RBC Wealth also reorganized its private client group and appointed a new division head, and UBS named a market leader for its San Francisco business.

Jim Cahn of WEG says there will always be room for small RIAs. But firms intent on growth will increasingly have to turn to larger partners for help with estate and tax planning, back-office support, and marketing and client referrals.

Manish Dave, who has been with the firm for 18 years, oversaw a headcount that was formidable but stagnant in recent years.

After helping to lead a crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry and Wall Street's use of off-channel communications, Gurbir Grewal is leaving the SEC.

Industry experts and analysts take comfort in the firm's choice of Rich Steinmeier as interim CEO and say they see little reason to expect serious disruption.

Agencies including FINRA and the SEC are looking at new risks posed in common use cases of AI — meeting dictation services, chatbots and using data to hyper-personalize ads.

The former Wells employee says he was basically forced to quit after a series of fumbles by the firm cost him his book of business and brought his pay down to "minimum wage level."

LPL directors terminated CEO Dan Arnold's employment after an outside law firm found comments he had made to employees had violated the firm's code of conduct.

The change, one among several at the firm's top, follows on a year that executives have deemed one of the firm's most difficult in decades.

The 17-person Canell Group joins Wells Fargo's offices in New York.

Leaders at FINRA, Fidelity and ACA Foreside discussed the steps they take to safely market new investment products like ETFs and cryptocurrencies on social media and other platforms while staying in compliance with advertising regulations.

Along with the big recruiting deals, Dynasty and Gries Financial Partners shook things up at the executive level.

At FINRA's advertising regulation conference in Washington, D.C., leaders said they are looking at how broker-dealers are using large language models and AI translation services.

Plaintiff Stephen A. Greco has the opportunity to file an amended complaint, but a federal judge took his allegations of conspiracy to task.

LPL, JPMorgan and Bank of America Private Bank were also among the recruiting winners this week.

Most firms are limited liability corporations these days, but a significant chunk of older firms are c-corporations. Experts share the key factors involved with the options.

An industry recruiter sees RBC Wealth Management's appeal as lying in its international presence and clean reputation.

Regulators allege First Horizon Advisors violated Reg BI when it continued recommending complex investments even though it was struggling to bring over customer information from a recent acquisition.

Financial advisors from three non-giant firms shared how they can find their edge in a channel of wealth management that's increasingly fragmented toward the top.

Jim Rourke and Michael Liu will serve as co-heads of private client partnership development, linking Bank of America's investment bank, Merrill and the firm's private bank.