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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.
The myth has been busted—yet again. Dawn Bennett, the former radio host of Financial Myth Busting with Dawn Bennett, who for years operated a financial ...
Relying on your firm’s employees to self-evaluate and self-report the potential receipt of material non-public information and failing to adopt P&Ps ensuring they do so ...
Investment advisers and broker-dealers aren’t doing enough when it comes to protecting seniors from financial fraud, a new NASAA survey reveals. Three-fourths of the respondents ...
Many asset managers, broker-dealers and alternative managers appear to have a lack of confidence when it comes to their firms’ cybersecurity protections, according to the ...
Strong stock market performance in the past year has propelled the aggregate regulatory assets under management of SEC-registered investment advisers to a new record high ...
The SEC’s ReTIRE initiative and the work of the Commission’s broker-dealer task force is continuing to bear fruit—this time in the form of another enforcement ...
Consolidation is the hallmark of two recent actions taken by FINRA. The first will ease reporting burdens and compliance costs for broker-dealers, while the impact ...
Needed new guidance on coming fixed income confirmation disclosure requirements has been released by FINRA. The guidance—in the form of 45 FAQs—is aimed at helping ...
FINRA’s focus on high-risk brokers and the payment of arbitration awards by firms and individuals continues at the SRO. On the heels of a July ...
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