Goldman, Citadel Securities Pay SEC Millions Over Trade Labeling

  • Wall Street giants each reached settlements with SEC on Friday
  • Goldman fined $6 million; Citadel Securities pays $7 million

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citadel Securities each reached multimillion-dollar settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday over how they labeled millions of trades.

Goldman agreed to pay a $6 million fine for sending inaccurate or incomplete trading data to the SEC on at least 163 million transactions over the course of a decade. Meanwhile, the SEC said that a coding error at Citadel Securities led to short sales being labeled as longs, and vice versa, and that Ken Griffin’s market-making firm would pay $7 million.