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The Justice Department's recent $16.6 billion deal with Bank of America over crisis-era mortgage fraud has raised fresh questions over a perceived lack of transparency in the settlement process.

After an advisor was terminated by his firm, the tussle over the departure contract had just begun.

PageOne Financial denies SEC charges that the RIA aimed to fund its own sale with commissions from advisor clients.

Schwab's unsuccessful $15 million claim against Morgan Stanley for poaching brokers shows real animosity between the firms, experts say.

Municipal bond broker-dealer groups have spent nearly $5 million trying to influence federal lawmakers in recent months, using in-house lobbyists as well as outside firms and campaign contributions to promote their positions on securities laws, tax reform, and regulation.

Michelle Smith explains the advantage of specializing in divorce planning.

A new report shows that auditors of brokers-dealers who were inspected last year continued to have a high number of problems with independence and audit deficiencies.

A set of mid-1990s recommendations aimed to reform Wall Street's culture. They didn't, however -- and the real losers were investors.

A federal jury found an investment advisor liable for fraud after he allegedly enticed his former brokerage clients to transfer their assets from Wedbush to his RIA practice.