The Commodity Futures Trading Commission reports that it has settled charges against Interactive Brokers LLC, a registered futures commission merchant, for “failing to diligently supervise its employees’ handling of exchange fees charged to customers.” The commission’s order calls for Interactive Brokers to “cease and desist from violating the CFTC regulation addressing supervision, pay $710,828.14 in… Read More >>
Interactive Brokers Settles SARs & AML Cases for $38M
Interactive Brokers (IB) will be writing several checks and money orders as it pays $38 million in penalties to three industry regulators for alleged failures in filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), and anti-money laundering (AML) controls — a clear sign that authorities are cracking down on the obligation to monitor suspicious activity. The SEC is… Read More >>
FINRA Charges Interactive Brokers with Regulation SHO Violations
Electronic execution brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has been fined $5.5 million by FINRA, a self-regulatory organization (SRO), for allegedly violating the rules for short sale practices — covered by the SEC’s Regulation SHO —and for supervisory failures from July 2012 through June 2015. “Regulation SHO established ‘locate’ and ‘close-out’ standards that are primarily aimed at… Read More >>
Four Big Brokers Charged with Market Access Misdeeds
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Interactive Brokers LLC have been censured and fined a total of $4.75 million for violations of various provisions of the market access regulations (rule 15c3-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) and “related exchange supervisory rules,” according to a statement by… Read More >>
Survey Finds Asset Managers Want to Centralize Investment Data as Interactive Brokers Embraces ISO 20022 for Corporate Actions
Aite Group Finds Support Growing for Investment Book of Records Approach Asset managers and wealth management firms are moving toward an unobstructed, holistic view of their investment data as they embrace an investment book of records (IBOR) approach, says Rick McCarthy, vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas at DST Global Solutions. The… Read More >>
