Financial crimes

Although planners may not have fiduciary duty to protect older clients, many see it as an ethical obligation.

Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, and Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, introduced bipartisan legislation to put more responsibility on accountants and other financial professionals to safeguard against money laundering and other crimes.

The changes reflect an effort to give penalties more teeth, similar to what the regulator did last year with Robinhood's $70 million fine.

State regulators' enforcement actions for 2021 reveal which scams pose the greatest risks to investors.

After the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cracked down on a $2.8 billion-asset bank, industry observers expect more scrutiny of the ties between banks and financial technology startups.

When an elderly person is scammed, a new study shows, many Americans blame the victim. Advisors can help break that habit.

Scam artists are increasingly targeting elderly Americans for their retirement savings. But the warning signs can be obvious, if investors — or their advisors — know what to look for.

Twenty months after a strange attempted theft outside of a New Jersey home, authorities arrested the 28-year-old employee of a Red Bank-based firm.

Catch up on the bits of wealth management news you might have missed over the last week.

These are the bits of news you might have otherwise missed this week in wealth management.