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Tobi Carter is a Checkpoint Editor/Author with the Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Business. In this position, she serves as in-house SEC expert. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Ms. Carter was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Law Practice Group at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP for nearly five years. Before practicing at Certilman Balin, Ms. Carter was an attorney for two years in the Securities Litigation Group at Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P. Prior to that, she was Associate Counsel for two years at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Ms. Carter earned her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2001, where she served as Senior Staff Editor of the Environmental Law Journal. In 1998, she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A., cum laude, in Legal Studies. Admitted to practice in the State of New York, Ms. Carter is a member of the American Bar Association, as well as its Business Law Section.

Craig Schmell says the firm terminated him because of alcohol and drug addiction issues he had 30 years ago.

John R. Beaty is general manager of excise at Avalara Inc., where he oversees the tax technology company's automated excise tax products.

The fraudulent investments advertised guaranteed returns of up to 8% annually, the regulator says.

The declines, he says, were the result of a widening gap between U.S. and German bond yields triggered by the crisis in the eurozone.

Lorraine Chapman is senior director of healthcare for Macadamian.

Morgan Stanley’s CEO believes the Fed will hike interest rates three more times this year.

Advisors say they are becoming more dissatisfied with the way wirehouses are managed.