Exchanges urged to do more to oust tricksters; The renowned freewheeling and aggressive environment of futures trading is now firmly under the microscope with the industry keen to show it can still police itself. Hang Seng warrants: traders complain; In 3 letters to SGX and MAS, they allege Macquarie’s pricing is “unfair” and “erratic”, with warrants often not moving in line with underlying index

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May 4, 2015 11:28 am

Exchanges urged to do more to oust tricksters

Philip Stafford in London and Gregory Meyer in New York

The renowned freewheeling and aggressive environment of futures trading is now firmly under the microscope with the industry keen to show it can still police itself. The arrest of UK trader Navinder Singh Sarao for four years of alleged market manipulation of equity futures has shone a fierce spotlight on the dubious trading practices known as spoofing and layering, and done little to improve the reputation of markets.

The crackdown was reinforced last Thursday by the 60-day banning of two traders from the United Arab Emirates on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for alleged gold futures manipulation. Now traders are being reminded of the need to not only have adequate financial resources, but also exhibit “good moral character, a good reputation and business integrity,” as the CME’s rules state. Continue reading

业绩造假虚构股东股改承诺 博元投资(600656 CH)或成中技系首家强制退市公司

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业绩造假虚构股东股改承诺 博元投资或成中技系首家强制退市公司

一财网 杨佼 2015-03-27 18:41:00

在3月27日的证监会新闻发布会上,新闻发言人邓舸表示,博元投资的违法行为十分严重,涉嫌信披重大违规。追溯调整后,其连续四个会计年度资产的均为负值。投资者可以以受到损失为由向博元投资进行赔偿,同时,相关退市的启动和实施不受上市公司筹划和实施重大重组的影响。

被立案调查10个多月之后,博元投资隐藏多年的信批、债务等惊人黑幕,终于逐渐揭开真相。博元投资 3月27日公告称,于当日收到了上证所的函,后者将对其涉嫌信批违法违规进行公开通报,且已被证监会移送公安机关的函。当天,证监会和上交所均对此事进行了公告。博元投资前身为*ST方源。2010年5月,由余蒂妮控制的珠海华信泰,通过拍卖的方式,获得该公司21.003%股权,成为该公司第一大股东。并于2011年9月更为现名。截至2014年6月,珠海华信泰持有博远投资1997万股,持股比例为10.49%,仍为第一大股东。珠海华信泰在博元投资股改时曾承诺,将以现金履行及代付股改业绩承诺。2011年4月29日,博元投资曾公告称,已累计收到珠海华信泰支付的股改业绩承诺款 2.77亿元,并收到珠海华信泰代吴伟英、东莞市勋达投资管理有限公司、辽源大成投资有限公司、黄铮、吴为荣、林欢支付的股改业绩承诺款共计约1.6亿元,两者合计约4.38亿元至此,珠海华信泰承诺已履行完毕。

但事实上,上述资金并未真正支付。中技系暗中入主后,博元投资业绩并未改善,反而出现大量银行承兑汇票及债务。有接近中技系的人士此前曾告诉《第一财经日报》,包括博元投资在内,中技系控制的几家上市公司中,部分负债根本就不存在。 Continue reading

Zhuhai Boyuan Investment (600656 CH), a Shanghai-listed firm that specializes in recycling industrial waste, Says It Won’t Stand By Its Own Earnings Report

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Apr 30, 2015

This Listed Chinese Company Says It Won’t Stand By Its Own Earnings Report

China’s stock market is known for rampant irregularities such as insider trading and fraudulent accounting. It’s usually the regulators that catch the suspects, just like in any other country. Now, in a possible precedent for a market regarded by some as the Wild Wild West of investing, a company is suggesting publicly that its earnings report may not be accurate. Zhuhai Boyuan Investment Co., a Shanghai-listed firm that specializes in recycling industrial waste, raised the doubts from the very first words of the 2014 financial statement released Thursday:

“The company’s board of directors, board of supervisors and senior management are unable to guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy and comprehensiveness of the annual report. Nor are they able to guarantee that the report doesn’t contain any false records, misleading statements or significant omissions.”

“The reason is: the current state of the company,” Boyuan said.

That “current state” includes having recently been placed under investigation by China’s securities watchdog and police for allegations of illegal disclosure and failure to disclose important information.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange, which has already warned investors that Boyuan faces delisting, decided to suspend trading in the stock from Thursday. The bourse demanded the company offer further explanation for its claim that it can’t guarantee the truthfulness of its financial statement. Continue reading

Sound Global (967 HK): Auditors Identified Audit Issues of Missing RMB2bn Cash Shortfall and Reported Matters to Ministry of Finance in Singapore

(967) Sound Global: Sound Global Ltd announced that its auditors, during its course of audit work, have identified Potential Audit Issues (the Matters), which refer to a shortfall of or about RMB2 bn between Sound Global’s cash balances at bank and that on Sound Global’s books as at 31 December 2014. The auditors have reported the Matters to the Ministry of Finance in Singapore. To ascertain the facts and the nature of the Matters, Sound Global’s independent review committee (the IRC) will engage an independent professional firm with competent experience and expertise in corporate investigations (the Reviewer) for the review of the Matters. It i s expected that the engagement of the Reviewer will be confirmed by early next week and the first draft of the report on the findings of the review will be available around mid-May 2015

Korean investors took a severe beating from the fake herbal medicine produced by Naturalendo Tech, with their combined investment losses estimated at more than 600 billion won ($559 million); Naturalendo Tech affair exposes cracks in Kosdaq

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Updated : 2015-05-01 20:19

Fake medicine hits retail investors hard
By Choi Kyong-ae

Individual investors took a severe beating from the fake herbal medicine produced by Naturalendo Tech, with their combined investment losses estimated at more than 600 billion won ($559 million).
“About 9,400 retail investors held a combined 54 percent stake in Naturalendo Tech as of the end of last year. They likely suffered hefty losses as the company’s stock prices fell sharply Thursday after the authorities said the herbal medicine contained uncertified ingredients,” an official at the tech-heavy KOSDAQ market said.  Continue reading

SEC Announces Insider Trading Charges Linked to China Tech Deal; SEC alleged two Beijing residents bought out-of-the-money call options before deal was announced

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SEC Announces Insider Trading Charges Linked to China Tech Deal; SEC alleged two Beijing residents bought out-of-the-money call options before deal was announced

NED LEVIN

April 30, 2015 1:09 a.m. ET

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced insider trading charges against two Beijing residents on Wednesday, alleging they purchased stock options ahead of Chinese e-commerce company 58.com’s purchase of a $1.6 billion minority stake in rival Ganji.com.

The regulator said a court had granted its request to freeze assets in the U.S. brokerage accounts of Xia Xiaoyu and Hu Yanting. The SEC alleged the two bought out-of-the-money call options, or bets that the stock price of a company will go up, in New York-listed 58.com after the deal was signed but before it was announced. The SEC said Mr. Xia and Ms. Hu had profited by more than $2 million through their purchase of the options. 58.com’s stock surged by 34% after it was initially reported that the two companies would agree to a deal. Continue reading

Former Inix Technologies Bhd CEO Jimmy Tok Soon Guan jailed for 45 months for providing false accounting statements.

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Former Inix CEO jailed for 45 months

Thursday, 23 April 2015

PETALING JAYA: Inix Technologies Holdings Bhd’s former chief executive officer, Jimmy Tok Soon Guan, has been sentenced to 45 months in jail for providing false statements. The Securities Commission (SC) said in a statement yesterday that the sentence was imposed by the Court of Appeal.

Tok, 45, was charged in the Sessions Court in 2011 with one count of providing false information in the company’s prospectus under Section 55 of the Securities Commission Act (SCA) and four counts of submitting false statements to Bursa Malaysia in the company’s quarterly reports between October 2005 and July 2006 under Section 122B of the Securities Industry Act (SIA). Continue reading

Hanergy: Where Did All That Money Go?!

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April 24, 2015, 12:04 A.M. ET

Hanergy: Where Did All That Money Go?!

By Shuli Ren

First Financial Daily, a well-respected financial newspaper in China, had a damninginvestigative report on Hanergy Solar‘s (566.Hong Kong) parent Hanergy Group today. According to First Financial, since 2009, Hanergy Group has raised billions from bank loans, trusts and peer-to-peer lending in the name of funding solar projects. But many projects are stalled.

Hanergy Group sounds like it was hanging with the right crowd. Last January, it said that it has raised at least 20 billion yuan from reputable financiers such as the Minsheng Bank and Minsheng-affiliated Asia Financial Cooperation Association, and back in 2011, it raised 30 billion yuan from China Development Bank. But First Financial was unable to obtain details on these mega financing deals. Rather, Hanergy Group has been funding from small, regional banks, as well as trusts. Continue reading

揭开汉能资金链谜团

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揭开汉能资金链谜团

第一财经日报 慕青 2015-04-24 06:56:00

2009年以来,凭借“四处开花“的太阳能项目,借助银行、信托、民间借贷等多种途径,汉能控股近年来从外界获得了巨额融资。不过,与汉能控股不断加码光伏项目投资的高调相比,访分布在全国各地的生产基地中,多数项目进展缓慢,有的项目投建计划无法按时实现,甚至停工等待,投产更是遥遥无期。 Continue reading

争议李河君:赚钱是靠太阳能还是汉能股价

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争议李河君

第一财经日报 黎雨 时晓 2015-04-24 06:44:00

对于李河君,政府、合作伙伴及同行存在两种截然不同的评价。有人相信眼前的李河君就是传说的那个“做大事”的人,但外界对他并不了解,对他的宏图韬略也未吃透。而另一种声音也从未停止:“资本高手”才是对他的真正定位,李河君不是在靠太阳能赚钱,而是靠汉能薄膜发电的股价发家。

“汉能大了,雾霾就少了。”短短9个字,成了光伏圈最潮的口头禅。其所包含的环保霸图与企业家雄心,不言而喻。

穹顶之下,雾霾之苦,汉能可以带来一些绿色的希望吗?

汉能背后,是中国新首富的崛起神话。李河君的版图扩张和财富增速令人咋舌。 Continue reading