Home / Cases / The naked short selling debate The naked short selling debate enforcement actions This library records 41 enforcement actions tagged the naked short selling debate. Naked short selling is selling short without having borrowed the security or arranged to borrow it, which is restricted by Regulation SHO and whose real-world scale and price impact remain genuinely contested.
Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the the naked short selling debate technique page.
Actions 41
Total penalties $263k
Median penalty $45k
Largest $75k
Criminal parallel 0% Action Agency Filed Penalty Status SEC v. Robinhood Financial LLC and Robinhood Securities, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2025) SEC 2025-01-13 — settled SEC v. Maxim Group, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2023) SEC 2023-09-29 — settled SEC v. Citadel Securities, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2023) SEC 2023-09-22 — settled SEC v. Simplex Trading, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2023) SEC 2023-09-11 — settled SEC v. Hal D. Mintz and Sabby Management LLC (naked short selling debate, 2023) SEC 2023-06-14 — filed SEC v. IMC Chicago, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2022) SEC 2022-08-12 — settled SEC v. BTIG, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2022) SEC 2022-05-03 — judgment SEC v. Maplelane Capital LLC (naked short selling debate, 2022) SEC 2022-05-02 — settled SEC v. Tradition Securities and Derivatives, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2021) SEC 2021-09-28 — settled SEC v. Murchinson Ltd. and Marc Bistricer and Paul Zogala (naked short selling debate, 2021) SEC 2021-08-17 — settled SEC v. BTIG, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2021) SEC 2021-05-20 — filed SEC v. Cormark Securities Inc. (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-12-21 — settled SEC v. ITG Canada Corp. and Virtu ITG Canada Corp. (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-12-21 — settled SEC v. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-09-30 — settled SEC v. Celadon Financial Group LLC (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-07-27 — settled SEC v. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-06-29 — settled SEC v. Biltmore International Corporation (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-04-24 — settled SEC v. BMA Securities, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2020) SEC 2020-03-12 — settled SEC v. Vandham Securities Corp. (boiler rooms, 2019) SEC 2019-09-16 — settled SEC v. EMS Capital LP (naked short selling debate, 2019) SEC 2019-08-27 — settled SEC v. Wedbush Securities, Inc. (naked short selling debate, 2019) SEC 2019-06-18 — settled SEC v. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services LLC (naked short selling debate, 2019) SEC 2019-06-14 — settled SEC v. The Bank of New York Mellon (naked short selling debate, 2018) SEC 2018-12-17 — settled SEC v. Citibank, N.A. (naked short selling debate, 2018) SEC 2018-11-07 — settled SEC v. Michael L. LaPenna (naked short selling debate, 2018) SEC 2018-09-19 $22.5k settled SEC v. Sycamore Lane Partners LLC (naked short selling debate, 2018) SEC 2018-07-23 $25k settled SEC v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (naked short selling debate, 2018) SEC 2018-07-20 — settled SEC v. Bayes Capital, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2018) SEC 2018-06-28 — settled SEC v. Banca IMI Securities Corp. (naked short selling debate, 2017) SEC 2017-08-18 — settled SEC v. Wilson-Davis & Company, Inc. (naked short selling debate, 2017) SEC 2017-04-26 $75k settled SEC v. Orthofix International N.V.; Jeffrey Hammel and CPA; Brian McCollum; Kenneth Mack and Bryan McMillan (naked short selling debate, 2017) SEC 2017-01-18 $40k settled SEC v. ITG Inc. (naked short selling debate, 2017) SEC 2017-01-12 — settled SEC v. Anthony B. Kerrigone (naked short selling debate, 2016) SEC 2016-12-16 $50k settled SEC v. Byron B. Barkley and Paul N. Davis (naked short selling debate, 2016) SEC 2016-12-16 $50k settled SEC v. Wilson-Davis & Company, Inc. (naked short selling debate, 2016) SEC 2016-12-16 — unknown SEC v. Goldman and Sachs & Co. (naked short selling debate, 2016) SEC 2016-01-14 — settled SEC v. Wolverine Trading, LLC and and Wolverine Asset Management, LLC (insider trading, 2015) SEC 2015-10-08 — settled SEC v. Brian David Hall (naked short selling debate, 2015) SEC 2015-09-17 — settled SEC v. Rudolfo DeLaSierra (naked short selling debate, 2015) SEC 2015-09-17 — settled SEC v. Merrill Lynch (naked short selling debate, 2015) SEC 2015-06-01 — filed SEC v. du Pasquier & Co., Inc. (naked short selling debate, 2015) SEC 2015-01-21 — settled