July 10, 2020 - British nationals Benjamin Alderson and Bradley Hamilton have agreed to pay penalties totaling $750,000 to settle a fraud complaint by the SEC regarding their employment with investment firm deVere USA.
July 09, 2020 - Cayman Islands law firm Giglioli & Company is being sued by clients David and Michelle Holden, who claim the company's computer server was hacked and emails intercepted, causing them to be swindled out of US$523,998.
June 22, 2020 - Alleging "serious wrongdoing", two creditors claiming to be owed $448,333 under a loan bearing interest at 10% per month have applied to wind up Cayman Islands-based Obelisk Capital Management Ltd., which manages factoring and gold funds for Obelisk Global, whose directors include Jazeb Jones, who was previously dismissed as MD of a Cayman bank over his relationship with a client accused of committing a £50 million fraud.
June 17, 2020 - Creditors in the BVI, England, and Guernsey have applied to wind up the Cayman Islands parent company of insolvent Liechtenstein insurer Gable Insurance AG.
June 16, 2020 - The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority has revoked the insurance licenses of Atlas Re SPC and Intrepid Re SPC, which are both managed by USA Risk Group (Cayman) Ltd., for suspected insolvency and breaches of the jurisdiction's Insurance Law.
June 14, 2020 - In a series of regulatory actions announced on Friday, the Malta Financial Services Authority cancelled the licenses of three investment firms and imposed fines on a retirement scheme and its administrator.
June 12, 2020 - The liquidators of ABRAAJ Investment Management Ltd. have applied to take discovery from 17 banks and a clearing house in the U.S. for "contemplated litigation" in the Cayman Islands to recover more than $385 million allegedly misappropriated by the Dubai-based ABRAAJ Group's founder, Arif Naqvi.
June 04, 2020 - Two major U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchanges - Bittrex and Poloniex - have been added as defendants to a class action complaint that alleges crypto buyers around the world were collectively swindled out of billions of dollars in an unprecedented "criminal" price manipulation scheme.
May 28, 2020 - The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority has revoked the banking license of Hinduja Bank & Trust (Cayman) Ltd. for suspected insolvency, its Switzerland-based sole director, Gilbert Pfaeffli, not being "fit and proper", and other regulatory breaches
May 21, 2020 - Intelligence and investigations firm Diligence has accused its former CEO, Nick Day, of trying to "sink the business with his outrageous legal spending" after it was forced to advance him $788,377 to satisfy legal bills that he incurred at a rate of approximately $12,500 per day in the first two months of defending a lawsuit that the company brought against him for allegedly swindling it out of "millions of dollars".
