing Ex-Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (C) traders Jonathan Brims and Stephen Gola have settled spoofing charges that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission brought against them. According to the regulator, the two men engaged in spoofing while trading for the firm, and they must now pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3810,3820,3752,3741],"tags":[2790,2742],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cftc","category-citigroup","category-financial-firms","category-securities-fraud","tag-binary-options-fraud","tag-spoofing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Citigroup Global Markets Traders Settle Spoofing Charges | Securities Fraud Attorney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ex-Citigroup Global Markets Inc. 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