30/01/2012 - Compliance Officer £130,000 Fine

Compliance Officer £130,000 FineCompliance Officer £130,000 Fine.

Alexander Ten-Holter, trader and former compliance officer at Greenlight Capital, has been fined £130,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to question and make reasonable enquiries before selling Greenlight’s shareholding in Punch Taverns ahead of an anticipated significant equity fundraising by Punch in 2009.

Last week, David Einhorn, manager of Greenlight Capital, was fined along with the fund a combined £7.2m over the allegations of market abuse.

The FSA has also fined Caspar Agnew, a trading desk director at JP Morgan Cazenove, £65,000 for failing to identify and act on a suspicious order from Greenlight to sell Punch shares that allowed the firm to be used to facilitate insider dealing or market abuse.