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Entrepreneurial advisors are leaving the wirehouses and constructing new business models the industry hasn't seen. But before joining these trailblazers, other advisors should think about what it is they want to change.

The industry talks a lot about transparency, but issues get tricky when you’re working with families, money and personal relationships.

The new "SendMyDocs" app helps clients who live far from their bank or credit union as well as the advisors trying to serve them.

After leaving LPL for NFP, Washington Wealth brings its breakaway advisor total to seven for the year thus far.

UBS AG said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating its dark pool since early 2012, the first time the Swiss bank has acknowledged the probe now in its third year.

Regulation is the biggest driver of change for mutual funds and money market funds, according to a new EY survey, and it may have consequences beyond higher costs. Heightened regulatory demands anticipated to fall on managers and their products means increased costs of doing business. For financial advisors, this may mean higher costs of products for their clients or, if costs become too high, potentially avoiding such products in favor of more passive investment methods. …

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Community banks need to rethink their technology and marketing to ensure they are snagging a piece of the millennial generation. Big banks have the lead in reaching this demographic, but they are vulnerable, experts said.

Barclays saw a rise in the number of U.S. shares traded in its dark pool, paring some of the losses in the two weeks after it was sued by New York for allegedly lying to customers of the venue.