Wash trading enforcement actions

This library records 90 enforcement actions tagged wash trading. Wash trading is buying and selling the same asset with no change in beneficial ownership and no market risk, so that a trade prints publicly and creates a false impression of activity or price.

Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the wash trading technique page.

Actions

90

Total penalties

$460m

Median penalty

$600k

Largest

$325m

Criminal parallel

22%