This month, OTC Markets Group published the list of downgrades from its OTCQX and OTCQB markets and Caveat Emptor Designations for June 2019. This list is part of OTC Markets’ initiative to disseminate, on a recurring monthly basis, a list of downgrades from the OTCQX and OTCQB markets as well as a separate list of Caveat Emptor Designations that have
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Last week, The Securities and Exchange Commission charged an Arizona-based attorney and a Missouri-based agent of microcap shell companies with securities fraud and registration violations. According to the SEC’s complaint, from February 2015 to April 2017, attorney William Scott Lawler engaged in schemes to fraudulently transfer control over the shares of two publicly-traded shell companies to his client. The SEC
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Last week, The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against five foreign traders for executing illegal matched trades in the stock of Medico International, Inc. (MDDT). The SEC also obtained an emergency court order freezing assets held in brokerage accounts of the defendants, including approximately $144,000 that otherwise could have been wired offshore, and hundreds of thousands of shares of
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Recently OTC Markets & IR Magazine published a new white paper about smallcap corporate governance. Often associated with larger firms, corporate governance is just as important for small and micro-cap companies. By adhering to high governance standards, small-caps are better placed to achieve their goals and attract new investment. Appropriate internal controls of a smallcap look different from those of
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On Monday, the SEC announced a Staff Roundtable on Short-Term / Long-Term Management of Public Companies, Our Periodic Reporting System and Regulatory Requirements. One of the potential topics for consideration presented by SEC Chairman Jay Clayton is; “The potential for certain categories of reporting companies, such as smaller reporting companies, to be given flexibility to determine the frequency of their
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Last Friday, the SEC suspended 57 OTC Securities due to lack of current and accurate public information concerning the securities. Each of the issuers was suspended for at least one of three reasons; 1) the issuer failed to respond to SEC staff’s inquiry about its operating status, did not have an operational address, or failed to provide its registered agent
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This week, The Securities and Exchange Commission charged David M. Loflin for his role in a pump-and-dump scheme in the stock of Greenway Design Group, Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona company that was secretly controlled by Loflin’s now-deceased business partner. According to the SEC’s complaint, in 2013, Loflin helped his business partner gain control of Greenway, using a front company to
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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged fifteen individuals with acting as unregistered brokers or aiding-and-abetting such activity in connection with Intertech Solutions, Inc.’s fraudulent and unregistered securities offerings. The SEC’s complaints allege that Alexander Bevil, Richard Bohnsack, Daniel Broyles, Charles Davis, Michael Duke, Joel Duncan, Martin Lewis, Mark Parman, William Roth, Paula Saccomanno, Kenneth Shelton, Billy Ray Statham,
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Last week, OTC Markets Group published the lists of downgrades from its OTCQX® and OTCQB® markets and Caveat Emptor Designations for the month of March. This list is part of OTC Markets’ initiative to disseminate, on a recurring monthly basis, a list of downgrades from its respective OTCQX and OTCQB markets as well as a separate list of Caveat Emptor Designations that have occurred in
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On March 20th, 2019, Martha Miller – SEC Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation delivered her first speech as the SEC’s new Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation. Full speech below… Martha Miller Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation Remarks at 1 Million Cups of Coffee, PlexPod in Kansas City, Missouri March 20, 2019 Thank you, Melissa [Miller] for that
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