Compliance

A proposal by regulators to revamp the way banks must measure risk on certain assets is alarming many community bankers, who argue it will raise capital requirements, increase compliance costs and curb lending.

When do you have to be forthcoming about a civil action coupled with a bankruptcy?

Revision aligns with FINRA's new rule on suitability.

How often have sponsors had to intervene to prop up money market funds?

The regulatory board has revised its fees for various services in order to keep up with resource demands.

Hundreds of delinquent medium-sized RIAs must register with their respective states by today’s SEC deadline or face the prospect of being de-registered as early as Sept. 1.

Hundreds of medium-size RIAs are procrastinating and face the specter of de-registration by the SEC if they do not file for state registration by Thursday.

New Rule G-43 requires that broker's brokers make reasonable efforts to obtain fair and reasonable prices when conducting secondary-market "bid-wanted" auctions.

A new research initiative from the Insured Retirement Institute will promote streamlined licensing and registration processes.

As regulators and investors impose increasingly stringent transparency and reporting requirements, asset managers face new challenges in all aspects of data management.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro answered Paul Scott Stevens’ volley with one of her own in front of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate.

Gurudeo “Buddy” Persaud believed the earth’s gravitational forces impacts stock prices and that, under the influence of the moon, people tend to feel more dejected and sell off securities. In return, the SEC charged him with fraud.

On June 21, 2012, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro today answered Paul Scott Stevens’ volley with one of her own in front of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate.

The CFP Board permanently revoked the right of William B. Smith of Grafton, Mass., to use the CFP designation after investigating allegations that he fraudulently used $1.2 million in client’s money for his own benefit and moved $25,000 from another client to his own account.

On June 21, 2012, Paul Schott Stevens, president and chief executive officer of the Investment Company Institute, gave his perspectives on money market reforms today in front of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in Washington, DC.

The regulator announced Thursday it fined Merrill for “supervisory failures” and “for failing to provide certain required trade notices.” Merrill has provided $32 million in remediation, plus interest, to the affected customers.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Volcker Rule to ban proprietary trading would have helped to prevent the $2 billion credit loss at JPMorgan.

On June 20, 2012, if money market mutual funds shift to a floating net asset value, impose redemption holdbacks or seek additional reserve capital through fees, corporations say they would stop investing in these vehicles and most likely reduce or fully liquidate their holdings, according to data released today by the Association for Financial Professionals.

In the puzzle of oncoming financial regulation, how to properly oversee a firm’s liquidity is one of the largest pieces regulators are now working to get right.

James E. Putman, the founder and former CEO of an Appleton, Wis., investment firm, was disciplined by the CFP Board for allegedly accepting $1.24 million in kickbacks for steering clients’ money into dubious investments.