SEC v. Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor (insider trading, 2026)

Judgment entered

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In March 2026 the Securities and Exchange Commission announced final consent judgments, entered February 17, against former London investment bankers Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor, charged in a multi-year international scheme in which they allegedly misappropriated information on impending deals from their bank. Both were enjoined; Taylor was ordered to pay $500,000 in disgorgement, and Windsor $50,000 in disgorgement and a $50,000 penalty.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$50k

Disgorgement

$550k

Prejudgment interest

—

Total relief

$600k

Alleged gain

—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced these judgments on March 27, 2026 as release LR-26509, in a Southern District of New York case filed October 22, 2019 and amended March 27, 2020.

The amended complaint alleges the scheme netted its participants tens of millions of dollars from trading in U.S. companies. The recorded disgorgement adds the two stated amounts; the penalty is Windsor's.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

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Timeline

1. 2026-03-27 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.