- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
Earlier this month, Brian Quintenz was officially sworn in to serve as a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Joining him will be Bruce Tuckman, an internationally-recognized economist and expert in modern derivatives markets, as the agency’s chief economist.
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“Unreasonably delayed reporting” cost one of two claimants whom will unevenly split a $4 million whistleblower award from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for providing information that led to a successful enforcement action.
Regulators continue to hammer firms with fines for violating rules regarding the use of unapproved communication methods by employees, issuing $120 million in fines this week. And for the first time, two firms were not fined because they self-reported their violations.
Fines for off-channel communications use by employees just keep on coming, with 12 municipal advisory firms fined a total of $1.3 million in the latest Securities and Exchange Commission sweep.
