FINRA

The reps join a slew of others who chose not to cooperate with FINRA investigations — at least 21 since 2017 — and therefore agreed to an automatic ban.

Dean Mustaphalli "deceived the clients that trusted him," New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said.

The ability for consumers to access and share data in one place could transform financial advice.

The firm provided some 82,400 initial and annual privacy notices to customers that were not compliant and in some cases provided no notices at all, FINRA claimed.

Investment advisors and broker dealers have different “relationship models” with clients, the chairman says.

A pen and paper or more advanced methods of documentation can save financial advisors from a variety of troubles.

How technology could continue to disrupt financial planning.

The regulator will save members tens of millions of dollars by helping them verify advisors’ Form U4 financial disclosures, Robert Cook says.

Firms are required to verify their procedures are reasonable, but they also must tailor their supervision to individual advisors, and sometimes that means crafting higher level of oversight for some people.

Banks such as UBS aim to offer money managers refuge from jittery markets by combining bonds with more exotic options.