Questions tagged [finance]
Questions involving fungible assets -- especially securities and loans (mortgages, debts, etc.).
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Is transferring money from a company where you're a director to a company where you're an employee considered money laundering?
Say you are a full-time employee of company A, and company A providing services to company B, where you are a director and a shareholder. Company B transfers money to company A. I've been told it can ...
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Does a financial company have to disclose information about my account when requested?
I have submitted a complaint to a finance company (vehicle) who completed an investigation where I am unhappy with the outcome. I requested all evidence they have regarding my claim including ...
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My friend has alot of cash (about 55K in $100s) on hand and is afraid to put it in a bank. Should he be? [closed]
My friend was paralyzed from an injury when he was a teenager (about 30 years ago now). He has amassed about 55K in cash from being a small time marijuana dealer. He literally keeps it next to him at ...
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Out of country court case related to employee / employer financial claim
I am a contractor in Ontario, Canada. However, I am not a citizen of Canada or the US. I am contemplating a court case against my contract-employer in the US, regarding non-payment of my salary ...
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Is it illegal for a European to be paid for giving financial advice to people in the US?
I live in a country in the EU in which giving financial advice, such as stock tips, and getting paid for this is perfectly legal for a private individual.
Let's say I have a friend in the US who asks ...
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Can the CEO of KODK be found guilty of insider trading?
Recently the American legacy film company KODK announced a deal with the US government to manufacture generic pharmaceuticals domestically.
This announcement sent the price per share for the company ...
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What is the limitation on publishing / promoting stock positions and also having a vested interest in those stocks?
On a popular internet forum I follow for amusement, people will commonly announce their stock options positions before they make them so that once the positions succeed, they can brag while having ...
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Legality of Chaumian e-cash
In the 1980s, David Chaum, a cryptographer, came up with micropayment system that would achieve cryptographic transaction privacy. Later, in the 1990s, he attempted to build this system, but it did ...
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Harper v. IRS and the third-party doctrine
On tax day 2020, plaintiff James Harper accused the IRS of obtaining his cryptocurrency transaction history from Coinbase without a warrant.
Harper is claiming the IRS violated his rights under the ...
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Why is a company allowed to change the number of shares it’s divided into after its IPO?
I read that even after an IPO, a company can change the number of shares that it’s divided into based on a board vote. What’s to prevent them from arbitrarily increasing the number of shares to raise ...
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If a Politician uses an Organized Crime Syndicate to extort a Business, is the Politician guilty of the same crime as the Syndicate?
In the United States, let's say you have:
A generic POLITICIAN of any type
A generic ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE of any type
A generic BUSINESS of any type
If an ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE pressures a ...
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Refused Financing for new car loan due to charge off from bankruptcy 11 years ago
State of Michigan
My wife filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy 10 yrs ago and one of the debts was with Ford Motor Credit.
She has good Credit now and I have okay credit. We wanted to purchase a Ford ...
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Must French financial institutions know by law the salary of their customers?
Must French financial institutions know by law the salary of their customers?
One of my French banks is asking this information from me and claims they have to do so by law (and I have "declare sur l'...
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Is there any limit on how much bonuses can be given before filing for bankruptcy in the United States?
I read on https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/investing/hertz-bankruptcy-executive-bonuses/index.html (mirror):
Hertz paid out millions of dollars in bonuses to its executives just before its bankruptcy ...
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Does the CFTC have authority over all forms of “prediction markets”?
I've been reading over previous cases that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have brought up against organizations like InTrade. From what I can tell, InTrade was brought under scrutiny ...
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Could you theoretically sell financial assets in the US without coming under the jurisdiction of the federal government?
So let's say you were some financial market that operated solely in a US state so all of your transactions never crossed state lines. Would federal government agencies like the Commodities Future ...
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In Canada, is there a requirement of when a Money Services Business (MSB) and their client entity must enter into a service agreement?
I hope the question in the title lends itself to an answer. In case more clarification is required, please do not hesitate to comment below.
Some background: In Canada, an MSB is required to verify ...
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Can the use of proprietary aggregations of public data be insider trading? [duplicate]
I work for a company that collects and analyzes publicly available social media data (among other things) to help with marketing / market research problems. We have business relationships with most ...
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Delivery of oil bought through futures contracts
What happens if someone is forced to take physical possession of many barrels of oil that they bought on the open market, but they have no storage space left to put it?
ETA: In jeffronicus answer ...
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Negative pledge covenants
I am a layperson trying to better understand negative pledge covenants.
Is following a correct example of a negative pledge covenant? John borrows $500 from Jane. Jane makes John sign a contact ...
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Financial settlement - Consent order in England
I have just applied for my decree absolute today and my wife has said she will complete the consent order papers and statement of information in a few days. Can i submit the consent order in court ...
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Can a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform invest in non-Singaporean businesses
So, I'm studying Singaporean regulations on Crowdfunding and P2P Lending platforms, and went through the MAS FAQs on the subject:
MAS Response to Feedback Received - Facilitating Securities-based ...
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Can an invoice factoring company operate abroad?
Premise:
Invoice factoring is a transaction in which a factor (or factoring company) purchases invoices from a business.
The transaction involved is literally purchasing receivables and, for ...
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Where do I go when police refuse to investigate someone who made purchases with my debit card?
A few months ago, my debit card information was stolen and used to purchase some computer equipment in the state of Oklahoma, but the perpetrator lives in the state of Florida and I live in the State ...
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If I discover information about a company through personal investigation can I act on it without being guilty of insider trading?
Let's say I'm a skilled PI who has, through detailed investigation followed a paper trail back and discovered that Soylent Green is people! (err..spoiler warning?)
I am now aware of information that ...
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Are there any legal risks to transferring money to another country for an F-1 student?
Let's assume that your dating an F-1 visa student, who is supposed to be financed by her parents in her home country to go to school in the US. She is actually getting money through other means (...
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Stock options and Insider Trading
Maybe I don't understand insider trading laws, but they seem somewhat unreasonable to me.
Lets say I'm a software developer, and I accepted stock options as part of my compensation. In the course of ...
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Why is Front Running markets not treated as insider trading?
Front-Running is described in the book Flashboys and relies on an information advantage, that is apparently provided by the exchanges to a select few.
Is said practice somehow different from ...
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How are employer pay statutes enforced against offending employers?
An employer recently made some strange demands as a part of a job offer. On advice from The Workplace Stack Exchange I'm going to look for work somewhere else, but I'm concerned the employer is ...
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What was wrong with the 2010 Flash Crash?
While looking for recent market crashes, I came upon 2010 Flash Crash. However, I am unable to understand what wrong the alleged perpetrator, Navinder Singh Sarao, did.
Entering an "order to sell ...
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How do I write an agreement between a token issuer and token bearer?
I'm making a decetralized blockchain app that lets users create tokens and sell them to other users with the agreement that the issuer will repurchase the tokens at the bearers demand. So its pretty ...
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Can I legally guess my customer's new credit card expiry date?
As a merchant, I offer online subscription services to my customers. Often, my customer's credit card will expire, despite having an active subscription service to my product.
Is it legal for me to ...
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Can a couple be charged for spending $120,000 deposited to their bank account in error?
A couple is being charged for spending $120,000 which was deposited to their account in error. This is in Pennsylvania, USA.
The facts are presented as follows: One day, couple wakes up to $120,000 ...
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What does upon conversion mean?
What does it mean when an investor say "I will give you $100k in exchange for 10% equity upon conversion"? What does upon conversion exactly mean in layman's terms?
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Is internet tracking “public info” for insider trading purposes?
Suppose I own a search engine. I look at my server logs and see that the query "how to fix exploding engine" is very popular in the area around Tesla headquarters. Would it be legal to act on this ...
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Would using a StableCoin bypass the “Money Transmitter” laws in the US?
I'm considering a startup that allows news/content creators to collect nano-payments (~$0.01) for their content. Since transactions of that size are unreasonable to charge individually by Stripe/etc, ...
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Definition of privileged information in investor law
Person X makes a scientific discovery about some new metallic alloy. She then reasons that as a result of its applications, the market for some other metal will drop. Is she allowed to short the ...
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Is a monthly Patreon donation\subscription, a contractual obligation to pay someone?
Let's say I have a prepaid card with a balance of 0$ and I am subscribed to a Patreon user for the recurring monthly donation of $50. Let's say I remain subscribed to the Patreon user for 10 months, ...
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Schwab 401k 'hacked'; somehow they added/linked an unknown bank account and transfered out ~10% of my balance!! How
I recently received a couple of 'notification' emails from Schwab re. the approval/completion of various changes I supposedly requested to an old 'inactive' (past employer) 401k account, including:
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How is a US political campaign supposed to verify that donors from abroad are US citizens?
According the US laws, only US citizens may contribute financially to political campaigns - especially presidential campaigns.
Suppose you are running a campaign. How are you supposed to verify that ...
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Can Trump legally sell stocks on Friday, tweet about imposing tariffs on Sunday and then buy more of the stocks back on Monday?
Trump could have made a lot of money by selling stocks before tweeting about imposing tariffs on China and then buying more of them back when the price of the stocks has dropped. Would this fall under ...
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Student Loan from years ago pops up and is taking my salary
Summary: For decades I had my student loans paid by automated payment from my bank without a problem; just take it out of my bank and there's a small benefit in interest for it.
Recently, my ...
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Are companies allowed to trade securities based on internal user data?
Take a company like Google, that has access to real time information on what billions of people want at any given moment, their plans for the future - not to mention the entire email archives of ...
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Investor liability for investee actions?
The recent Supreme Court ruling in Jam v. International Finance Corporation kind of surprised me, as a layperson, since I had not imagined that banks were liable for their investees' actions ...
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Do you owe money to a company who is trying to charge a disabled/expired credit card?
A disposable credit card company from the US wrote 'recently' on their twitter
Canceling a subscription can be difficult, time consuming, and frustrating. Or it can be as easy as clicking a button ...
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Are marketplace lenders subject to fair lending laws?
Are 'marketplace' lenders, such as those using Lending Club or Funding Circle, etc., subject to fair lending provisions, such as the Equal Credit Opportunity Act or the Fair Lending provisions of the ...
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Bank is not depositing my promotion bonus
I opened a bank account in response to a promotion in a big bank (I'm in the US). Originally it was saying "if I keep my money (50K) for 60 days, I get $600". The agent at the branch didn't say ...
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Could leaking insider information eliminate insider trader concerns?
Suppose I possess some non-public information about Company X. I want to trade Company X's stock for reasons unrelated to the information (e.g. I believe the stock market as a whole is going to tank ...
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Is there a difference in “termination of employment” qualifying event trigger between group health insurance and 401(k)?
My job uses a Professional Employer Organization to handle payroll and benefits. This is a coemployment relationship, not temp/staffing, nor subcontract. The PEO is the issuer of my W-2 and listed ...
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Would there be any legal risk to informing bank that you have been given an account number your believe is compromised?
This question was asked on the financial stack exchange. The basic premise is that someone is giving another individual 'their' account number and telling the individual to take money out of it to ...
