It’s been a long tail for the firm that began with the 2016 revelation that employees had opened millions of fake accounts to meet sales goals.

“The bank had better tools and systems to detect employees who did not meet unreasonable sales goals than it did to catch employees” engaging in misconduct, the regulator said.

The FTC wants buyers and sellers to identify their largest shareholders, the extent of their influence and any communications they’ve had, sources say.

The bank's former chief executive will pay a $17.5 million penalty and be banned from the industry.

FINRA blocked the influential advisor and wealth management entrepreneur on one case, but an arbitrator backed him on another.

Although the federal penalty was axed for those who failed to register for a plan, some states will continue to impose the coverage mandates.

The technology provider has become a leading data aggregator. But questions have surfaced about its use of customer data.

The SEC examined approximately 2,180 RIAs in 2019.

Trade groups warn that a proposal could end commissions in the state and play into a "fractured" regulatory environment nationwide.

The potential for higher taxes next year may accelerate deals.

SEC-mandated disclosures for dual registrants could put clients off brokerage options, some suggest.

From closed-end funds to Reg BI, here's what could be playing out this year.

While some tax-planning tasks can be time-sensitive, the challenge is to tackle the others that aren’t in a calculated fashion, an expert explains.

The Secure Act was designed to expand retirement savers’ options but it has subsequently all-but-eliminated the stretch IRA for beneficiaries. It's on advisors to make clients aware of the major change.

The advisor was charged with overbilling clients by hundreds of thousand of dollars and diverting millions from the company’s payroll to his own account.

In the 1960s, iconoclastic reformers started a campaign to kill fixed brokerage fees. Today, we’re witnessing the logical culmination of that effort.

The firm’s supervisory systems did not identify brokers who recommended clients engage in potentially unsuitable early rollovers of UITs, the regulator said.

Contributing to these accounts makes sense for clients who anticipate higher tax rates in the future.

“Wells Fargo does not appear close to putting its Washington troubles behind it,” Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg wrote in a note.

The top brass being unaware of this stuff happening on their watch doesn’t inspire confidence.