The co-founder and former CEO of Dallas-based logistics software startup Slync Inc. lost on Monday an appeal to undo convictions for misleading investors and misappropriating company funds.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched a pilot program to allow the use of some digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ether and Circle’s USDC stablecoin, as collateral in derivatives markets, CFTC says in a statement, citing Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham.

Nomura Asset Management Co. plans to relocate dozens of staff from its Tokyo headquarters to offices in cities such as London and New York to develop its homegrown talent for investment and sales operations.

GenOn Holdings Inc. and Strategic Value Partners LLC executives and board members allegedly conducted a “brazen scheme” to circumvent its subsidiary’s right to acquire a valuable power plant on the verge of its bankruptcy.

A personal driver working for a hedge fund manager posed as an investment professional to convince three investors to let him manage their money, resulting in their combined losses of over $1 million, the SEC said.

The shareholders of a telecom company must capitalize all payments made in connection with a bankrupt VoIP company they acquired, the US Tax Court said Monday.