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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East: 1,929 cases from 40 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), Hongkong €875,254 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Hang Seng Bank Limited €8.1m 39 % · 1 case
- Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft €2.62m 13 % · 1 case
- EFG Bank AG €1.19m 6 % · 1 case
- Xinhu International Futures (Hong Kong) Co., Limited €1.06m 5 % · 1 case
- Kylin International (HK) Co., Limited €968,909 5 % · 1 case
- Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch €925,553 5 % · 1 case
- UBS AG €883,431 4 % · 1 case
- Instinet Pacific Limited €875,254 4 % · 1 case
- China Industrial Securities International Asset Management Limited €761,367 4 % · 1 case
- China CITIC Bank International Limited €485,944 2 % · 1 case
- 8 more€2.68m
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €875,254 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
8 Sep 2025 Instinet Pacific LimitedSFC: HKD 8m fine for Instinet Pacific over unreported cross trades €875,254
The SFC publicly reprimanded Instinet Pacific and fined it HKD 8 million because, between December 2012 and March 2018, the broker failed to report 8,817 pairs of cross trades between clients and an affiliated company, worth around HKD 25.9 billion, to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong as required by Rule 526 of the Exchange Rules. There were neither internal rules on reporting such trades nor any review of the reporting process.
Every reporting obligation towards an exchange or regulator needs written ownership and regular checks that reports are actually being made.
Reporting obligations towards the exchange in securities trading
- Authority / court
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), Hongkong
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- Section 194 Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571); Rule 526 Rules of the Exchange (SEHK); General Principles 2 und 7 sowie Paragraph 12.1 Code of Conduct
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Mitigating circumstances
- The firm ceased the relevant trade flows on its own initiative and cooperated with the SFC.
- Published
- 8 Sep 2025
Original amount 8,000,000 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Sep 2025.
- SFC reprimands and fines Instinet Pacific Limited $8 million for failure to report cross trades to the Stock Exchange (25PR140) Press release of an authority
- Statement of Disciplinary Action – Instinet Pacific Limited Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link