Morgan Stanley

Current and former clients claim personal information, including Social Security and passport numbers, have been exposed due to negligence.

The wirehouse added a pair of veteran advisors from its rival after picking up several new hires in recent weeks.

The Minnesota-based Falldin-Mattson Group was previously at Morgan Stanley.

To thwart a multifactor verification system, he once used a victim’s home phone to authorize transactions.

Non-disclosure agreements and mandatory arbitration are part of what critics call a machine of silence that shields bad behavior from becoming public.

The group had been at their previous firm for 14 years.

Wealth management profits fell, but a steep rise in transactional business offset some of the decline.

Fixed-income trading revenue almost tripled, driving a 73% jump in total trading that surged past expectations.

Advisor Antoine Souma, who leads the group, had been with the wirehouse for just four years.

One recruit left an IBD to join the wirehouse.