• The UK Financial Conduct Authority has secured a confiscation order requiring convicted investment fraudster John Burford to repay £655,951.40, allowing almost all victims of his £1 million investment scam to recover their money. At a hearing held at Southwark Crown Court on 27 July, the......

  • A former New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate and Republican political figure has pleaded guilty to operating a $50 million investment fraud that prosecutors say funded his personal lifestyle, political ambitions and his wife’s luxury skincare business instead of the early-stage companies investors believed they were backing.......

  • Three cryptocurrency investors have sued Apple after losing a combined $1.8 million in Bitcoin to a counterfeit Sparrow Wallet application that allegedly passed through the company’s App Store review despite Apple’s longstanding claims that the marketplace is carefully curated and secure. James Ramirez, Christopher Ellis,......

  • The semiconductor selloff that began on Wall Street on Monday spread across Asian markets on Tuesday, but it was not triggered by a single earnings miss or disappointing forecast. Instead, investors are beginning to question whether the hundreds of billions of dollars being committed to......