SEC Wins Novel ‘Shadow’ Insider Trading Trial Against Executive

Reported by Rachel Graf The US Securities and Exchange Commission won a jury verdict in its ground-breaking insider-trading case that sought to bar employees from using non-public information about their own company to place bets on rival stocks. The closely watched San Francisco civil trial was the regulator’s first enforcement action targeting so-called shadow trading, a widespread […]

Organized Crime Is Laundering Money Through European Real Estate

Reported by Max Ramsay Over a third of the most-threatening criminal networks in the European Union are laundering their profits through real estate, according to a report on organized crime across the region. Europol, the EU agency for law enforcement cooperation, found that among the criminal groups that pose the most serious threat, 41% used […]