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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Chicago Board Options Exchange
Current Parent Company: CBOE Holdings
Penalty: $2,468,410
Year: 2006
Date: December 4, 2006
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Violation Description: Nineteen exchanges and trading firms agreed to pay a total of about $46 million to settle litigation alleging they violated antitrust law by restricting the listing and trading of certain options contracts. Court documents did not specify how much each defendant would pay. Here we assume they each paid an equal share of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Southern District of New York
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:99cv962
Case Name: In re Stock Exchanges Options Trading Antitrust Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: options exchange
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