Ralph Ortega is a former editor-in-chief of On Wall Street.
The group is the latest to defect from the British bank's wealth operation before its impending sale to Stifel.
Thomas J. Buck, an ex-Merrill Lynch and RBC advisor who once oversaw $1.2B in client assets, consented to FINRA findings that he "willfully committed fraud."
A recruit from the banking channel at Wells Fargo moves to the regional's independent broker-dealer.