Search Results for: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Wells Fargo Broker-Dealers to Pay $3.4 Million
October 17th, 2017
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it has ordered Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution to affected customers for unsuitable recommendations of volatility-linked ...
FINRA fines broker dealer $750,000
September 13th, 2017
FINRA Hearing Panel Fines C.L. King & Associates $750,000 for Negligent Misrepresentations and Omissions in Connection with Death Put Investments and AML-Related Violations The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that a FINRA extended hearing panel censured Albany, NY-based ...
FINRA Bars Former Morgan Stanley Registered Representative
June 2nd, 2017
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has barred former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney registered representative John Batista Bocchino for concealing approximately $190 million in Venezuelan bond trades from the firm, which had restricted such trading ...
FINRA Board approves proposals to strengthen controls on high-risk brokers
May 12th, 2017
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Board of Governors approved the next step in FINRA’s ongoing initiative to strengthen controls on brokers with a history of significant past misconduct and to ensure greater accountability for firms that choose to ...
FINRA Fines Deutsche Bank $3.25 Million
December 19th, 2016
FINRA Fines Deutsche Bank $3.25 Million for Deficient Disclosures Concerning the Operation of Its Alternative Trading System The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. $3.25 million for failing to provide ...
FINRA fined Credit Suisse Securities USA $16.5 million for AML and other violations
December 6th, 2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC $16.5 million for anti-money laundering (AML), supervision and other violations. FINRA found that Credit Suisse’s suspicious activity monitoring program was deficient in ...
FINRA Sanctions Merrill Lynch $7 Million
December 1st, 2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. $6.25 million and the firm will pay approximately $780,000 in restitution for inadequately supervising its customers’ use of leverage in ...
FINRA fines investment firm for $3.4 Million
November 23rd, 2016
FINRA Sanctions Oppenheimer & Co. $3.4 Million for Reporting Violations, Failing to Comply With Discovery Obligations in Arbitrations, and Other Supervisory Failures The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it has fined Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. $1.575 million ...
FINRA Fines Merrill Lynch $2.8 Million
October 19th, 2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Inc. $2.8 million for systemic trade reporting, Order Audit Trail System (OATS) reporting, books and records, and related supervisory violations that ...
FINRA advice to read your brokerage account statement
October 14th, 2016
Recently, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) imposed a fine of $850,000 on a firm with thousands of employees for failing to detect for two years that a single broker had taken more than $370,000 from five customer brokerage ...
