SFC Freezes Brokerage’s Client Account Amid Suspected Market Manipulation

[kreslik.news]

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has today issued notices to both Interactive Brokers and Interactive Brokers Hong Kong, prohibiting them from dealing with, or processing certain assets held in a client account which the watchdog suspects are the proceeds of market manipulation and/or fraud, conducted in conjunction with unauthorised internet trades in hacked securities accounts at other firms between 7 and 15 October 2015.

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The notices prohibit both companies from dealing with the suspected proceeds or processing of any instructions ... (read more)