What changed on this site
A running list of what was corrected or newly published here, newest first, grouped by week (Monday to Sunday). Full explanations are on the corrections page.
October 19, 2026 to October 25, 2026
October 12, 2026 to October 18, 2026
October 5, 2026 to October 11, 2026
- — SEBI scope widened: 167 records added, SEBI now 656; analysis posts re-run on 3,273 records
- — Enforcement week to 2026-10-09: 0 actions
- — SEBI added as a seventh regulator; 21 non-matter records removed; analysis posts re-run
- — AMF second reading, criminal-stage corrections, a new technique
- — AMF France added as a sixth regulator; Google Analytics moved to Consent Mode
- — Seven regulators compared
September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026
- — criminal outcomes, statutes, firm and regulator pages, a database, six landmark posts
- — 543 of 733 records stuck at "filed" were updated; the criminal-parallel flag was corrected on about 140 records
- — Civil cases with a criminal parallel
- — Enforcement by year and agency
- — How cases begin
- — How long enforcement cases take
- — JPMorgan 2020: the metals and Treasuries spoofing matter
- — Landmark matter, Control-Finance 2021
- — Landmark matter, Glencore 2022
- — The 2013 and 2014 benchmark rigging orders
- — The 29 January 2018 anti-spoofing announcement
- — The Stanford judgment, the library's largest penalty
- — Who appears more than once
- — What sanctions the records show
- — the last six records: Cormark was not an insider-trading case, and Caruso's co-respondents were cleared
- — Ponzi sellers keep the Ponzi tag; Cartu binary-options tag confirmed
- — 551 case page addresses renamed because they named a technique the record no longer carries
- — all 2,428 records now checked against their primary documents
- — insider trading, oldest 143 records: 13 were not insider trading, and nearly half carried the wrong status or money
- — insider trading, second list of 143 records: 9 retagged, and about 4 in 10 carried wrong money, status or names
- — insider trading, third list of 143 records: 13 tagged it wrongly, and about half carried a wrong name, outcome or amount
- — insider trading, newest 142 records: ten were not insider-trading cases, and most settled orders had no money or the wrong respondent's money
- — Ponzi schemes, first list of 147: 18 carried a tag the document does not support and about 30 had wrong money
- — Ponzi schemes, second list of 147: 58 carried a tag the document does not support, 34 had the wrong status and 23 the wrong money
- — Ponzi schemes, third list of 147: 33 lost a tag, 50 had the wrong status and 63 had truncated or spliced defendant names
- — Rule 105 orders and Regulation SHO matters: all 83 Rule 105 tags correct, 18 of 49 naked-short-selling tags wrong, and 70 records with wrong money
- — reverse mergers, undisclosed control blocks, free riding and benchmark rigging: about half of 111 records carried a tag the document does not support
- — 128 miscellaneous records (churning, mismarking, hack to trade, smaller techniques and no tag): 12 retagged, two recorded as dismissed when the sanctions stand
- — What reading every record found
- — 1,045 of 2,428 records now checked against their primary documents
- — thirteen CFTC summaries and notices that were not enforcement actions deleted from the case library
- — counts and charts in thirteen posts and five technique pages recomputed after the audit, 124 case titles and 91 filing dates corrected
- — paid stock promotion: 64 of 129 records did not describe undisclosed paid promotion
- — 53 of 132 wash-trading and matched-orders records described a different matter, and eleven more had the two techniques swapped
- — boiler rooms, fake press releases and newsletter scalping: 18 of 106 records carried the wrong tag, 20 a wrong money figure, and 61 a truncated or split defendant name
- — unregistered distributions: 21 of 160 records carried the tag without a Section 5 finding, and many carried the wrong money, status or names
- — insider trading: in a sample of about 150 of 725 records, wrong tags and wrong outcomes were common, and over half of the high-risk ones were the wrong matter
- — pump and dump and price manipulation: 25 records carried a tag the document does not support, and many carried another defendant's figures or no real defendant name
- — 36 records tagged spoofing or layering were not spoofing or layering, and 36 carried wrong money
- — Ponzi schemes: of 147 records read, 20 carried a tag the document does not support, 12 were wrongly "dismissed" and 47 had wrong money
- — Enforcement week to 2026-10-02: 0 actions
- — a reverse-merger tag applied to a gun-jumping case, and two defendant names spliced together
- — nine of 25 churning records describe something else, and two carry a misattributed dollar figure
- — six front-running records checked against their primary document; five mistagged, one records a conviction as a dismissal
- — ten of eleven records tagged chat group pumps were the wrong matter, and the keyword rule that produced them fired on the bare mention of a messaging platform
- — The binary options "trades" that were coin flips the house controlled
- — Eleven records were tagged chat group pumps. One of them is.
- — Nine of the library's 25 churning records aren't churning
- — Twenty-Five Reverse Merger Records, and Fourteen Name the Gatekeeper
- — Fourteen front-running records, and four are front running
September 21, 2026 to September 27, 2026
September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026
- — three techniques had no records although the cache held their cases
- — garbled respondent names, one record describing another defendant's plea, mixed money figures and filing dates
- — a $1.73 billion "HSBC" penalty that was not HSBC's, and unsourced claims in older posts
- — our own repair script emptied 31 CFTC penalties, and five record and post errors
- — Paid to make a market that was not there: the crypto market-maker cases
- — More than half of this library is not market manipulation
- — Hack to trade: press releases stolen before they were published
- — Mismarking: when the price is a number someone types
- — Enforcement week to 2026-09-18: 0 actions
- — Why the SEC fined eleven celebrities for a tweet
- — The takeover bid that was never real
- — How a stranger's brokerage account becomes someone else's pump
- — The anti-manipulation rule you can break without intending anything