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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) €883,431 100 % · 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 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | €883,431 |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
20 Oct 2025 UBS AGUBS: HKD 8m fine for years of misclassifying professional investors €883,431
UBS AG was publicly reprimanded and fined 8,000,000 HKD in Hong Kong because, from 2009 to July 2022, its automated process for classifying professional investors rested on a misinterpretation of the minimum portfolio requirement for certain joint accounts. From July 2018 to July 2022 alone, 560 joint accounts were misclassified; securities of 23 of these accounts were lent in 9,190 lending transactions without valid authority, and 94 accounts carried out 500 transactions in products reserved for professional investors. In August 2021 the regulator had already fined UBS 9.8 million HKD, among other things for similar failings.
Automated client classifications must be validated against the wording of the rules, especially for special cases such as joint accounts.
Correct classification of professional investors and distribution restrictions
- Authority / court
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- s. 196 SFO (Cap. 571); s. 4 Securities and Futures (Client Securities) Rules; s. 11(3A) Securities and Futures (Contract Notes, Statements of Account and Receipts) Rules; Securities and Futures (Professional Investor) Rules; Code of Conduct
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Repeat case
- yes
- Mitigating circumstances
- Look-back review and remediation after self-reporting, cooperation, commitment to an enhanced complaint handling procedure for potentially misclassified clients.
- Published
- 20 Oct 2025
Original amount 8,000,000 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Oct 2025.
- SFC press release 25PR167: SFC reprimands and fines UBS AG $8 million for professional investor misclassification (20.10.2025) Press release of an authority
- SFC Statement of Disciplinary Action zu 25PR167 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link