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Willy Walker is chairman and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm. Walker & Dunlop is one of the largest lenders to multifamily owners in the U.S.

Distributors may be demanding more support in the areas of investor education, risk management and governance.

The broker is the fifth advisor this month to part ways with Raymond James.

Tom Wamberg is CEO of Wamberg Genomic Advisors, a company dedicated to making genomic-based programs and services, not typically covered by health insurance.

The broker-dealer alleges Jason Kirkland violated company policy, used confidential information and broke his 12-month non-solicitation agreement, among other claims.

Clients who buy and hold the products in their retirement accounts may get a nasty surprise, said one of the SEC’s five commissioners.

Amanda Mich is a senior recruiter at UHY Advisors, Inc., and has been supporting the firm for the past six years. As an internal UHY recruiter, Amanda fills tax, audit, assurance, advisory, HR, IT, administrative and marketing positions for all of the offices across the country. This includes sourcing, screening, assessments and interviewing.

Its purchase includes the manager’s mutual fund and ETF businesses.

Paul Daley joined as Managing Director of BondWave’s Information Lab after serving as head of execution and account management for SunGard’s Fox River Execution where he was responsible for overseeing trading activities in the US, Canada and Japan. In addition to managing the firm’s strategic relationships, Mr. Daley published papers on high-frequency trading, spread time series studies, liquidity modeling, dark pool trading and the nickel spread pilot program. He was also responsible for designing new algorithmic trading strategies and trading suites. Prior to joining Fox River, Mr. Daley was head of quantitative trading at UBS O’Connor, a multi-strategy hedge fund. He was also head of derivative and portfolio trading sales at Merrill Lynch and served as the global head of equity indexing at ABN Investment Management (now a part of Northern Trust Global Advisors). Mr. Daley graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and received his MBA from the University of Chicago with a concentration in Finance.

Eric Goldberg is a partner in the Consumer Financial Services, Data and Technology practice at Akerman LLP and a former managing counsel for regulations at the CFPB.