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Following is a list of securities frauds (also called stock frauds or investment frauds): 2003 Mutual-fund scandal: A number of major brokerages and mutual fund firms were accused of various deceptive acts that disadvantaged customers. Among them were late trading and market timing. Various SEC rules were enacted to curtail this practice. [1]
The following contains a list of trading losses of the equivalent of US$100 million or higher. Trading losses are the amount of principal losses in an account. [1] Because of the secretive nature of many hedge funds and fund managers, some notable losses may never be reported to the public.
The largest instance of securities fraud committed by an individual ever is a Ponzi scheme operated by former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff, which caused up to an estimated $64.8 billion in losses depending on which method is used to calculate the losses prior to its collapse.
The alleged fraud, amounting to a total of 564.1 billion yuan ($78 billion) over two years, is the largest ever financial fraud case in mainland China’s securities markets, according to previous ...
Lasertec’s massive stock run-up has made it a rising star on the Tokyo Stock Exchange: The company’s shares traded for pennies as recently as 2018, before a six-year tear that saw its share ...
Studies show that 75% of all stock market statistics are useless at best -- and dangerous at worst. Sifting through analysis can be tough for individual investors, and more information can be an ...
Breach of US law, by owning another bank. Fraud, money laundering and larceny. Better known as BCCI. Nordbanken: Sweden: 1991: Banking: Following market deregulation, there was a housing price bubble, and it burst. As part of a general rescue as the Swedish banking crisis unfolded, Nordbanken was nationalised for 64 billion kronor.
"Night wind hawkers" sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble.(The Great Picture of Folly, 1720)Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump).