Enforcement

Nearly 100 clients Mata allegedly defrauded for $14.5 million have received paltry restitution after exhausting every possible method.

The wirehouse is the latest firm to have its financial advisors called out publicly by the regulator for disregarding warnings about holding the ETNs for a long time.

Here's what you missed this week in wealth management.

Former clients of Isaiah L. Goodman shared the financial losses and other harmful impact of the $2.3-million scheme.

During his tenure as New Jersey’s top lawyer, the state proposed tougher rules for investment advisors and joined other states in suing financial firms.

The Advisor Group IBD missed 55 alerts suggesting suspicious disbursements by clients of Hector May, according to the SEC.

Thousands of clients paid sales charges that they wouldn’t have incurred had they held the pricey alternative products until maturity, according to FINRA.

The nonprofit's response to the scathing criticism of the Independent Task Force on Enforcement was to protect its own executives at the expense of benefiting investors, writes Allan Roth.

The company is making many employees sift through years of text messages on personal devices and set aside any related to work to ensure U.S. rules on keeping copies of business communications are met even after many months of remote work, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

The case against Centaurus Financial comes after the industry and consumer advocates decried the previous administration’s approach for different reasons.

The judge declined the barred rep’s request for sentence reduction based on his “severe” bipolar disorder and restitution efforts.

The barred ex-rep funneled clients’ money into a shell company he falsely called a sub advisor, according to investigators.

The barred ex-Mutual of Omaha rep stole from 27 mostly older fellow members of his church, YMCA and local business organizations, investigators say.

Advisors with disciplinary histories who keep other registrations after leaving FINRA BrokerCheck are much more likely to commit infractions, researchers say.

FINRA arbitrators ordered the wealth manager and closed-end funds manager to pay damages as it resolves outstanding claims stemming from the island’s fiscal crisis.

After Brooklynn Chandler Willy recommended that the clients invest $100,000 into an LLC, its principals were arrested on federal fraud charges, the filing says.

The giant retirement plan recordkeeper’s BD didn’t adequately file suspicious activity reports for more than three years, according to investigators.

A barred broker’s alleged version of the “infinite banking” strategy recommended that clients liquidate their 401(k)s or IRAs to buy variable annuities.

Anthony Diaz began the sentence immediately after a hearing in which a victim said he should “rot in hell” for the felonies.

The wealth managers paid victims restitution prior to one barred rep’s guilty plea and another one’s sentencing.