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The Texas State Securities Board announced today that it joined a taskforce of state securities regulators and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a $106 million restitution settlement with Vanguard Marketing Corporation (VMC) and The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard). The...

The Texas State Securities Board announced today that it has joined a multi-state settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (Edward Jones) which will see Edward Jones pay $17 million in penalties for supervisory failures that affected main street investors. The four-year investigation was a...

Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles filed an Emergency Cease and Desist Order against Darrell Porter, a Minister from Killeen, Texas, and Eric Ture Muhammad, a purported “Wealth Minister” from Fairburn, Georgia. The order accused Porter and Muhammad of illegally and fraudulently offering...

Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles announced the Texas State Securities Board is settling claims with GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG, a German company purportedly operating in the fintech and banking industries, and GSB Gold Standard Bank LTD dba GS Partners. The settlement also names Josip...

Impersonating Texas companies, for example Tesla Inc., isn't the best of ideas— Emergency Cease and Desist Order. In an unrelated order, Masterworks Administrative Services, LLC, resolved its prior activities by agreeing to comply with securities law requirements and paying an administrative fine—...

Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles issued an Emergency Cease and Desist Order to halt a fraudulent MLM scheme that purportedly offered investments in cloud mining cryptocurrency. The order outlines the use of deceptive image and video manipulation techniques and the employment of actors to...

The Texas State Securities Board on May 9 approved the appointment of Cristi Ramón Ochoa as Deputy Securities Commissioner. Ramón Ochoa joined the State Securities Board in 2016 where she served as a staff attorney in the Inspections and Compliance Division. “Cristi has a wealth of experience that...

THE ORDER ACCUSES BILLIONICO CEO FRANK DEYLE OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF SWISS VALOREM BANK, AN ORGANIZATION RECENTLY NAMED IN A FINAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered an Emergency Cease and Desist Order to stop an international multilevel marketing...

Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered an Emergency Cease and Desist Order to stop a fraudulent securities scheme that allegedly spoofs an unrelated third party.

Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered a settlement in principle with a group of affiliated companies commonly known as Abra.