Bank Channel

The Short Hills, New Jersey-based bank will look to Cetera to accelerate the program's growth.

The advisor claimed the bank placed a slanderous statement in his form U5, preventing him from finding a new job.

The two broker-dealers have a new owner eager to grow the businesses considerably.

The bank, which has about 1,000 financial advisors and relationship managers in the U.S, will drop the agreement on January 8.

The rep used his own money to pay the customer the interest she expected on a brokered certificate of deposit.

Brian Lamb succeeds Mike Michael who was named to the post in May.

The bank chose to integrate its program after its acquisition of 18 New York-based branches of First Niagara Bank last year.

Exclusive: The No. 4 IBD unveiled a new bank-based team even as its competitor began revealing its retained firms under the acquisition.

Lagging rival broker dealers, the firm recruited the president of RIA firm Priority Financial Group to lead the financial institutions division.

The bank's retail brokerage business sold customers shares in mutual funds with front- or back-end sales charges when they were eligible for Class A shares that waived the upfront sales load, FINRA claimed.