Latest News

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a Los Angeles-based market access provider and two officials accused of violating the agency’s market access rule that requires firms to have adequate risk controls in place before providing customers with access to the market.

The United States is deeply concerned by the continued detention of human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and journalist Bheki Makhubu in the Kingdom of Swaziland. Maseko and Makhubu were first arrested in March and are being held on charges of contempt of court for publishing an article critical of the High Court of Swaziland.

The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) today issued a call for legislative action to be taken in light of a new report from The Partnership for a New American Economy. The report details how existing H-1B visa lottery caps disproportionately hurt U.S.-born tech workers in the Atlanta metropolitan area by slowing job creation and wage growth in computer-related fields.

Wesley Yui Chew, of Edmond, Oklahoma; his company, Icon Telecom Inc., also of Edmond; and Oscar Enrique Perez-Zumaeta, of Cancun, Mexico, have been charged with crimes involving more than $25 million of fraudulent claims against the federal Lifeline telephone program, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and David L. Hunt, Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

A former trader for ConvergEx Global Markets Limited (CGM Limited) - a former securities broker-dealer registered in Bermuda - has been charged in the District of New Jersey with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.