FINRA

The free trading app’s breakneck growth hurt the same small-time investors it sought to empower, FINRA says.

The penalty stems from lapses tied to a March 2020 outage and allegations that the fintech firm let thousands of clients trade options that might not have been appropriate for them.

Thousands of clients paid sales charges that they wouldn’t have incurred had they held the pricey alternative products until maturity, according to FINRA.

Beverley Schottenstein steps back into legal combat against her grandsons — two brothers — after a deal to hash out an agreement over their mishandling of her $80 million fell apart.

The agency is headed back to the drawing board with its proposed revision of how brokers get complaints removed from their record.

The judge declined the barred rep’s request for sentence reduction based on his “severe” bipolar disorder and restitution efforts.

The barred ex-rep funneled clients’ money into a shell company he falsely called a sub advisor, according to investigators.

The barred ex-Mutual of Omaha rep stole from 27 mostly older fellow members of his church, YMCA and local business organizations, investigators say.

Advisors with disciplinary histories who keep other registrations after leaving FINRA BrokerCheck are much more likely to commit infractions, researchers say.

After an initial phase of good-faith exams, regulators expect to see how firms have operationalized those programs.