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Hugh Kennedy

Hugh has 35 years of expertise in the financial services industry, with publishing and legal research experience spanning the public company, investment adviser, broker-dealer, credit union and banking industries. As a senior-level manager, award-winning writer and conference speaker, he has covered key issues stemming from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Department of Labor, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, NCUA, banking agencies, Capitol Hill, NASAA and other regulators. He has developed and created a number of new publications, online databases and value-added portals serving the needs of financial industry professionals.
B-D has 90 days to certify, among other things, that it has remediated issues tied to the evaluation of disclosed outside business activities
SRO to file new proposed rule changes with the SEC tied to making e-delivery the default method for delivering customer communications
Arbitration cases filed on or after March 30 could be accelerated for parties who qualify based on their age or health condition
Broker-dealer charged with failing to reasonably supervise its employees' business-related text messages
FINRA exec shares details on different types of AI agents that the financial services industry is beginning to implement
SEC Commissioner Peirce calls out the "potentially transformative innovation" of tokenization, which "may soon come" to the municipal securities industry
Firms will pay $1.1 million fine for having supervisory systems that were not reasonably designed to achieve compliance with Securities Act section 5
FINRA cautions that firms should recognize, and take action to address, red flags of improper unregistered distributions of securities
Study billed as offering "insights into the attitudes, behaviors, knowledge and experiences of U.S. retail investors"
Study reveqals that just over a third (34%) of the U.S. population has investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or other securities outside retirement accounts
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