insider trading

INSIGHT: How Japan's securities watchdog found its...
Kenichi Sado, chairman of Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
With its stock in near free fall, the board of Japan's Nippon Sheet Glass met in August 2010 to weigh a couple of unpalatable options: suspend planned investments in key...
Insider trading scandal sees SMBC Nikko slash...
Lawyer Tomoyoshi Arita, right, chairman of an investigation committee for SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko President Eiji Watanabe hold a news conference in Tokyo's Kabutocho district on Aug. 7. (Hiroki Endo)
Brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities will penalize five senior executives after an insider-trading scandal that saw a former executive officer arrested and indicted.
ANALYSIS: Nomura’s future hinges on sweeping...
Kenichi Watanabe, CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc., front, bows when he announced his resignation over an insider trading scandal in a news conference on July 26. (Yusaku Kanagawa)
Financial regulators are voicing their skepticism over promises from scandal-hit Nomura Holdings Inc. to turn over a new leaf.
EDITORIAL: Financial markets must work on...
Kenichi Watanabe announced his resignation as CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc. on July 26 over an insider trading scandal involving tip-offs ahead of public share offerings by major ...
Watanabe's legacy at Nomura: Client exodus, falling ...
Kenichi Watanabe, front, and his successor, Koji Nagai, center, bow at a July 26 news conference after Watanabe resigned as CEO of Nomura Holdings. (Yusaku Kanagawa)
After Kenichi Watanabe became CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc. in April 2008, one of his first moves was to expand into Europe, a bold measure that led to a quick recovery in...
UPDATE: Nomura CEO resigns amid insider trading...
Kenichi Watanabe (Provided by Nomura Holdings Inc.)
Kenichi Watanabe, chief executive officer of Nomura Holdings Inc., resigned on July 26 to take responsibility for a series of insider trading scandals involving the nation's...
'King of Tokyo' dethroned by insider trading probe
Edward Brogan was Japan’s highest-profile hedge fund manager until he suddenly dropped out of view this month.
Nomura: Management to take responsibility for...
Kenichi Watanabe, chief executive officer of Nomura Holdings Inc. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Under a barrage of criticism from angry shareholders, the CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc. said executives will take some degree of responsibility for the insider trading scandals...
Insider trading: Ex-Nikko exec often called...
Eiji Watanabe, president of SMBC Nikko Securities Inc., apologizes on June 25 after a former executive was arrested on suspicion of insider trading. (The Asahi Shimbun)
The Japanese stock market has been hit by a series of revelations of insider trading, acknowledged by financial regulators as a rampant problem.
4 held on suspicion of insider trading
YOKOHAMA--Prosecutors on June 25 arrested a former securities executive, a company president and two others on suspicion of insider trading.
Nomura's Chinese wall offered no protection in the...
Nomura Securities Co.'s head office in Tokyo (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A chummy relationship between a manager and a former subordinate at Nomura Securities Co. apparently led to information on listed companies' share offerings being leaked to a...
Nomura admits involvement in 3 insider trading cases
Nomura Securities Co.'s headquarters in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Nomura Securities Co. could face an administrative punishment and a management reshuffle after the securities house admitted to being involved in three insider trading cases.
U.S. investor suspected of insider trading of TEPCO ...
The company's nameplate at TEPCO's headquarters (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan's financial regulatory authority is seeking U.S. assistance to pursue a suspected case of insider trading by a U.S. investor in Tokyo Electric Power Co. stock.
EDITORIAL: Fines for insider trading should be...
Fresh scandals over insider trading related to public share offerings by listed companies have hit the Japanese securities services sector. The latest scandals involve a major...
Senior official made questionable 8 million yen on...
Masaaki Kimura (The Asahi Shimbun)
A high-ranking industry ministry official arrested on Jan. 12 made a profit of more than 8 million yen (about $100,000) on shares in two major computer chip manufacturers,...
Official broke METI stock rules, but conviction may ...
Masaaki Kimura, 53, is accused of violating the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law. (The Asahi Shimbun)
Officials of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry expressed shock that someone so high up the ladder in the ministry would break so many internal rules about stock...
Senior industry ministry official faces insider...
Prosecutors appear set to slap insider trading charges against a senior industry ministry bureaucrat who was involved in the public bailout of chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc. in...
Nikko Securities officer suspected of insider...
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission is investigating an official of SMBC Nikko Securities Inc., previously known as Nikko Cordial Securities Inc., for insider...
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