July 31, 2019
A New York federal court on Wednesday transferred to Texas a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit accusing an energy commodities broker of using a friend's account to profit on nonpublic information about his clients' block trades, finding that the alleged scheme was rooted primarily in the Lone Star State.
February 14, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission told a New York federal court on Wednesday to reject EOX Holdings' request to transfer an insider trading suit to Texas, arguing that a change would not provide more convenient access to documents or witnesses regarding the alleged mishandling of private information about block trades.
December 04, 2018
A Houston-based energy commodities brokerage on Monday asked a New York federal judge to drop claims and dismiss one of its brokers entirely from a "misguided" U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit accusing the broker of using a friend's account to profit on nonpublic information about his clients' block trades.
September 28, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has created an insider trading task force, the same day the agency accused a Houston-based energy commodities broker of using clients' trading information to help a friend make money.