- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-04-05T17:36:00
Goldman Sachs was fined $3 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for mismarking nearly 60 million short sell orders as long and related supervision failures.
The firm further agreed to be censured as part of FINRA’s disciplinary action published Tuesday. Goldman Sachs neither admitted nor denied the self-regulatory organization’s findings.
From 2015-18, Goldman Sachs’s automated trading software mismarked sell orders following a system upgrade intended to simplify order flow, according to FINRA.
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Miami-based broker-dealer Citadel Securities was fined $7 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission addressing mismarked short and long sales caused by a coding error in the firm’s automated trading system.
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $425,000 as part of a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority addressing allegations of reporting and supervision violations regarding more than 1 million over-the-counter options positions.
New Jersey-based investment adviser Sabby Management and its managing partner were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with engaging in a fraudulent short selling scheme involving the stocks of nearly a dozen public companies.
RTX Corp., the parent company of Raytheon, disclosed in a public filing it has reserved $1.24 billion to resolve legacy legal matters with the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Department of State.
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority issued a fine of $4.5 million (3.5 million pounds) against a U.K.-based subsidiary of crypto platform Coinbase for providing services to high-risk customers in violation of FCA rules.
Admera Health agreed to pay more than $5.5 million to resolve allegations first brought by two whistleblowers that it paid kickbacks to third-party contractors, the Department of Justice said.
