fraud

How an Insider Exploited a Blind Spot Hidden in Plain Sight Insider fraud case. Brokerage platform oversight. Internal control failure. Employee access risk. Financial account manipulation. These risks surfaced again when one employee found a weakness inside a major brokerage’s stock-plan system and used it to move more than $750,000 without raising a single alert. […]

NASAA and state regulators are pleading with Congress once more to maintain the  “investment contract” requirements for cryptocurrency. Apparently, “just wing it” is still a popular business model. Regulators opened 345 investigations into unregistered firms this year, plus nearly 1,000 into unregistered individuals because nothing screams investor confidence like someone running a hedge fund out of a Gmail account.According to NASAA, the usual suspects are back: shady “private placement” hustlers, crypto

Yes, 2025 is the year that investors once again demonstrated that they will give their money to anyone who has a ticker symbol and a Telegram channel. The losses from “pump-and-dump” strategies that target obscure Chinese micro-caps have totaled billions.