FINRA

Brokers were worried a new rule intended to lighten their responsibility to monitor advisors' side hustles would ironically mean greater supervision duties with RIAs.

A new proposal would allow firms to tack three additional months onto the amount of time they can place holds on the accounts of clients 65 and older in cases of suspected financial exploitation.

Fewer U.S. adults have non-retirement investment accounts than three years earlier, and many retail investors struggle with understanding fees and fraud risk.

Under a new proposal, clients would have to opt in to receiving account statements and other documents in paper form.

A FINRA arbitration panel finds a "pattern" in JPMorgan's attempts to blacken the regulatory records of advisors moving to rival firms.

American Portfolios Financial Services, a formerly independent brokerage now under the Osaic umbrella, was accused of not being forthright about its handling of clients' uninvested cash.

For the first time in an annual compliance report, FINRA devotes a section to AI risks, including from third-party vendors and scammers.

Henry Robert Gleckler IV's dispute with JPMorgan over his alleged solicitation of his former clients now heads for a resolution before a FINRA arbitration panel.

Nearly all the brokers who dropped their FINRA registration in the wake of tougher rules kept their insurance licenses, according to newly published research.

Matthew Madera has become the latest former JPMorgan private client advisor to be sued after leaving for another firm. In a recent stipulated order, he agreed to stop soliciting former clients until the dispute can be resolved.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is probing broker-dealer firms involved in taking small foreign companies public, the latest effort by a regulator to crack down on pump-and-dump schemes.

Also this month in our disciplinary digest, a now-barred 'problem broker' for Stifel lands his former firm another hefty settlement, and an advisor is accused of fraud for trying to poach clients from his old firm.

Also this month in our disciplinary digest, a frequent CNBC analyst is sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors, and a former Fidelity advisor faced charges after borrowing millions from clients.

The question has turned into something of a paradox because of the related, but different, rise of RIAs and how that has affected independent brokerages.

The tide is in the wirehouse's direction in its fights with advisors who've left for rival firms.

The mega bank had tried to resist going before FINRA arbitrators by arguing its brokerage unit wasn't involved in an $8.4 million fraud scheme. The victim and a federal judge disagreed.

The win for Morgan Stanley comes after a recent string of victories against brokers who left for rival firms. But as the outcome in the JPMorgan case shows, firms don't always prevail.

Morgan Stanley is under investigation by FINRA over how it vetted clients for money-laundering risks, adding to existing federal scrutiny of its wealth-management and trading units.

Chuck Roberts, whose recommendations of structured notes landed the St. Louis firm a nearly $133 million arbitration award, was kicked out of the industry after ceasing to cooperate with a regulatory investigation.

The accusations led to the end of 16 years at the firm.