{"id":313,"date":"2016-11-12T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=313"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:12:46","slug":"beware-the-binary-option-trading-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/2016\/11\/12\/beware-the-binary-option-trading-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Binary Option Trading Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 10, 2016, the SEC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/pressrelease\/2016-236.html\">announced charges<\/a> against an Israeli-based firm related to its sale of binary option trading.\u00a0 The SEC fined the firm more than $1.7 million for failing to register the binary options as securities, failing to register as a broker-dealer for its sales of binary options to U.S. investors, and for misleading investors in its disclosures related to the risks associated with binary option trading.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with this enforcement action, the SEC also issued an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/investor.gov\/additional-resources\/news-alerts\/alerts-bulletins\/investor-alert-binary-options-websites-may-be-used\">Investor Alert<\/a>\u201d on the same day, warning potential investors that many binary option trading contracts are not properly registered with the SEC and may be associated with fraudulent investment schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 10, 2016, the SEC announced charges against an Israeli-based firm related to its sale of binary option trading.\u00a0 The SEC fined the firm more than $1.7 million for failing to register the binary options as securities, failing to register as a broker-dealer for its sales of binary options to U.S. investors, and for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/2016\/11\/12\/beware-the-binary-option-trading-contract\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware the Binary Option Trading Contract<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliance","category-enforcement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdia.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}