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SEC Charges Digital Asset Hedge Fund Manager With Misrepresentations and Registration Failures

September 11, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced its first-ever enforcement action finding an investment company registration violation by a hedge fund manager based on its investments in digital assets. The SEC entered an order finding that Crypto Asset Management LP (CAM) offered a fund that operated […]

SEC Charges ICO Superstore, Owners With Operating as Unregistered Broker-Dealers

September 11, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that TokenLot LLC, a self-described “ICO Superstore,” and its owners will settle charges that they acted as unregistered broker-dealers.  This is the SEC’s first case charging unregistered broker-dealers for selling digital tokens after the SEC issued The DAO Report […]

SEC Obtains Relief to Fully Reimburse Retail Investors Sold Unsuitable Product

September 11, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has obtained monetary relief that will fully reimburse retail investors for losses on a leveraged oil-linked exchange-traded note (ETN) that registered representatives of Syracuse, New York-based broker-dealer and investment adviser Cadaret, Grant & Co. Inc. recommended without a […]