Culled—Proshare February 5, 2019/Coronation Research In the run-up to general elections in two weeks’ time, the subject of corruption comes up a lot in the press. Transparency International recently published its annual (2018) assessment in which Nigeria did not improve on its 2017 score. Yet there are initiatives which are […]

February 4, 2019/US SEC On January 17, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted in part and denied in part the SEC’s motion for partial summary judgment against Thomas Conrad, Jr. and two unregistered advisory firms he controlled, Financial Management Corporation (“FMC”) and Financial […]

February 1, 2019/US SEC On November 28, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a judgment against a penny stock promoter in connection with multiple pump-and-dump schemes. On November 17, 2014, the SEC charged Jay Fung and two others with orchestrating schemes to manipulate five penny stocks between November 2009 […]