SEC: Enforcement

Twice, Contrarian purchased offering shares from an underwriter participating in a follow-on or secondary public offering of stock despite causing at least one advisory client ...

The Reg BI violations affected about 5,900 retail accounts, causing the clients to pay $936,000 more in expenses for substantially equivalent funds than they otherwise ...

The Influencer’s planned involvement and the details of the anticipated licensing arrangement were not disclosed to the independent trustees of the VanEck ETF Trust for ...

In the new legal cases targeting advisers, the SEC cited their responsibilities under Advisers Act section 204 (reports by IAs) and the books and records ...

Commission staff uncovered Cambridge’s misconduct after commencing a risk-based initiative to investigate the use of off-channel and unpreserved communications at broker-dealers. Cambridge has initiated a ...

During the time period that NMIS failed to maintain and preserve off-channel communications that its personnel sent and received related to NMIS’s broker-dealer business, NMIS ...

Oppenheimer’s supervisors, who were responsible for supervising junior employees, routinely communicated off-channel using their personal devices. In fact, senior management, managing directors, and other Oppenheimer ...

The federal securities laws impose recordkeeping requirements on broker-dealers and registered investment advisers to ensure that they responsibly discharge their crucial role in our markets.

These proceedings arise out of the widespread and longstanding failure of USBI employees throughout USBI, including at senior levels, to adhere to certain of these ...

The Firms failed to keep for prescribed periods, and furnish copies of, such business–related records as necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for ...