(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that a New York-based brokerage firm has agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty to settle charges of compliance and trading surveillance failures.<\/p>\n
Federal securities laws require firms to enforce policies and procedures to prevent the misuse of material, nonpublic information to which their employees routinely have access. <\/p>\n
The SEC\u2019s order finds that Sidoti & Company LLC had no written policies or procedures in place from November 2014 to July 2015 as it pertained to those making investment decisions for an affiliated hedge fund that invested in issuers covered by Sidoti\u2019s research department and some other issuers for which Sidoti provided investment banking services. For example, Sidoti maintained a \u201cdaily restricted list\u201d of securities restricting personal trading because Sidoti was involved in investment banking or marketing activities or the firm was publishing research on the security. There were 126 instances from Nov. 3, 2014 to May 5, 2015 when the hedge fund traded in a stock that appeared on the daily restricted list. <\/p>\n
\u201cSidoti did not devote sufficient resources to set up the requisite trade surveillance and compliance systems and failed to meet its obligation to prevent the misuse of material nonpublic information,\u201d said Andrew M. Calamari, Director of the SEC\u2019s New York Regional Office.<\/p>\n
Without admitting or denying the findings, Sidoti consented to the SEC\u2019s order finding that the firm violated Section 15(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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