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On June 1, 2022, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in California issued a request for comments seeking input from the public in developing guidance and regulatory clarity and supervision of covered persons/service providers involved in the offering and provision of crypto asset-related financial products.  The DFPI provided a number of sample questions […]

On May 24, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) setted charges against a global energy and commodities trading firm for manipulative and deceptive conduct. The conduct in question spanned 11 years from 2007 to 2018 and involved manipulation and foreign corruption in the U.S. and global oil markets, including manipulation or attempted manipulation of

Market valuations have been under pressure in 2022 but financial data volumes have only gone one way: up. How has the dynamic impacted surveillance approaches for financial services firms? In April, Eventus participated in the RegTech Asia 2022 conference. Vince Turcotte, Director Digital Assets, Asia Pacific, joined a panel examining how recent challenges of elevated

Originally published by Markets Media By Martin Appiah, Director of Regulatory Affairs, EMEA, Eventus   On 17 May 2022, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Market Watch 69, its latest newsletter on market conduct and transaction reporting issues. For decades the FCA have been undertaking suspicious transaction and order (STR/STOR) supervisory visits and questionnaires in

Recent events in the commodities market have raised a spotlight on price levels and volatility. On the 8th March 2022, the price of Nickel soared by 250% to more than $100,000 a ton and the Bloomberg Commodity Spot index leaped 13% in a week — the largest one-week price increase in 60 years.   What happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a formal action against a number of individual parties and Archegos Capital Management as part of a multi-billion dollar market manipulation action.  The SEC is seeking to enjoin the parties from further violations of Section 17(a) of the Exchange Act as well as SEC Rule 10b-5.  The SEC

The sun did not set on Eventus team members appearing at insightful conferences around the world this Spring. And that was the case in April when our team spoke at four separate conferences across three continents to weigh in on the state of the industry and the changing tides in regulatory and digital asset markets.

Originally published by FinTech Global   The cryptocurrency market is booming. With new technologies and new products launching on the market, the industry is seemingly going from strength to strength. With new technologies, however, come new challenges. How is the industry changing money laundering? The rise of cryptocurrency is coming at a time of swelling

Originally published in the SIFMA Thought Leader Library By Chris Montagnino, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus A scary thought: you decide to engage a surveillance vendor, implement a set of “off-the-shelf” procedures, calibrate accordingly, and some time later you get an enforcement action for failing to properly monitor trading activity. How could that happen? Perhaps