If you provide individual brokerage accounts in participant-directed retirement plans, expect the plan sponsor to approach you and seek certain information about your fees and ...
Firms are grappling with a provision in FINRA's new suitability rule that categorizes an explicit recommendation to hold securities as one that must comply with ...
If you allow reps to use a block trading account, make sure you adequately monitor the trading in it. Gaps in one firm's oversight enabled ...
Gary Goldsholle, vice president and associate general counsel at FINRA,is headed over to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, where he will be general counsel. At ...
FINRA last week fined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. $500,000 for supervisory failures that allowed for widespread deficiencies in connection with filing hundreds ...
Sometimes silence isn't golden. Keith Daubenspeck listened as his co-founder of Advanced Equities ($867M in AUM) in Chicago, Dwight Badger, told lies during two sales ...
The SEC has extended until Sept 30, 2013 its temporary registration rule for municipal advisors (BD Week, Sept. 24, 2012). The action buys the Commission ...
FINRA officials issued a clear warning last week that they're looking very carefully at the incentives firms provide reps to sell complex products. They're also ...
The SEC has identified some aspects of broker-dealer operations that it sees as common weak spots in controls aimed at preventing insider trading. The observations ...
Inadequate supervisory procedures was a key flaw at Goldman, Sachs & Co. that resulted in the firm and one of its former vice presidents violating ...