Regulation

Santander is the latest firm to get hit with regulatory penalties related to the sale of Puerto Rican municipal bonds and close-end funds.

Commission signs off on FINRA's proposal to compel brokers to include a link to the database on their websites after abandoning some of the more contentious aspects of the rule.

Tax planning will increasingly become an operational risk for asset managers, according to new research report by PwC, a risk spurred by operational and compliance demands.

The independent advisory world is a fragmented industry, which is not conducive for advocacy in policy-making.

Promoting long-standing tax-managed funds to advisors will first require an educational effort about tax strategies on the part of asset managers.

An ex-wirehouse advisor sought damages for libel and other misconduct against Merrill.

Fiduciary proposal opponents suggest that robo advisors may be unregistered investment companies, in violation of both the Investment Company Act of 1940 and SEC regulation.

Morgan Stanley's move to push more cases to an arbitration system of its choosing tilts the playing field against advisors and curtails their rights, opponents say.

Blackstone Group is expected to pay $39 million to settle claims stemming from a U.S. regulator's probe into whether private equity firms put their own interests ahead of investors'.

The world’s largest issuers of ETFs are holding talks with stock exchanges and market-makers to avoid a repeat of the issues that plagued ETFs during Aug. 24’s market turmoil, according to five people with direct knowledge of the matter.